Odd Dream

Well, most people who know me probably know that from time to time I have very strange or random dreams. Tonight I had another one of those. I'm thinking it might have been brought on by a storm that was going on outside, but who knows?

For as long as I can remember, I've always been terrified of tornadoes. Once in a while, I've been known to have dreams about them. Generally, they're recurring dreams. This time, I had a new dream.

I was at home with just my grandpa, and there was a storm going on. I looked outside and noticed that across the street something weird was going on, it took me just a second but I realized that what I was seeing was a pretty wide tornado outside close to one of the other houses. I told my grandfather, and he immediately got us into the back bedroom (which I find odd now, since generally we would've gone to the hallway). I wanted to get into the closet, it's a big one anyway. So there would be enough room for both of us. But, he said no, the closet would collapse if we got in there, so we got down on the floor by the bed, and I hung onto him because I was afraid.

I remember the feeling of the wind and the strange sensation when it slammed into the house, I almost thought we'd been lifted up, I had a long moment of...I guess vertigo without the visual effects. I held on tighter, because I was afraid that he would be swept up and if that was going to happen, I wanted to go along. I didn't want to be the one to know that I had hold of someone I loved and couldn't hang on and keep myself grounded at the same time.

But, thankfully, the worry was unnecessary. He didn't get swept up and neither did I. Most of the house turned out to be fine. I don't remember if the closet had collapsed or not. We were both fine. My mother came home shortly after and was worried. But, she was glad we were fine. I was paranoid the rest of the night in the dream, worrying that a tornado would come again in the night and I wouldn't be able to see it, that no one would, and this time we'd all die.

And, then I woke up. :p

Weird, eh?