Can anyone help me understand this?
Okay, this might sound a little silly to some people, but this dream really got to me in a strange way because I know I would actually do that. It happened a few months ago.
In the dream, I was a single dad. It wasn’t exactly “me” physically (it was a different appearance, a different life), but my thoughts and the way I saw things still felt like mine (almost everything was the same).
I had a daughter (Olivia). A little girl, beautiful, full of life. She was smiling, outgoing, excited about everything—one of those kids who light up the room without even realizing what’s going on. But she was also a bit of a troublemaker, so I think she took after her dad a little.
At some point, I found out I was dying. I don’t remember exactly why, but I think I’d been in an accident a long time ago. The injury affected my muscles and got worse as time went on because it was never treated properly.
So I started living with my days literally numbered, focusing only on taking care of her.
But then I found out she was dying too. She had a terminal illness, something like cancer.
And that’s when I decided to do something in the dream:
Since my organs and blood were still healthy (and I found out they were compatible with hers), I started donating everything I could so she could stay alive. Without worrying about consequences or anything like that, just thinking about one person: HER.
I remember the compatibility tests. I remember the feeling of the anesthesia. I remember my body getting light and my eyes closing. I remember the wind blowing against the hospital window. I remember the warmth of her embrace that I used to feel every morning when I woke her up. I remember how I used to comb her hair for school. Everything
Everything seemed absurdly real.
After that, in the dream, I kind of “disappeared (after dying),” but I kept watching her from the outside, as if I were some kind of ghost watching her continue to live and grow.
What hit me the most wasn’t even the sadness of the dream. It was realizing that I would actually do that for my children (which I don’t have yet and don’t even know if I’ll ever have).
And that destroyed me when I woke up.
I woke up with tears streaming down my face and cried for a while, trying to understand why a dream managed to feel more real than so many memories from my life.