A tale of Changing Bears

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This is Probably the Oldest Dream I can remember having, some real-world context first. When I was but a wee baby, I would sleep in my parent's room. Every night they watched Greys Anatomy. Also noteworthy is that this was my first recurring dream and the reason I can't bring myself to like bears.

The Dream Begins inside The Hospital from Grey's anatomy. More specifically my dream began with me walking out of the hospital only to realize that "Oh No, I can't leave, the hospital is now located on a ridiculously small island barley a foot larger than the hospital itself on all sides. I do notice fairly quickly however that there is a small rowboat I can use to get back to the mainland. So I get In and go on my way rowing home when all of a sudden a large Grizzly bear appears in the boat and eats m.  I died every time, and I was only around 3 years old. This is where the dream would normally end.  But the last time I had this dream was different.

So for the first half of the Dream, everything went the same, I left the hospitable, stuck on an island, get in the rowboat and start rowing. But something is different, The bear no longer appears to mall me. so Instead of dying, I get to arrive at my destination. Where is that destination? Antarctica. I arrive to see "The march of the penguins." At least one gets eating by an orca. So here I am watching this mass migration of these penguins to their breeding grounds when all of a sudden I see HIM. He's been missing the whole time and there he is, on the Icy shore of Antarctica stands the bear. He looks a little different now, he has become a polar bear and wears sunglasses, but somehow I knew it had to be the same bear. Upon seeing him I shutter preparing to be attacked, but instead of attacking me, the bear does something interesting. He waves at me. After having killed me Time and time again the bear decided to wave at me. Unfortunately I took the wave as him letting me know that he knows where I am and that he'll be over to kill me shortly. I wake from the fright.

Only many years later did I realize that the bear and me had made peace that evening even if I didn't realize it at the time. After that dream I didn't hate bears so much and the bear became sort of a mascot in my dreams. he was everywhere.

I hope i can meet him in my dreams soon, and I pray that if I do he won't maul me.


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