Dreamin' and screamin'

Every once in a while I have a bad dream and wake myself up screaming. Several months ago, I had such a dream. In my dream, there were intruders in the basement of my house in the middle of the night. I try to shout to scare them off and warn my family of the threat in our house. Of course, my vocal chords are immobilized because I am asleep and I am unable to make a sound. This heightens my fear in the dream and escalates my attempts to shout until I am quite literally screaming at the top of my lungs and I wake up. It was a very unsettling experience.

I had another, similar yet different experience of that on the weekend. This time I did not have a scary dream. I could scarcely remember at all what I'd been dreaming. I had a vague impression that I'd been standing on the sidewalk on the street where my parents live. I had a vague impression that I'd been dealing with some people and that I was upset with them. I had a vague impression that there was something inside me I needed to express. It started as a low pitch in my gut, and it increased in pitch and in volume as the scream rose up through my chest, through my throat, and out my mouth. That's about when I woke up.

There is something inside my subconscious that is trying to get out.