Dreamt of Going Blind

So, last night’s dream wasn’t terribly pleasent.

It was all about seeing a doctor. He checked my eyes, and after the check up the secretary came out and asked me to please stay because the doctor would like to have a talk with me. As dreams go I don’t recall the small details, but she either told me that it was very important or she simply had a very somber mood about her.

The doctor wasn’t alone when he finally came out to speak with me, rather he brought a second doctor along with him. They sat down to either side of me and told me that I should sit down, too This was going great. One of my first thoughts was, “am I going to die or something?”. Heh.

They began to go through the process of telling me about my eyes, and that I had a very small time frame before I would go completely blind. Again the details of the dream allude me, I don’t remember if it was two years or two months.

My reaction was one of general disbelief. I informed that that I knew that I could potentially go blind in one eye, but a different doctor had told me that this wouldn’t happen until I was fourty or fourty-one years old (note: this is true, an optometrist has told me that I could be blind in my left eye when I’m sometime around 40 to 50 years old).

The two doctors became both very angry and very sad when I told them this, and one sighed and said to himself, “I hate it when they do this.” They informed me that this previous doctor was correct about the problem, but that he had either lied about the time frame to keep me happy or he simply couldn’t properly diagnose the problem. Also, they insisted that it would be both eyes and not just the one.

I spent the rest of my dream in deep thought over what I would like to do with the short ammount of time that remained of my eyesight. I decided that I wanted to spend the time looking at beautiful things, and more than anything else, I wanted to spend time with the ones that I loved and to see them as often as I could. More than anyone else, I wanted to spend the time with my princess, but I didn’t know how I would get the money in time needed to travel to her. Let alone how she would react to this terrible news.

All in all, I would have to say that this was a pretty negative dream that I could have done without, but the introspection that it caused is very interesting.

~Mysk