Posts by compound complex

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

Thanks, FedUpJW, Flipper, and others . . .

I appreciate your comments and links (Mr. Flipper). Will get back to you. Like the idea of journaling dreams.

Later, . . .

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

Yes, smiddy -- truth is stranger than fiction. It's hard separating what's real and what's not.

Thanks!

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i feel a sadness so deep that friends wonder why my art and my blinds remain undrawn.. gone is the muse who promised me solacewhile guys played ball and climbed tall trees.. a blank canvas before me says, "here's your life, where has it gone?".

is it too late to become what imight have become .

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compound complex

Looking into a ubiquitous mirror, I am reminded at

Every turn I am not the man you see, a knight whose

Shining armor is, in truth, tarnished and unreflecting.

You offer your hand with kindly eyes, but may a heart

Nourished with tales of courtly love reside as one

With a true but broken heart of flesh and blood?

You wish for what I cannot give, to you, to anyone

Who demands, however gently, that I be the man

Who never was nor ever shall be . . .

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

cha ching and others who no longer dream of the JW-oriented life -- what a relief!

From time to time I still wake up with my heart pounding after dreaming that I had re-enlisted at Bethel. -- Pete Zahut

In the OP, I wasn't even thinking of my recurring Bethel dreams. Yes, I returned to Bethel and there was no way out this time.

Thanks.

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

Lots of terrific comments!

Thanks, everyone, for posting as well as for the links, jp.

We're all affected differently, that's for sure.

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

Yes, new boy, dreams of Bethel! I forgot about that one.

I relate to much of what you wrote. In my dreams, I was up on the roof (a favorite "haunt"), in the dining room, etc. Of course, there was an exaggeration in appearance of everything and everybody I saw.

Never goes away.

THANKS!

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

Thanks, James Mixon, for giving me a new perspective.

In my dream, I kept wondering why the creature was so gentle and caring. The movie version alien killed you first then asked questions.

Don't wanna go there . . .

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On Grief and Loss

by jp1692 in

on grief and loss.

each and every tear is a memory.

and when you feel so intensely all that you have lost, you are also remembering everything that you have had.

compound complex

I am always heartened, jp, when a well-expressed thought carries a sufficient emotional content of empathy and caring so as to touch the heart.

You succeed.

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Do you have JW-related dreams (nightmares)?

by compound complex in

greetings, dreamers:.

i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.

last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.

compound complex

Thanks, OC and jp, for your thoughts and experiences.

It all helps, in order to analyze and to understand. If not, well, just to go along for the ride.

DANG -- almost every night!

Best regards.

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On Grief and Loss

by jp1692 in

on grief and loss.

each and every tear is a memory.

and when you feel so intensely all that you have lost, you are also remembering everything that you have had.

compound complex

Well put, jp:

Yesterday, I told a friend that I have finally received a balance -- a perspective -- in my emotional outlook, one tempered by reason and logic. I am saddened by loss but no longer consumed by the attendant grief. There have been so many blessings.

Thanks.