Dream Girl

Dreams and Nightmares:

• recurring dream: possum crossing the road and getting nailed by a car but surviving and dragging himself across the road--I haven't had this dream in six years, but I made the mistake of telling Wes about it, so now any time I jerk in bed, he says, "Seeing that possum again?"
• dream as a child about being cannibalized on the playground by a troll that lives in the woods--really vivid dream: red and white checked tablecloth, wicker picnic basket, me alive and relatively calm while the troll cuts open my stomach, my long brown hair splayed behind me
• dreams when I first fall asleep that focus on classes and encounters with students and colleagues--I'll wake myself (and Wes) up answering questions
• dream in Tallahassee that the air was polluted and that we would die from breathing it. I scared Wes by yelling at him (in my sleep) to stop breathing. He claims that he woke up to find me holding a pillow over his face, but I'm sure that didn't happen. (And if it did, it's probably because he wouldn't shut up about the damn possum dream.)