(28)Īs she keeps returning to this place of misery, the picture starts to clear up and she realizes that it is “n animal sitting on her chest, pressing the air out of her” (117). And it sits on me heavier and heavier and heavier and I’m suffocating and I can’t do anything. It sits on my chest and I tell it to get off. It’s like I wake up, but I’m still asleep. Kat first confesses her nightmare to Ann: No matter what she does, they creep back into her mind and become all the more intense with each new iteration. Kat keeps having them over and over again.
In The Time of the Ghosts, nightmares are one of the major recurring themes. They are so sinister in nature that they are hard to forget and even harder to overcome. Even after you wake up from them and you catch your breath, you are still haunted by them. Nightmares trap you in the most unpleasant situations that fill you with utter despair. Those are the kinds of good dreams attending to our inner hopes and ambitions, yet there are also bad dreams fueled by our deeper fears and sorrow. Or they can make you re-live the everyday and put a neat spin on it. They can make you escape the mundane and experience the exciting. Indeed, dreams tend to be larger than life. There is a good chance that you are about to go on a great adventure. When you go to bed at night, you know that once you fall asleep anything can happen.
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