Tornadoes Blow – By Donk
Everyone has recurring dreams, right? Well one of the things I seem to dream about over and over again are tornadoes. They’re always pretty creepy dreams too. Take the one I had last night for example:
I’m asleep and I wake up to the house rumbling. I look outside the window and see a massive tornado twisting around (the tornadoes in my dream are almost always the thin, snake-like kind). It looks like it’s coming my way, I get under a table, and when nothing happens I decide to leave for work.
As I’m driving to work in the rain, I hear on the radio that there’s a tornado in the area. I look to my right and sure enough there it is in the distance: another tornado. I hit the gas and rush downtown.
For some reason I end up on the top floor of a tall skyscraper with my sister. I keep looking out of the windows nervously. I see funnel clouds here and there, but no tornadoes. I turn on a 1930s style radio and they’re talking about a tornado that’s about to hit. I look out the window again and the tornado is bearing down on the skyscraper. I grab ahold of a piano and (this part I remember vividly) the entire building starts a slow sway back and forth. I can hear the steel creaking ominously. Then the tornado passes, and the top of the skyscraper slides off to reveal a couple of rescuers telling me to follow them. I tell them I can’t leave without my sister, but they say “it’s OK, she’s in the boiler room.”
That’s when the cruel alarm woke me up, signaling 8 more hours of fucking work and making me wish I was still trapped in my tornado dream.
I think I know why I have these dreams, although they could signify something else I guess. When I was about 4 or 5 years old, a vicious night time storm rolled through my neighborhood, bringing with it a small tornado (although I never saw it) that tore through some backyards, turning wood fences into kindling. For some reason I became obssessed with the idea of that tornado – it scared the shit out of me. So I think even to this day somewhere in the back of my subconscious my mind still obsesses over this one traumatic event.
Why couldn’t my recurring dreams be about something fun, like vagina, or Yahtzee? What about you guys, what recurring dreams do you have? Or, go ahead and take a shot at interpreting the meaning of Donk’s tornado dreams.
JANE – Hopefully it wasn’t some kind of premonition!
ISLAND PRINCESS – There is a Fall Vagina/Yahtzee league starting up in October. I’ll email you the info.!
ANGRY DESK JOB GIRL – What a coincidence – I named my junk Candyland. Maybe we should get together sometime.
I have dreams about tornados all the time. I am always trying to find shelter but I always seem to find my way to my parents basement. I also have dreams about my teeth falling out and snakes. The snakes one are always weirder than the others as that I am compelled to try and pick it up without getting bit. I never succeed.
MAD BLOGGER – ever spotted one? Did it terrify you? Do you have a storm cellar? Or do you live in a trailer and just drive your “home” away?
MELISSA – Dreams about your teeth falling out? UGH.
Guess you’re not rushing out to see Snakes on a Plane, huh?
I have had an obsurd amount of dreams where I am being chased by a serial killer. I am in a constant state of panic, but for some reason I have to stop running because I’ve got a laundry basket of clothes that HAVE to be folded and put away.
Vagina and Yahtzee? Hmm….Not a fan of the buh-gina, but I love Yahtzee! Can we change the vagina to weinner schnitzel? ;-P
~Shawnda~
As a child I had reoccuring dreams of being trapped in a car that was out of control, landing in a lake and being unable to get the door or window open to swim free.
As a teenager I often had dreams where I was being chased by someone/something evil through my school in the middle of the night.
Durring the early days of my divorce I had dreams of beating the shit out of the people who’d just destroyed my world- those are self explanitory.
Lately I’ve had dreams of being touched and turned on by someone behind me with a blue class ring on his right hand. I love that dream.
He was four years old!!! I bet if you had been the older brother at the age of four you would have laughed at me too. I must say that after I had that little chat with my Mom I stopped having the nightmares, so it must have been cathartic or something.
Oh, and you haven’t tried to stab me in any of my dreams yet, but if you cross over weilding a machete…I don’t think we can be friends any more.
But I really only have these types of dreams infrequently, and they seem to come up around rather anxiety-ridden times in my life. Otherwise I have fairly inane dreams about rather ordinary things.
Oh, and I heard somewhere that you tend to remember dreams if you wake up in the middle of a REM cycle as opposed to in between REM cycles. So if this is true, all of us who remember dreams vividly have sleep schedules that disrput our REM patterns.
disrput??? disrupt, biatch.
SHAWNDA – Oddly enough, this is extactly what Donk does to convince his wife to do the laundry.
STARLESS BLUE – Um, you’re not even going to believe this, but Donk has a blue class ring…and a long, luxurious Beard
PAGAN – 1. I was a perfect little brother.
2. You are such a perfectionist. 3. Thanks for once again enlightening our child-like minds
1. Huh, well, I will let Claire confirm or deny your claims to be a perfect little brother, but my comment was that I bet you would have laughed at me had you been an OLDER brother. It’s totally different.
2. Uh huh, well, isn’t that what editor’s are paid for?
3. Yeah, I knew you’d enjoy that. I actually thought about not including it, to avoid being made fun of…
I wouldn’t begin to analyze another person’s dreams. I can barely keep a handle on my own.
It is a very cool blog. I don’t have enough sense to be fearful of storms. I was always the last one into the storm cellar as the funnels dipped across the fields near our house when I was a girl.
Twister was one of my favorite movies. I would have made a GREAT storm chaser. Alas, they didn’t have that as a career option back then.
Here’s my recently rewritten Storm blog. Eighty Miles an Hour
I too have recurring tornado dreams. Mine are also always small skinny types (except once) and there are always more than one of them. According to my dreamer’s dictionary tornado dreams signify some sort of disruption in your life. Don’t know and don’t care how accurate it is…but it seems that my tornado dreams always seem to happen on the first wednesday of every month (when my county tests the tornado sirens) hahahaha
You know what Mom would say – you were obviously killed by a tornado in another life.
At least you aren’t dreaming about interpretive dance classes like I do.
Donkey we spotted one forming above us once when I lived in south Tulsa.
Never had a tornado get close enough to need to hide from one, but incredibily enough, storm shelters are RARE in Tornado Alley for some reason. You’d think it would be standard with every house sold! They tell us to go find an interior room with no windows and pray for the best.
I’ve only lived in a trailer ONCE for about 6 months in Texas. Wasn’t redneck enough to enjoy that!
Well, i don’t have tornado dreams and i grew up next to Xenia, OH. If you wanna talk scary tornado shit, look that place up and their tornado history. I came to love and accept the storms growing up.
my dreams are always about people dying, my parents, my boyfriend, myself. (yes i’ve been traumatized, my father, grandfathers and boyfriend have all passed away in the last 4 years. Separation issues? most definately)But never recurring. Alway different but along the same lines.
Good luck with those dreams, try running toward the tornado and see what happens, it is confronting a fear and could make it stop.
Do you ever realize you are in a dream before you wake up? i don’t. Wish i could.
CAROLYN – Great poem
DAWN – I thought you were going to say “when I get my Period.”
CLAIRE – Yeah, while flying a jet in the Korean War
FARMER V – I looked your dream up in a Dream Dictionary: There’s a pretty good chance that you’re gay
MAD BLOGGER – “Pray for the best.” Jesus, that’s some great, helpful advice.
I had a really vivid tornado dream recently too, Donk. I was even in a skyscraper. I could see 6 or 7 scary-ass tornadoes in the distance and they all came straight for the building I was in. It ripped the building in half and the rest was in slo-mo.. i clung to the corner of the building – hanging on the edge – until I was safely able to jump to the ground. Weird shit.
My dreams are usually either about me having amazing sex with a really hot guy or getting chased by somebody who’s trying to kill me.
I’m a really well balanced person…