A couple weeks ago I had a nightmare. It was one of those dreams that was completely and totally real while I was dreaming it and it didn't seem absurd until I woke up in a panic. I was golfing in the swamp and all of a sudden Cori (my 2 year old)was out on a tree root that was sticking out of water and an Alligator jumped out of the water and ate her whole. There was nothing I could do and I was panicked and felt completely hopeless to help her. I woke up in a cold sweat.

This morning I had another dream like that. Only this time it was Ashley (my 8 year old). We were all at the zoo together and were inside the monkey cage playing with the monkeys (because you know they let you do that right?) and I started getting nervous and wanted to leave. So my mom and I left with the girls. Now through the monkey cage you could choose to go to a cage with a pool of hippos and a bunch of lions laying around the outside. I was telling my mom how dumb I thought that was just as I was noticing that Steve (my husband)had taken Ashley into that cage! I freaked out and started screaming just as Ashley fell into the hippo pool and watched as she was swallowed by a hippo. I woke up completely terrified again.

So- what do these dreams mean? Why am I so crazy?