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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2013-06-27 09:26 am
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Uneasy nights

Other people's dreams/ nightmares are awesome.

Mine was the perennial recollection that I'd killed somebody and only just now recalled the fact after suppressing it for years. In this case it was very specifically a male friend of my brother's (unidentified except as such) whose throat I slashed from behind, and that it happened the autumn after my mother died. As ever, it was so convincing-- 'oh my god I'd completely blanked that from my memory!'-- that I had to run through the incidents of that fall before I'd tentatively believe that no, it didn't happen and couldn't have happened and John never had a friend who was murdered. What sealed it, I suppose, was the fact that I was missing the usual component of these dreams-- OMG what do I do with the body?!

[identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com 2013-06-28 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I think I spent five solid minutes staring at the ceiling in horror one morning, frantically thinking "How the hell did I forget I had a BABY?!" and then reality kicked in. Thank goodness.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2013-06-28 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
That's the essence of it right there.