Analyzing my crazy creams: Skin falling off regularly

I dream almost every night and for the most part, I wake up at least remembering some of what happened. My nightmares are not the traditional boogieman chasing you or scary creatures of the night, but rather, some sort of dreadful situation that perhaps is possible in regular life.

This next bizarre situation is something that happens in my dreams on a regular basis - I would say, at least once a month. It normally happens after something similar but obviously at a much lower scale happens to me in real life and I guess my brain decides to go absolutely crazy with it

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Ok, so to set things up I have been in a bit of a health mode since around the time I returned from Mexico back in November of last year. That visit opened my eyes to obesity because basically everyone in Mexico is in absolutely terrible shape. A bunch of awesomely fat people walking around everywhere that you go and nobody seems to even care. Since returning I have been on a sort of half-assed mission to not allow that to happen to me.

So I go running every now and then especially during the time of year we are in now where the temperature is pretty cool comparatively speaking. It's still hot, don't get the wrong idea, but it isn't sweating your face off hot at all hours of the day, yet.

So yesterday was actually a pretty solid effort on my part because not only did I go jogging for an hour but I also got home and immediately took Nadi (my dog) on a half an hour walk immediately following that. Then I had a sensible dinner and didn't drink any alcohol, which is rare for me.

While I was sitting on the sofa there was some skin on my big does that was loose (and I'll spare you any lucid details because it is gross) but I pulled on it and it turns out that a lot of that skin was dead and it peeled right off. I was being careful to not pull off any of the alive skin because that would no doubt hurt for days to come but I kind of laughed about how I am getting older because this sort of thing never happened to me when I was older and a lot more active than I am now.

I watched a film, ate some dinner, then went to bed by 10pm like a good well-natured adult and fell asleep really early. During the night though, my brain wasn't done with me and I had a dream about what had just happened with the skin on my foot but in my dream when I pulled on the skin it removed all of the skin on my foot in one long pull. Like ALL of the skin. It was painless but it came off of me like a snake or a gecko shedding its skin.

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This is really the only part of that dream that I remember because I guess it was a bit traumatizing for something like that to happen. In the dream it wasn't painful at all, but there was a fear of it hitting a point where it would become very painful kind of like pulling too far on a fingernail and then, well, you know.

This is a very strange thing to dream about wouldn't you say? It is also something I regularly dream about. It's not just skin but often my teeth will painlessly fall out, like all of them, and also I frequently have other painless yet odd things happen like the interior of my legs all of a sudden being exposed and devoid of flesh.

The rest of what was in my dream I have zero recollection of but that one part must have been the "gotcha" moment because it is all I remember as I sit here in my living room hours later.

While I am always apprehensive to trust any sort of head shrink about dream interpretation I do find it amusing to see what these people have to say about what goes on in my head while I am asleep.

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_{If you know what this is, you and I would probably get along swimmingly}

So according to the internet experts in dream interpretation, skin falling off in dreams can indicate one or more of the following

• this can indicate that you are going through a change in your life and your brain is letting you know that you are ready to shed the old emotional baggage that is in your life
• this can indicate that you are going through a sense of renewal or regeneration (whatever that means)
• This can indicate that you are experiencing negative feelings of not being good enough and you fear rejection from others

I didn't cite any of those because they are not copy/pastas, they are
my interpretations of what I read.

So the reason why I generally have a problem with psychologist interpretation of dreams is because they are very generic like a horoscope and could apply to almost anyone. This is especially true in the last statement because everyone, no matter how confident and filled with good attributes they are, feels some level of nervousness about the opinions of others. I feel this, you feel this, world-famous celebrities feel this, everyone feels this. I don't need a dream to realize that I am sometimes nervous about what other people think of me.

As far as changes in my life are concerned, well this interpretation couldn't be further from the mark as I am at a point in my life where I have basically zero change or unknowns on the horizon.

I suppose it could be connected to the change that I am making as far as the fitness is concerned because of my fear of becoming a lard-ass.

For me, I think the strange dream element is interesting and it was a dream that I was happier to wake up from than one where I was being chased by something sinister. I don't look into it a great deal as I don't think that everything we dream needs to have some sort of underlying reason for existing. To me, I think it was just a question of having some strange skin issues in real life and then my mind going wild with it.

If you have any strange dreams to share I always enjoy hearing about them.