Today’s questions come to us from oldwoodchair. Thanks Terry!
1. Do you ever have repeated dreams?…you know, the same dream periodically throughout your life? I never do, but I hear some people experience that. But I do have dreams that I am dreaming.
2. I have a phobia about snakes….it is unreasonable and totally powerful. I have no idea why I have it. Do you have any phobias or fears that go beyond just a regular, understandable fear (like war, violence, loss, etc.)?
3. Speaking of weird psychological behavior, will you admit to any obsessive compulsive issues? Like, I always place my paper money in my wallet facing the same way and right side up. (OK…I don’t freak out if it’s not that way, but it just makes the universe more centered for me.)
4. I have 3 grown children who won’t eat anything with onions. I love onions and grew up being told that they help prevent colds and cancer. Do you like onions?
5. I’ve been married for like 107 years…in a row….to the same person. Do you believe in true love and that it is a magical destiny to be with that one soul mate in the universe, or that it is a more logical mutual respect and peaceful co-existence with someone that fits well into the life that you live and share?
Lisa Shilts
8:27 pm on December 12th
1. Never have the same dreams, but the re-occurring occasional theme is that I am running very late to an important event and can’t get there, like my wedding. I’m always crying and trying to get everything organized so I can leave. Probably comes from my highly organized and always-on-time lifestyle!
2. No phobias!
3. My spices are in alphabetical order, my money is always like Terry’s except it also goes from small denomination to larger denomination, and my Christmas wrap must all match. But I don’t know that I have OCD. (I have CDO. It’s like OCD but with the letters in alphabetical order, like they’re supposed to be.)
4. I LOVE onions, especially fried in butter. Camping, take a big onion and cut it, stuff with butter, wrap in foil, put in the fire for a while. YUMMY! My boys have grown to like onions now that they are older.
5. I too, have been married a LOT longer than I wasn’t married, but I really don’t believe in a soulmate, or that there is only one person out there for each of us. There is something to be said, in our case, about marrying young and growing to share so many of the same things. The longer we are together, the more we seem to be alike. I even went deer hunting this year! (But just for a couple of hours!)
Thanks Terry – Happy Holidays!
Alex
7:58 am on December 13th
I love oldwoodchair.
1. I used to have this land of the lost dinosaur dream over and over again in my youth. It went away eventually, but it was freaky.
2. My mom is the same way. She totally hates snakes too. My biggest phobia is walking across bridges.
3. I would not know where to even begin.
4. Onions are awesome, as long as they are in stuff. They are even better caramelized in anything.
5. I think soul-mate and mutual respect go hand in hand. I hope I can stay married for 107 years.
Andy Laub
11:05 am on December 13th
2. I don’t like boats or bridges very much, unless I am carrying absolutely nothing on me. I have an unreasonable fear of losing wallet/keys/phone/etc in the water.
3. I prefer things to be in multiples of 5, when it comes to choosing arbitrary numbers (widths of things when doing design work, for example, or the volume on the TV).
4. I will not go near onions.
Grinning Soul
6:55 pm on December 14th
Good to see your questions here Oldwoodchair.
1~You know those dreams that people have right before a slumber induced body twitch, if I am about to have one of those, I always dream that I am tripping on the sidewalk. I believe this comes from breaking my arm on a sidewalk when I was 3 or 4.
2~Another weird thing from my youth. My earliest childhood memory is freaking out over something I thought was an insect. The more antennae or appendages the worse. Strangely enough, spiders scare me less than all other insects. Reptiles are alright by me.
3~I am pretty non-perfectionistic about most things but I am freakishly obsessed with being punctual. If I am scheduled to be somewhere at a particular time or I tell someone 4pm, I am 10 minutes early.
4~I love onions to the depths of my soul.
5~I don’t know what I believe about love anymore. Sad huh?
oldwoodchair
10:13 pm on December 14th
Grinning Soul: I think it’s great to not know what you believe about love…that means that you’re open to all the possibilities!
Darcey Westcott
3:35 pm on December 17th
Good questions OWC…
1. I have many repeated dreams…must be my unsettled subconscious: I’m often in my childhood home being pursued by a scary stranger; I always forget all of my makeup on trips in my dreams…especially oversea adventures; my car is stolen or stripped down when I try to find it in a parking lot. Hate those dreams.
2. I have a phobia of insects with lots of legs that crawl fast…spiders, centipedes, etc. I think it’s from when I watched “The Tingler” when I was vey young…that black huge centiped thingy would cling to people’s backs…or because my brother used to throw spiders at me.
3. I always tidy up my home prior to any out-of-town travels. Think it stems from when I used to travel in the 80s/90s overseas and you never knew if you’d get bombed/killed as an American traveler (kind of like now), so I wanted things in order in case I never came back.
4. I acquired a taste for onions.
5. I used to believe in soul mates wholeheartedly. I have now come to understand that there is no fairy godmother of love…merely a mortal mix of continued mutual respect, a bit of chemical attraction, some hard work and similar likes and/or life passions.
oldwoodchair
11:03 pm on December 18th
I just have to comment on some of these answers…
Alex: #2 – I have the bridge thing too, and I know where it came from. When I was a little girl we lived near the Dairy Queen on Thomas Street. My big sister would put me in the stroller and walk me downtown across the Thomas Street bridge (which was & I think still is the “George Stevens Bridge”). At that time it was all wooden slats, no concrete…and some of the slats were missing so I could look right down at the deep water and my stroller wheels would sometimes get stuck between slats & I was sure I would plummet to my death. It’s amazing I can still function in normal society.
Lisa: #3 – ME TOO!!!…spices are alpha, denominations in ascending order. My socks have to match my shirt. Either all gold jewelry or all silver, no mixing. And last night I sorted out old family photos to display at my mom’s funeral. I sorted them by size, era, and side of the family…it took hours, but there was no other option for me…they could not be mixed up. Does anyone think I should look into therapy?
Darcey: #2 – I remember the movie The Tingler! My brother & his girlfriend stayed home with me one Saturday night when my parents went out. They let me stay up late & watch “Seven Cemetary Road” which was always a scary movie. That movie scared me so bad I had trouble sleeping for a long time….I could always feel the tingler heading for my back. Yech!
I enjoyed reading all your great answers. It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one with “issues”…LOL. Hope you all have a great holiday!!
owc