I’ve had an occasional but reoccurring dream since I was a kid. It’s one where I suddenly realize there’s some sort of exam tomorrow and I haven’t studied for it. Fear and panic ensue. Given my last significant exam was for a postgrad degree in my early twenties and I’m now in my early fifties, you’d think my brain might have given up panicking by now. I guess at this stage I’m stuck with it forever.
In the last few years a new dream has started periodically featuring in my mental movie theater. It’s one where I’m naked and just starting an amazing session with a fabulous domme when somebody entirely inappropriate shows up. Dream me never remembers to lock the playspace door. The visitors might be coworkers or friends or relatives. A couple of nights ago it was my Mother. She didn’t look happy about what she found. Fear and panic ensued. Freud would no doubt have a field day.
Amusingly I have a physical record of the effect her unexpected appearance had on me. I’ve been wearing a health tracker that, among other things, records my heartrate. My sleeping rate is fairly steady at 50 bpm. Right around the time of the dream there’s this narrow but very visible spike where my heart rate shoots up to just over 90 bpm. Getting my fight or flight reaction to kick in isn’t unusual in a session, but I don’t think it has ever been triggered quite like that before.
I’ll finish with an image of another dream scenario – inapproiately naked in a public space. I’ve fortunately never had this one but it seems to be a relatively common nightmare. Artwork is by Underling who sadly stopped posting to his site several years ago.
See, I used to have dreams about taking those exams and suddenly realizing that I was naked. 🤔
Ha! The combo deal. That’s unfortunate. I’ve avoided that so far – although maybe I’ll start dreaming of dommes asking me exam questions while my relatives look on and frown disapprovingly 🙂
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A few years ago I was sessioning with my Mistress. I was completely naked and had just received a very severe caning so my bottom was fairly well marked. Since I had been playing with Mistress Ava for over 20 years she knew what I was happy to have happen so I wasn’t surprised when she left me standing in the corner and went off to meet a young couple who were thinking of hiring the premises. So there I was standing in the corner of the schoolroom when she brought a couple in who were about 40 years younger than me, I had my back to them so she told me not to be rude and to turn round and say hello to them. Imagine my horror when I turned round and saw my nephew and a young lady. Fortunately it wasn’t him but a young man with that generic hipster beard and moustache combination that so many young men in their twenties had. Just for a moment though I genuinely thought it was my relative and in that moment my heart rate jumped alarmingly which at my age can be quite frightening. Anyway they weren’t put off by the sight of a naked old fat man having a panic attack and hired the dungeon and Mistress later informed me that they had enjoyed themselves considerably.
OMG. That whole scene would freak me out but thinking it was a younger relative…wow. I’m not surprised your heart rate shot up! That’d be super stressful. Although I guess everyone got a memorable story out of the situation!
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