From: crwhite@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER RYAN WHITE )
Subject: Re: This type of dream...
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:09:44 GMT

In article <1e4g6jINNd6a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ak044@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Borger) writes:
|> 
|> In a previous article, 002369c@ace.acadiau.ca (WILLIAM FREDERICK CUSTANCE) says:
|> 
|> >May I ask a simple question?
|> >Here goes anyways...Have you ever had a fever dream?
|> >I mean the type of dream when you have a fever and in the dream you 
|> >hallucinate and excperience scary stuff. It's almost like your awake, 
|> >because the surroundings are real, but you ARE dreaming. One typ of fever 
|> >dream that I have had, includes watching the cieling and walls, and strips 
|> >peel off and collect like a snowball rolling down a hill.
|> >And often there are mice. Hundreds of damn mice! Anyway there may also be a 
|> >droneing noise accompanied with these dream that gets rather annoying.
|> >I haven't had one of these dreams since I was in juniorhigh, with a high 
|> >Any comments...?

	I've had some dreams similar to this also.  I remember one time I was 
supposed to play in a soccer tournament where our team would have to travel to
Augusta, GA for the weekend.  I was about 10 years old at the time.  Right 
before I was supposed to go to this tournament, my younger brother got really
sick.  My mom was not going to let me go to the tournament in fear that I  
would get sick while I was there.  Eventually, she let me go because I had been
looking forward to this for a long time.  Our team left on a Friday afternoon
and got to the hotel in time to go to the pool before it got dark.  Later that
night my brother's sickness finally started to get to me.  I got a high fever 
and became very delirious.  I don't remember all of what happened, but I'll 
try to explain the best that I can.  I can remember that in my dream I started
to relive the events of the previous day after we arrived at the hotel.  Most 
of what I remember involves playing in the pool with my friends on the soccer
team.  The strange thing about reliving these events in my dream was that I 
was also reliving them in real life.  As I was swimming in the pool in my dream,I was also trying to swim in my bed.  As I was climbing the ladder for the 
diving board, I was trying to climb the wall which was above the head of my 
bed.  During the time that this was going on, I had awoke the 2 other guys on
my team, who thought that all of this was very amusing, and the parent that was
staying in the room with us, who had never seen anything like this before and 
was afraid I was going to hurt myself.  Those are most of the details I remem-
ber from this high fever dream that I had.

	I also had another high fever dream during the time that Gary Hart and
Walter Mondale were trying to gain the Democratic nomination.  I remember 
coming home from school early that day because I had a high fever.  There was
a primary that day because I remember that was all they were talking about on 
the news.  I slept in my grandmother's bed that night because she did not want
me to sleep in my bed alone with as high a fever as I had.  I had gone to bed
early and in my delirium started to live the things that were being said on the
TV in my dream(the TV was on).  As the primary news was being repeated, which
Gary Hart had won, my mind shifted and all of the sudden I dreamed that I was 
an alien who could not breathe on the planet Earth and therefore I had to get
a knife and kill myself.  Since my dream seemed like reality, I got up from the
bed, still mostly asleep, and started to proceed downstairs to get a knife to 
kill myself.  Fortunately, my grandmother had not gone to bed yet and caught me before I harmed myself and sent me back to bed. 

	These are the only two high fever dreams that I really remember.  I
would be interested in reading more articles about this subject.  By the way,
this is my first posting to this newsgroup.  So if I messed up or if this   
article has no relevence to what this newsgroup is talking about, send me email
and let me know what's up.  


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