Surgery Dreams

I have had two random off the wall and disturbing dreams lately. This is actually not anything surprising because I am a vivid dreamer. But these two dreams were particularly odd. Just know that I did warn you...begin reading at your own risk.

Dream number one began with me talking to a woman about her hands. She was a working woman who was getting married the next day. She hated her her nails and had decided that she would rather just get rid of them, so she asked me if I would cut off her finger tips just before the first knuckle. I told her I would be happy to, got out a sharp knife, and proceeded to cut off her finger tips.

One by one I sliced them off with no blood or gore. They just sliced off clean like slicing through a banana. I completed the first hand and she closely inspected her fingers. She was so excited about the change. She tapped the top of her "new" fingers on the table top she was sitting at and decided that this would be excellent because she would even be able to type faster, and more accurately as well.

I continued slicing her fingers off and as I started on her second hand I started noticing that her fingers were not all the same. Some of them I had sliced straight down and some I had sliced at more of an angle. I really started to worry about the fact that they were not all uniform and wondered who would be able to clean this up for her. I knew that if I cut into her fingers they would start bleeding and I wouldn't know how to make them look pretty. I looked at the woman and hesitantly asked her,

"are you sure you really want to do this?"

I explained to her that if she wasn't sure there was still time to fix the mistake.

"I can put some ice on your fingertips and we can rush you to the emergency room where they can sew them all back on." I said as I looked at the clean cut fingertips, piled in a paper cup that were placed upon the table.

She looked up at me and a look of sudden fear crossed her face. I ran for the freezer with her cup of fingertips in my hand and reached for the ice.

And then I woke up.

Dream number two began with Mark and I discussing my need for surgery on my ear. I don't recall what the issue was that I needed surgery for but whatever it was, Mark and I decided that because he had medical and surgery related training because of the military he would be our best option to perform this surgery.

We (meaning Mark, me, and other friends who I can not recall) all headed over to my neighbor's house. It was actually somone who we go to church with who I have no daily interaction with so why we went to her home is beyond me.

We walked in the door and realized that Valyn had brand new carpet and her dog was peeing all over it and she did not even care. We sat down at the kitchen table and someone proceeded to give me an Iv. Everyone was giving me well wishes and our friend Joe from high school, (who had hippie looking, bushy long hair) leaned over me and said some comforting words. Then the anesthesia was administered through the Iv and I started to get really really silly. Everyone was laughing and I was enjoying the attention. I then exclaimed that it was time and everything started to go dark but I could still feel my body. I was very worried about being able to feel the surgery since I could still feel touch on my skin.

At some later point I started to regain consciousness. I was slowly awakened by Mark gently picking me up and whispering in my ear. The odd part was that I was outside on the sidewalk somewhere. Mark explained to me that it had actually been two days since my surgery and as I was slowly regaining consciousness I had wandered off. Mark had finally, after a somewhat substantial amount of time, found me and was carrying me home.

And then I woke up.

So, the second one was not as odd as the first and yet still just a bit on the different side. Do these dreams have something to do with something I am worried about? Is it because we have had so much surgery in our family lately? Or is it a warning? Ok, probably just randomness that my brain has conjured up but still, what in the world would make me dream the finger dream in particular? Just weird. Really, really weird.