I had a dream that I was blind

In this dream, I am playing with a young child and showing her how to make crossed eyes.

Suddenly, I can't open my eyes. I struggle to open them with my fingers, but no no avail.

I stumble down the hallway and then, after a short while I start getting used to being blind and everything seems normal to me...

Never mind that I'm dreaming in color about being blind, and my brain just doesn't register the fact...

:eyes:

Then my eyes pop open; I'm awake, and feeling dumb as hell...

:blush:



All this because my wife left a box of bar glasses by the mill-post at the bottom of the stairs last night, and I nearly killed myself tripping over it, on my way to the kitchen, in the dark.

And she had the temerity to yell at me for not remembering that she had left the booby trap there...

:grr:

In terms of spatial orientation, I felt sure the basement stairs were directly in front on me. But I couldn't see anything, except a spiral staircase that was always in the far left of my visual field, no matter how I turned my head. I knew that wasn't right, because I knew spatially the basement stairs go straight up one flight. Anyway, I should have been able to get them into my line of sight somehow. I thought, "Oh, shit! I've had a stroke!" and started groping around on my hands and knees for the stairs. They weren't in front of me, and they weren't to the left: I finally found them beside me on the right. I was thinking, "Well, crap! This is some frickin serious brain damage: no vision; I can't even imagine visually how the stairs look though I know how they should feel; all I can see is this non-existent spiral staircase out of the corner of my eye; and I'm completely disoriented, because I still feel certain the stairs are in front of me, even though touching tells me they're on my right." While I was trying to decide whether I should crawl upstairs in that condition, I woke

I am constantly amazed how easily I accept the surreal in my dreams.

Thanks for sharing!

and not realizing that it doesn't make any sense...

I would think the brain would say... wait, I'm blind... how come I'm seeing myself walking down the hall?...

In fact, why am I seeing myself from a 3rd person perspective?...

:think:

I don't think the dream is connected to the accident. Dreams are metaphors. Is something going on in your life to which you are turning a blind eye?

for stumbling on the box at the bottom of the stairs, in the middle of the night, in pitch black darkness, because turning on the light would have disturbed her.

How does the cross-eyes relate to it/

and I dreamth about it while napping this afternoon.

I don't know how the crossed eyes relate, but certainly walking in the dark to keep from waking her is a common experience.

What's not quite as common (though not rare) are the booby traps at the bottom of the stairs.