Wierd Dreams

I started having weird dreams again - they always seem to be around 4 in the morning - I wake up terrified and I don't know what to do... this time I started singing praise songs, it's all I could think of and then I fell back asleep and had another one...

The first dream I was with my family I was wandering around and my shoe was falling apart and then we were in my dad's truck (everyone but my mom) and we were going somewhere up a mountain but got lost and couldn't turn around. We were going to fast and couldn't stop in time and went right over a cliff and smashed into the water below. It was so vivid I could feel us falling and braced myself for impact - I could see and feel the windshield buckling in from the water pressure. We were under water and it seemed like it was going to burst through at any second and we would drown - for the first time in a long time I thought of God instead of just nothing and swearing. All I could think to do was to sing and so I started to sing "My Redeemer Lives" and I knew all of the words... eventually I climbed out of the water and I found my mom - I started to cry, "We almost drown..." I woke up for real - very afraid.

The second dream was even more frightening. I dreamt that I was in my room and something picked me up off my bed with my covers still on - bundled up in them like a stork would carry a baby only I was trapped inside and I couldn't get out. It flung me up to the ceiling and I being held up there and then I started to get thrown around the room - I had to kick the wall with my foot to make sure that it was real and I could feel it - hard - I managed to push myself back into the center where I dropped back onto my bed. I woke up flat on my back with my arms spread out and my mouth wide open - what in the heck is with that?

Jaimie said that sometimes she gets nightmares when she sleeps on her back, but I never sleep like that - I only woke up like that. So wierd. Sometimes I don't know what to think of things like that - sometimes I forget to pray... but the night before last when this happened I remembered and started to sing... The Lord inhabits the praise of His people. If we only knew the real power that was in us because of Christ - there is no way a little thing like a dream could scare us. Nothing would - nothing does.