Anxiety and Looking for a Children's Book
I knew I'd been having increased anxiety issues lately (had a lovely classic anxiety dream this morning, too) and at my dental appointment this morning they told me I'd been grinding my teeth. (There are like, teeth imprints in my tongue, too.) So I need to stop that. Years ago I had a big case of TMJ from teeth grinding, but managed to stop and it went away. Fun! Not.
Anyway. Before I go back to work, I wanted to engage the group brain and see if anyone remembered this children's novel. It would have been out in the 70s and available in libraries. It was about a kid (I think it was a boy) who makes friends with another kid in his class who was somewhat disruptive. The disruptive kid has been having strange dreams, and the protagonist helps him interpret them, and they realize that the dreams are prophetic. They both think the disruptive kid has a special ability to do this. But then the disruptive kid starts to dream about dangerous things happening to people. Trying to prevent one of the dreams from coming true, they're both nearly killed in a building collapse in a construction site or ruined structure. They realize the dream deliberately lured them into danger, and the friendship breaks up out of fear. Later, the protagonist's grandmother tells him that any fool can dream; it's being able to interpret the dreams that is the gift. The protagonist realizes that the whatever it was that sent the dream was after him. And it ended there!
Does that sound familiar to anybody? I have no idea of the title or author.
Anyway. Before I go back to work, I wanted to engage the group brain and see if anyone remembered this children's novel. It would have been out in the 70s and available in libraries. It was about a kid (I think it was a boy) who makes friends with another kid in his class who was somewhat disruptive. The disruptive kid has been having strange dreams, and the protagonist helps him interpret them, and they realize that the dreams are prophetic. They both think the disruptive kid has a special ability to do this. But then the disruptive kid starts to dream about dangerous things happening to people. Trying to prevent one of the dreams from coming true, they're both nearly killed in a building collapse in a construction site or ruined structure. They realize the dream deliberately lured them into danger, and the friendship breaks up out of fear. Later, the protagonist's grandmother tells him that any fool can dream; it's being able to interpret the dreams that is the gift. The protagonist realizes that the whatever it was that sent the dream was after him. And it ended there!
Does that sound familiar to anybody? I have no idea of the title or author.
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