posted July 06, 2007 07:53 PM         

They started throughout high school when I was getting ready to graduate and move to a different city and start a whole new life. It was a very turbulant, expansive and exciting time for me. What happened in the dreams was pretty simple. There would be a storm coming and my family in my house refused to listen to me when I told them that it was important to get into the basement. I would run around the house and try to save all of our pets and tried to look after everyone. Sometimes the tornado would come over the house and sometimes it wouldn't. Usually one cat (the same pet cat in every dream) would run away. The last of these dreams I had in a series a different cat ran away.

Then I didn't have them for a long time and recently I've been having them, though not as often as I did before. As time progressees the dreams have become less about me trying to save everyone else, to me trying to save myself. They don't involve pets anymore, because I don't live in the same house.

I had one of these dreams last night, and it was different than all of the others. The last few of these dreams involved a larger house instead of my childhood house. It usually housed a lot of people that I knew in the past and currently. I was very calm in the dream, which is a rarity. I noticed that a storm was coming and hurried to the basement where the tornado eventually came over us and people were screaming (which I have never heard before in a dream) and I was being blown around. This time I didn't panic and woke up in a state of relaxation.

Another thing that was different about this dream was the fact that I looked out towards the horizon before the storm came and a gorgeous rainbow, very oversized and surreal was extending out of the clouds. And as the storm got closer the rainbow disappeared, but I wasn't sad about it.