Active-Imagination-Powers Unite!

As many of you already know, Chuk has an uber-imagination. He always has and his profession requires it. It comes as no surprise that our daughter has inherited this quality; between the two of them I’m constantly finding myself slack jawed at the stories that spew from their mouths.

Chuk’s colorful mind has always produced wildly strange and fantastical dreams. Usually he has nightmares consisting of zombies, sharks, or some sort of H.P. Lovecraft style monsters; all of which sound like they appear to him in high-def. If it’s not nightmares, his dreams take a more Jim Morrison style putting him out in a desert with witch doctors and rainbow glasses.

As you would have guessed, Salem’s dreams are extremely vivid and she too experiences nightmares frequently. Normally her nightmares are of spiders crawling on her while she’s eating popcorn or of some kind of purple painted monster with no feet.

I woke up this morning to her slapping me in the head as she was rolling over in our bed while asleep. I didn’t remember her getting in bed with us last night. Chuk woke up and immediately started enthusiastically explaining another one of his insane dreams. I had to stop him to ask if he remembered her getting in bed with us.

Chuk: “Oh yes! She was in her bed last night calling out to me…”
Me: “I totally slept through that! I didn’t even hear her, poor baby!”
Chuk: “Well, I went in there and she was having a nightmare and talking in her sleep.”
Me: “Aw! I can’t believe I didn’t hear her! What was wrong? Was it the spider dream?”
Chuk: “No. She said she was being attacked by robots….But hey! I want to tell you about my dream, I was in a desert and I met this woman and she turned into a snake and…”

Like father like daughter.