~ Very Strange Dreams ~

by Tina~in_ut

When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I had a horrible nightmare.  My dad, who was always so sweet and kind and the perfect husband and father, had an affair.  It was SO unlike him that I was devastated.  I remember we were in a hardware store and I kept trying to hide from him because SHE was there.  He didn't know I knew.  Although it never made sense to me, the woman he had the affair with was Phyllis Diller.  I guess I had just watched "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number" with Phyllis, Bob Hope, and Elke Sommer.  I LOVED that movie.  Anyway, when I woke up, I was furious with my dad.  It lasted for months.  I know it's stupid and only a dream, but I just couldn't shake the feeling I had.  I watched him closely for the longest time.  Now that I think about it, I don't think I ever told him about the dream, but I know I told my mother a couple of years ago and she laughed and laughed.

When I got home from work on Sunday, my daughter greeted me with, "Guess what I had a dream about?"  "What dear?"  With big round eyes, she looked up at me and said, "Dad had an affair!!  I woke up and I was SO mad at him!  Wait until I tell you all about it.  I haven't even told him all of it!"

I stopped her right there!  That was so crazy to hear.  It brought back all the old feelings and I told her about my dream.  She felt much the same way.  She said that after church one day, her dad ran into school real quick and when he didn't come out right away, she went in to find him.  He was in the office across the hall from his, making out with a woman.  He was on top of her and it was SO GROSS!  He saw my daughter and she yelled at him and told him, "Oh really dad!  Mr. Brown (assistant principal) is in his office!"  He got off the woman and my daughter ran back to the car to tell me.  She said that when her dad came out to the car, I was all touchy feely and tried to make him feel guilty!  (I would NEVER do that!)  She said that later, she saw the same woman in the mall.  She was wearing a robe and lingerie and she was making out with someone else.  My daughter gave her a dirty look, but the woman only smiled.

I think the best part of her story was when she told me this wasn't the first time she's dreamt about this.  She said that she had a similar dream when she was a lot younger, but she didn't feel as bad "because she wasn't as educated about love stuff then!" 

Have you ever had a dream/nightmare similar to that of someone else in your family?  Or just a dream that made you feel awful for quite some time afterward?