Dreams

 The first dream that I remember, and one of the scariest ever (at the age of 3 anyway), had to do with going to an airshow.  My family and I watched various planes fly over to our amusement.  The star of the show was, of all pilots, Snoopy.  He hopped into his Sopwith Camel, sped down the runway, and took off into an immediate loop-to-loop.  I was amazed at his ability to fly.  At the bottom of the second loop he landed.  Next thing I knew I was in the passenger seat of the plane.  He took off again and to my terror started his loop-to-loop maneuver again.  My hands gripped on the leather padding edge of the cockpit fuselage cutout as we reached the apex of that first loop.  As we came out of it I was grasped by the relief of our landing only to find out he was going to do it again.  What the hell, Snoopy??  He landed at the bottom of the second loop, I jumped out with my heart racing and shot into the arms of my bemused mom.  I immediately woke up after that with my heart actually racing. 

One of my first books, and possibly the reason for my dream.

You're a complete bastard, Snoopy!!!  But I still love you.

Last night I had the craziest dream.  I dreamt that all mechanical/electrical devices across the globe stopped working at the same time.  There were planes actually dropping from the sky, cars careening into each other as well as pedestrians, and trains flying off the tracks.  To make matters worse, whatever was causing this started to take it out on individuals as well.  Meteors started falling from the sky directed towards individual people or groups.  At one point I was the target of such harassment.  I broke away from the group i was with and headed toward a shallow cave.  After hiding away for a while the protagonists turned their sights elsewhere allowing me to leave my sanctuary in an attempt to determine what the hell was going on.  As is typical, I awoke before solving the mystery.

I have these types of dreams about 4 or 5 times a year.  They typically involve some sort of invasion-like scenario, sometimes involving aliens, others times something from the unknown.  I suppose Freud would say that I am lost somehow in the real world and am seeking a solution to an unknown problem.  I would say that I'm just having some really freaky dreams that are actually fairly invigorating both mentally and physically (in dream-state anyway).   What are some dreams that you occasionally have that affect you somehow in the 'real-world'?