I haven’t even started my chemotherapy medicine, and I’m already getting nightmares.
The other night it was three suns in the sky at once. Look up and there they are. That was rather unsettling.
And last night I dreamed I was reading in bed when suddenly what looked like the black shadow of a very large rat ran across my legs and off the edge of the mattress. I woke up fast! For a moment there I didn’t realize that it was a dream.
Do I now look forward to more nights like this? How do you make it stop?
Wow, I once had one of those 3-suns-in-the-sky dreams too. But come to think of it, if you’ve been reading about Richard III, your brain may be remembering Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3, act 2, scene 1, where the York brothers see three suns in the sky which then coalesce into one. Edward chooses to see this as a positive omen about himself, Richard, and George taking over for their slain father and the three sons/suns becoming one glorious Yorkist sun. (Of course my dream, like yours, was a nightmare, but then again, these three sons of York didn’t do so well in the end themselves.)
It’s been a very long time since I saw that play; but maybe somehow that scene got implanted in my deeper memory.
But wow! We had the same dream. Maybe Shakespeare had it, too.
P.S.–The dream had nothing to do with the old TV show, My Three Suns.
Can you prove it wasn’t related to My Three Suns? 🙂
Well, I never watched the show… Maybe Phoebe did.
I had to quit watching it when my sunburn got out of control. 🙂
As for what to do about nightmares, or any other disturbing or baffling dreams, I usually neutralize them by sitting up and doing some word or number puzzles. They refocus the brain and give me a sense of being in control, if only over the puzzles.
I do alphabetical lists (“how many famous Romans can you name?”) tp get back to sleep.
Once on chemo drugs I am having bad dreams like never before. Occasionally a good one but still in an intense context. Draw near to God is all I know to do and advise.
Gee, I can hardly wait…
BTW–did you have chemo pills, or did they inject it into you?