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Topic: Airplane!
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Everlong
Knowflake Posts: 577
From: Southeast Florida
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted January 24, 2005 08:20 PM
 
That's a great movie. But anyway. Something peculiar has happened to me this week. On four seperate nights, I've had four dreams that either involved airplanes or airports. The weird thing about is that I NEVER have recurring-themes in my dreams. Like, ever.Dream #1: I'm in a spacious plane, and someone next to me says that you have to pay to use the bathroom. Then the plane starts plummeting and stewardesses are rushing around in a panic and strapping throat belts on us. Dream #2: This one was really weird. I nearly miss an airplane, and I'm rushing all over Madrid (I think?), and through the airport. Dream #3: I'm going to an airport with my grandmother and someone else, and we crash and we're half-hanging off a cliff, and people just drive by laughing and pointing. Dream #4: I'm standing outside of my deceased uncle's apartment complex, talking to two guys from my school, telling them about the above dreams and how peculiar they are, when a plane comes by and crashes a mile or two away from us, a big explosion, and one of the guys puts his arm around me and tries to reassure me that it wasn't a plane explosion. I'm thinking that these dreams might be a by-product of a recent intense phobia that I've developed of airplanes, since this winter break I went overseas to Spain, my first time in a plane in five years. But it's just so weird, this is the first time ever that I've actually had a sort of reocurring dream. ------------------
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Ra
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posted January 25, 2005 04:15 AM
Interesting dream sequences, Everlong, especially that last one. You may be right abou the phobia thing - I'll give it some thought and get back to you. Why the recent intense phobia development?  IP: Logged |
Everlong
Knowflake Posts: 577
From: Southeast Florida
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted January 29, 2005 10:46 PM
I think it might be a combination of two things. Not long after the last time I was on a plane before this trip this winter, I formed a big anxiety disorder that I had to get meds for, and since then, I've been okay, but a pretty paranoid/anxious person. Also, it's a big control thing. In a car, I have control over what happens to me. I can jump out of it at anytime that I want to. In a ship, there's so much technology now that even if it does start sinking, passengers can get off safely. But in a plane, I have no control whatsoever of what happens to me. I'm in a big tube flying 30,000 feet above the sea, at five hundred miles per hour, and if something goes wrong, I can't do anything. I can't get out, I can't take the steering wheel, and no one can really catch us, can they? I know that I'm more likely to be killed by a coconut than in an airplane crash, but I still got extremely scared on airplanes on this recent trip.IP: Logged |
Ra
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posted February 01, 2005 04:42 AM
Well, Everlong, you make a convincing point. Makes me feel kinda phobic about it myself.
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Ra
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posted February 03, 2005 02:56 PM
So, if the airplane dreams are about anxiety concerning control, was there something going on around the time of the dreams in which you felt a lack of control? Something which may have triggered an anxiety/control reaction?How long ago was your trip to Spain? IP: Logged |
Everlong
Knowflake Posts: 577
From: Southeast Florida
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted February 05, 2005 08:51 PM
We left there about three weeks ago. Hmm, actually, I can think of an area of my life that I'm not in control of. I live with my grandmother, and she's having a lot of health problems, and it's like, I don't have any control over what's going to happen to her, and I can't help her, and there's nothing that I can do, etc, etc. IP: Logged | |
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