Fear of heights and machine guns.

I need to write. It's been so long and something is bothering me. I've had two completely different dreams and they both end up with me getting shot with an automatic weapon in my legs. There is never any blood. In the last dream, I picked the bullet out of my leg myself and it was no bigger than a BB gun bullet. I was up on the window ledge of a building, what seemed like 50 stories high. I don't remember why I was up there but there were Army men, several of them, on the building next to the one I was on and they shot at my with machine guns on turrets. I knew I wasn't the one they were meaning to shoot, I knew they were looking for someone else but they didn't think twice and shot at me. It woke me up after I picked one bullet out of my leg.

 The first dream was a little scarier. It started with, believe it or not, Carrie Fischer (as Princess Leia) leading me on what was like some kind of highway of branches across a forest of trees. We were with a group of explorers that discovered a new planet. I know...nerd. Anyway, it was kind of dark and pretty foreboding, doesn't sound like it now, but it was. A few more weird things happened, like when I spotted a chain link fence in the wilderness and was confused because it was supposed to be a new place but there were cheap chain-link fences everywhere, all around. A few more things happened, I don't know. Then I remember it was two girls I didn't know, Liz & me all sitting in the front of a car. Liz and I were looking at the internet on her phone, looking up some clothes or something. There were four men, one with a machine gun, three were doing something in a red truck, like selling drugs or loading something. I was trying not to pay attention because I didn't want them to notice us. Him having the gun wasn't that alarming to us, like it was something sort of normal in the place in my dream. Anyway, as they were all getting in the truck the man with the machine gun shot at all four of us but only hit my legs. I knew he had only hit my legs and was praying that he would stop shooting so only my legs would be hit. I was also hoping that Liz didn't get hit or she only got hit in her legs, too. I woke up a second later feeling really panicked.

Both dreams were really disturbing and dark. Even during the dream there was a lot of fear and heaviness. I looked it up online, just googled it actually, and there's a ton of crap about dream interpretation and you can't rely too much on any of it, but all the websites pretty much said the same thing. Getting shot in the legs specifically can mean a feeling in a lack of independence, like not being able to stand on your own feet. It can also mean vulnerability, fear of attack. Shooting dreams in general can mean those things, too, but in a broader sense they can represent a confrontation in daily life, feeling of being persecuted, attacked or things like that. Blood represents a whole different thing, apparently, but I never saw any. Dying or thinking your going to die was also separate part of "shooting" dreams, but since I was shot in my legs I thought both times that I knew I would survive but it was going to be painful and scary. How fast it happened scared me a lot and is scary to think about. Someone shooting an automatic weapon at me, round after round, woke me up almost immediately both times. Anyway, in the end of it all, I think my mom making me watch 24 with her is to blame. That, or Adam leaving the tv on all night. Who knows what my subconscious is watching? So, dreams are interesting. I needed to get all this onto paper...keyboard. Ok, see ya in another 6 months, blog.

Edit, Edit, Edit... Because I just looked up what height, or fear of heights signifies, which were a big part of both of my dreams. It kind of all makes sense because fear of heights "supposedly" can signify being scared or incapable of reaching a goal or dream. Well, this makes sense, because as fun and important as it is to be there for a newborn/toddler's first year, etc, I still feel rather useless and unsuccessful business wise. I can easily pacify myself with reassurance from Adam and other people that raising a baby is so important, and I know it is. But maybe my subconscious isn't buying it. Just, maybe. That, or watching 24...could be that, too...