Jami Gets Better, In Her Dreams

I'm sure I've mentioned that I have lots of very vivid dreams. A small percentage of those are nightmares, though when I do have the bad ones, they are bad. Around the end of high school/beginning of college, I learned a different way to deal with those ones. For most of them, when I wake up, I calm myself down and try to think of a way I could have handled it better, and/or gotten out alive. For example, should I have stood and fought instead of run? Maybe I should have walked away when I got that first uneasy feeling instead of waiting around to see what would happen? At first, it was just a way to sort of get my head out of the scary place, but then something started to happen. Weeks, or even months after I'd had the nightmare, I'd have it again - but I'd use the solution I'd come up with. Usually it would work and I'd escape. Cool, hunh? I thought so. Just in the last year, though, I've started fighting back in the dreams themselves. Catching onto the danger faster and reacting smarter. Last night I had a disaster-movie, terrorist-attack style dream and early in the dream, before things got scary and before most viewers of the movie would have figured it out, I realized the danger and got myself and someone else out of harm's way, even rescuing someone else later. I don't know what that means, other than maybe all my contingency planning is finally paying off, if only in my dreams. I can't know how that will translate into a real emergency, except maybe I'll think it's a dream and take care of business. Hopefully, we'll never know.