Dreams, daydreams, stories to help cope with our cancer...

KatyK

I thought a topic about dreams, daydreams, stories, metaphors that we use to help us cope with our cancer might be an interesting topic. I've always had very vivid dreams and I love analyzing them - they can mean whatever you want! I also use a lot of visualizations and little stories to help me cope with my cancer. Here are some of my examples;

* I had a dream a few weeks ago about entering a room and there was a small group of people there scared about this little snake that was on the floor, along the baseboard. The snake was orange,small, no eyes, no mouth and could not move by wiggling, he just sort of inched along. Really not very scary at all. But people were warning me about the snake as it was poisonous and I told them I know it's there but it won't hurt me as it just stays on the sides of the room out of my way. So I think the little snake is my cancer and I try to think of it as not so scary and maybe it will just stay out of my way! I visualize it staying put with my meds and love from family and friends.

* Every night when I take my Ibrance I say, “Go get 'em!" and DH adds, “Get the mother#$*&@%$!" We clean it up around the grandkids but one time my eight year old grandson said, “ Are we supposed to say get the little assholes or something like that?"

*When out in nature I visualize breathing out my cancer to Mother Nature and breathing in all her goodness, strength and healing.

*Sometimes I have violent thoughts and really unleash on the cancer cells and imagine shooting them, stabbing them, hitting them with a hammer and unleashing a mountain lion on them! And I'm really not a violent person!

*I visualize my cancer has called me a bitch and DH hears and opens a can of whoopass on them! This is based on the time a young man called me a bitch, I never saw DH come out of his skis so fast and so angry - I had to hold him back (and he's really mellow but you don't call his wife a bitch).

So those are some of my dreams, daydreams, visualizations, stories, I use to help cope with my cancer. Please share yours