Dream wtf

[ysobel]

Dream last night: I was hanging out with a friend at my place, and her crappy asshole ex-bf showed up. (Friend exists in real life, but she doesn't have an ex, and I don't recognize the guy outside of the dream). Crappy Ex didn't do anything overtly bad aside from just showing up uninvited, but anything could start I was just up in his face yelling at him to get the fuck out and leave her/us alone, trying to be physically intimidating as well. I couldn't actually yell -- I think either the "physically suppress brain signals in dreams" thing kicked in to keep me from actually yelling and my dream brain picked up on me failing to vocalize, or I did make some small physical noise and my brain was like "oh that wasn't loud" -- but it was effective regardless; he did the "I'm just being friendly" blustery defense and skedaddled, and I went back to the couch where I'd been sitting and just kind of wheezed for an eternity. I don't know why there was wheezing since I don't have asthma, but it seemed linked to the not-yelling somehow.

I'm not a confrontational person, unless I'm seriously pushed past limits, but this whole thing had a mama-bear defendińg-my-territory vibe... that feels significant for reasons I cannot figure out.