I've told this story to a few of my friends. But I will tell it again, and make some witty connection to a deeper meaning or something.
Last year I roomed with a great person named Daniel Coutz. We would share all of our deepest thoughts with each others.
We shared our likes and dislikes, our dreams and disappointments. And we shared our fears.
Daniel doesn't like mullets.
I don't like unibrows.
Daniel has been afraid that he will wake up with a mullet someday, somehow letting it happen without even realizing it.
I have been afraid of waking up with a unibrow with the same thing happening.
Last Sunday night at this time I was in the PSU trying to sleep because of the power outage. I didn't get to sleep. But at 6:00 am they let us go back to our real beds. I slept for a while. But I dreamed as well.
I dreamed a terrible dream.
In my dream, it was dark in the apartment--because of the power outage--and I walked into the bathroom. I looked in the dark mirror and saw something hideous on my face. It was a unibrow! But it wasn't just any unibrow. It was a unibrow that went from the top of my forehead to the tip of my nose.
It was gross.
So in my dream, I was so disgusted, so I reached for my shaver...
...my electric shaver...
...that needed charged.
Then that was the end of the dream.
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But really, it is interesting to me that my weird, unreasonable fear would cause me to have a dream such as this, at the one time when I can't make it all better by shaving it off.
Why do dreams take advantage of our fears? I have always been afraid of heights, so I always have dreams were I am falling to my most probable death.
See as long as I am in control of my height, I can make it. I can clutch a guardrail or just not go on the roof in the first place.
But once I am falling, I've lost control. There's nothing I can do about it.
Once the electric has gone out and I can't shave my unibrow, I've lost control. There's nothing I can do about it.
I guess the big question is:
Could the biggest fear I have had, be the fear of losing control?
