Wüsthof
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night from a dream so frightening and realistic that you can’t fall back asleep?
I usually don’t. I usually only remember the dreams I have during my one-hour nap on the train to work in the morning. But last night I went to bed just a little bit early and woke up around 3:30 from the most awful and realistic dream of my life.
In my dream, it was about 3:00 in the morning, and I woke up because I heard Data getting into something in the kitchen downstairs. I walked to the top of the stair bainster, peered into the kitchen and said “Data, what are you doing?”
But Data wasn’t in the kitchen alone. The light was on, and he was in there with some man, who was rummaging through our stuff. He saw me, and I ran back into my bedroom. I tried to call 911 but my phone wouldn’t connect. I ran to open the window and jump out but there were more men outside. Then the man came into the room with one of our fancy wüsthof knives from the kitchen.
It’s kind of humorous that I was dreaming about our wüsthof knives, because there is an ongoing joke between me and Steven, about how much he is in love with them. But it’s not funny when someone comes after you with one in a dream.
So in the dream, I had a knife too (I am not sure how, I don’t keep knives in my bedroom). Mine was more of a butcher’s knife, and his was some fancy curved knife. I struggled with the man and yelled at Steven to get out of bed and take the knife from the man. Miraculously, he was able to take it a way, and I pushed the man onto the floor and did that neck twist you see in all the movies that makes someone pass out. The whole time, I was frantically calling for Data, because I was worried the man had hurt him. Steven and I continued to try to call 911 but we couldn’t get through. Then I woke up.
The dream was so awful because it was in my house, and it was a culmination of all the fears I have rolled into one – house getting robbed, being threatened with death, someone hurting my cat, having to jump out of the window, using one of our precious wüsthof knives to shed blood, etc.
I knew I shouldn’t have watched any of The Punisher last night before going to bed.
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I always have the worst dreams like that. So realistic and scary that you could almost make a movie out of them. I sometimes wake up crying if I was crying in my dream. I know exactly how scared you must have been. Dreams like those always leave me shaken up for half the day after I have them. Mine were much much worse each time I was pregnant, but now I am back to the about once a week freaky dreams that scare me and make me never want to sleep again.
hahahaha…ok, I’m sorry, I don’t mean to laugh, but me and my husband have the same joke about our Henckles Knives. It’s his pride and joy and probably his favorite gift that I received at my wedding shower! He always tells me I’m not treating them right, whatever that means.
Hey killer, have you ever seen anyone that got the “neck twist” in the movies get back up?
i’m sorry you had such a bad dream!!! especially that it took place in your house!!! that makes it even worse!!! i’m just SO glad it was just a dream!!!! i hate dreams like that!!!
I have several times. One time, when I was living alone, I had a dream that some man was standing over my bed and was going to kill me. I woke up to find Katie standing over me, and I was holding her by the throat to keep her away and screaming bloody murder. I have a feeling I was making noise in my sleep, she got up to investigate, and that’s what made me dream of a man standing over me. I scared the crap out of both me and the poor dog, and I felt horrible for nearly choking her.
Poor Kim. 🙁 I hate those kind of dreams where I wake up with my heart racing and gasping for breath!
But I admit, I couldn’t get past your Wuhstof knives!! I’m so jealous, they really are the best knives! My chef’s knife is Wuhstof, but that’s all I’ve got…
tori – How awful! It sounds like you have it a lot worse than I do. I hate it when a dream makes me cry and ruins my whole day. I have heard that it is really bad when you are pregnant… I wonder why.
Gina (Mannyed) – Your husband sounds like Steven. I am usually not allowed to look at the knives. And the wusthof knives have their own SPECIAL area in the kitchen (they are mounted on a magnetic strip on the wall)- they are too good to be with the other knives!
Dad – No. Good point, but they guy in my dream was kind of still twisting and turning. Maybe I did the Vulcan Nerve Pinch?
CourtneyInControl – I hope it was a one-time thing!
Jenn – Poor Katie! Poor you! That is even scarier that you were alone. I wonder if there is anything I (we) can do before bed to prevent these awful dreams!
diane – Steven (and I) got three knives at the wedding, then his mom bought him 5 or 6 more for Christmas. HE. WAS. ECSTATIC. 😉
You are one messed-up little puppy. Jeez. I thought my dreams were bad.
Oog, that’s pretty frightening!
Not long ago (2 months?), there was a study released which suggested that our dreams are sometimes the result of our brain subconsciously training us for real-world events while we sleep. Heaven forbid you should ever need the “training” your dream gave you last night, but maybe it’s just the result of your subconscious, base desire for physical survival? (This theory opens-up all kinds of questions…)
I’m lucky I rarely have dreams like that… Although I did have a dream once about aliens trying to pump my brain for knowledge, which somehow ended in a panoramic shot (my dreams are often seen from movie-like perspectives) outside a space ship torn-apart by a giant nuclear explosion for no other reason than the brain-sucking machine broke on me (the last scene in the dream, which, strangely, was seen in 3rd person. Again, when I dream, I dream in CinemaScope).
Make of it what you will, but it was scarier at the time than it sounds… 😛 Hope you sleep better tonight!
kapgar – I know 🙁
E – Hmmm, I hope I don’t have to use the training in real life! But I CAN imagine aliens coming to pump your brain for knowledge! HA HA!