Dream Frequency and Intensity

Every once in a while I'll clearly remember what I dreamt the night before. For some inexplicable reason though, for the past I don't know, year or two, I've had a recurring dream/nightmare about tornadoes. God only knows what sparked that. I've never actually seen one IRL (*knocksonwood*) but I've always been wary of any severe weather (I'm scared of thunderstorms too ).

Anyway, the dream/nightmare usually consists of me at home with friends or family (the specific people differ from dream to dream) hanging out, doing whatever, until I look out of one of the windows to see a funnel cloud coming directly at us. I panic, and tell everyone that we need to go to the basement. We do that, and hide in the large closet, but then I realize that I need to round up my pets and put them in there too. Unfortunately, I always seem to forget some...

Anyway, the tornado comes, but I wake up before it really causes any damage. I'm always freaked out by it though, mainly because I don't know WHY I'm having such dreams! So weird!

Lately the dreams have changed a little, to where I might be in someone else's house or at work or something, but still.. tornadoes still come.

When I was little, probably around 3 or 4, I started having dreams where I was in a store with my mother and I fell on my back and couldn't get up, much like a turtle. I don't know what provoked those, either. But when I wake up, I feel like it was real so much that for a moment I believe I can't sit up in my own bed.

Dreams are weird.

Jam it back in, in the dark.