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[carole338]

Today marks 4 years since I heard the news that I was paralyzed. I still have trouble remembering all that transpired during those days following the operation that saved my life but left me without the use of my legs.

I still find it hard to believe I am paralyzed and I always dream I am running. I never walk in my dreams. I always run. I wonder what I am running from.

Carole

[wheelzoffortune]

carole338, on 26 February 2011 - 04:42 PM, said:

Today marks 4 years since I heard the news that I was paralyzed. I still have trouble remembering all that transpired during those days following the operation that saved my life but left me without the use of my legs.

I still find it hard to believe I am paralyzed and I always dream I am running. I never walk in my dreams. I always run. I wonder what I am running from.

Carole

I always used to walk in my dreams, too. It wasn't until I "accepted" my injury that I started using a wheelchair while dreaming. Now that you mention it, though, I'm not even sure what exact day I was paralyzed. I think it is better that I don't know.

[Trinity]

Congratulations on 4 yrs, it's a great achievement!

Here's to many many more

[123]

The weirdest thing was that I actually used to dream that I couldn't walk when I could. I'm not superstitious but I often wonder whether this was somewhat premonitionary (I think that's a word - I haven't used my brain properly for a while). I had this dream intermittently from when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I started to lose the use of my legs at 26 due to a spinal cord tumour, but slowly regained some motor function a year after surgery. Very strange...

[LaurenP]

Maybe you're not running from but running to something, the optomist in me.

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LaurenP, on 27 February 2011 - 12:09 PM, said:

Maybe you're not running from but running to something, the optomist in me.

Good call, Lauren! I thought the same the second I read that!

[carole338]

Now if I could only figure out what it is I'm running to.
Thanks for your replies.

[gsp23]

Its been almost 5 yrs for me now and my dreams I am always walking or running and then I seem to remember that I am supposed to be in a chair so I have to have someone get it for me or I have to go back for it. Really weird but it seems to be a trend in my dreams now for the last year or so that I forgot I'm supposed to be in a chair and once I remember it in my dream then I can no longer walk.

[ZEN12many]

I very rarely remember my dreams, but when I have dreamed, since being paralyzed, I am always walking and usually looking for my wheelchair which, somehow, I have misplaced. If I am not looking for my wheelchair, in my dreams, I am looking for a bathroom. When I find one, it is way up at the top of some stairs. When I finally get to the top of the stairs (I don't know how), the bathroom has lots of toilets but no privacy walls between them. Then I wake up.

Rodney (ZEN12many)