Do Dreams Change RealitY?
Sometimes dreams give you options. My dreams lately have been warnings. I don’t speak to certain cousins or aunts and uncles. They pop up in my dreams recently, but only to antagonize me. My dream-relatives also give me the option of being someone else, or finally breaking out of my slumber. I have to get violent with my cousins, aunts, or uncles, or let the dream play out to get it over with. Those are the only two options. I can’t open my eyes until the dream feels done.
Recently, I had a dream about a cousin that I don’t have a relationship with anymore. In the dream, my cousin kept cursing at me, saying little things under her breath–like, how even if I don’t answer her I should because she is the priority, no one gets to ignore her even if she seems like the problem. In the dream, my brother was ignoring her, and she was throwing playing cards, some sort of paper with a QR code on it, napkins, and even cups—all while pushing him. It got to the point in my dream where I had two options: one, hit her or two, open my eyes. I wanted to wake up, but in the dream I chose to hit her. Then when it was time to wake up, I was up and couldn’t go back to sleep after. Do dreams mess with your head so bad that you can’t go back to sleep afterwards?
Good dreams are hard to retell after you wake up, yet a nightmare is sometimes easier to retell. I can explain who was in the dream, what happened, where we were, and why everything happened. Some people have told me that if you can retell your dream word for word, the event in your dream will happen in the future, or sooner than you think. That’s why my mom has banned me from family functions; because of my bad dreams, she has a feeling that things will go south.
My mom isn’t one to dream the way I do, but she and a couple of my aunts told me that having a dream of that sort is a disaster. One of my aunts knows the meaning of dreams, and she told me that a dream like that always comes true in real life. With there being a strained relationship on my mom’s side of the family pertaining to certain family members, she fears I am going to be the violent person that I was in my dreams. Which is the opposite of who I am in real life. My mom is afraid that if I have an encounter at a family function, the energy at the party will change into something negative. She calls me a time bomb because it takes a lot for me to get angry, and hearing the way I got angry in the dream actually scares her more than it should.
These dreams feel like warnings, showing an alternate reality of what could potentially happen at a family function with the wrong people in attendance.
But to me, they’re just dreams.
