I told my dream to a friend recovering from a full knee replacement surgery like my wife also had a couple of years ago now and he laughed at the dream. I found myself laughing with him which was very therapeutic for me. You know how horrific it can be to have a dream like that where you have to shoot to kill others to stay alive. This isn't something you actually want to have to do in life ever because of the PTSD you are going to experience ever after even if you survive something like this.
So, having him laugh was really good to hear. He started laughing when I had to start shooting people. His comment was "Yes. That could really happen here." Which is what many of us think here in the U.S. in horror.
But, laughing about it is also therapeutic because if you can't laugh you might just die of a heart attack or stroke if it happens in real life. I suppose dreams prepare us for real life.
Having been attacked as a child when older children tried to kill me more than once and surviving likely prepared me for anything I might face as an adult too. Survival often is just about finding a way to stay calm and rational and steely enough to survive literally anything.
"Where there's a will there's a way!"
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