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The older I get the more I dream.

I don't know about the rest of you Seniors out there, but I have found a most pleasant side to aging - I dream more. Not just now and then, but every night, and mostly early morning hours. Apart, from a few exceptions, most all of my dreams are very pleasant ones. They are filled with vivid images and warm feelings. Sometimes they are continuous dreams where I will awake periodically, then fall back into the same dream over and over again. These dreams I can always recall upon awakening. Some feel so realistic that I am left with lingering feelings for hours afterwards.

At times I even talk in my sleep while dreaming. This always wakes up my partner, Ron, who gets a kick out of asking me questions in response to what I say out loud. He will keep it up until I am fully awake and aware of what he is doing. Then we both laugh about what had been said. Most always it doesn't make sense and is ridiculously funny!

Sometimes, however, a nightmare or two will crop up. Usually when that happens it involves some wild animal that is chasing after me. It can be of bears or a large cat. I always wake up just before the animal reaches me, thank goodness.
I think that most of these nightmares stem from the fact that I have a fear of bears. When I was a small child I can remember there being a picture of bears walking through a forrest that hung on my bedroom wall. When I began to have nightmares my mother took the picture down of course.

My fear of bears never went away though.