Thread: Recurring (and escalating) dream about Charlie Sheen

Greetings, all.

I've been having a recurring dream about the actor, Charlie Sheen. To give some background, I'm neither a fan nor a detractor of the man. I don't think he's as talented as his father and brother are, but he has done some parts in shows that I enjoyed. (However, most roles he plays, I think he's pretty boring and isn't really making an effort.) I don't follow him in particular--if the media suddenly deems him 'newsworthy' (such as getting fired from a hit show), then I hear about it, since it's plastered all over the place. Otherwise, I don't.

Off and on for the past few months, I dreamt that I married him because quite literally, his life depended upon it, and I was terrified at what would happen if I didn't--I didn't want him dying because I refused to help. (I'm not quite sure why the marriage saved his life, though.) But once I did, my sympathy disappeared and I was angry and resentful and afraid. He seems to be frightened of me, and keeps trying to tell me the marriage will work if I just let it, and that he really needs it to work, he can't have it fail. This has been the general nature of the dream, where I seem to be trying to keep my distance and just get him to leave me alone as much as possible. Sometimes his father (who I know in real life is Martin Sheen, but in my dreams is Michael Douglas) tries to intercede on his behalf to ask me to give him a chance to show he could be a good husband. I'm always tempted to do this after his dad talks to me, but then when I see him, I'm angry and resentful and afraid again.

Last night, the dream escalated where we actually had a fight. In the dream, I was watching a movie he was in (I don't know if it was a real one he was in), and he made a snide comment about that being progress, that I would actually watch him on TV even if I wouldn't talk to him. I got mad and picked up the remote control, which got very hot in my hand, and pointed it at him, and he got scared and ran. And I remember I was horrified at how close I'd come to doing something *really* awful to him, started feeling bad for him again, and thinking I should apologize and agree to try to make things work.

I tried 'tracking' these dreams to see if maybe they got triggered by my watching a movie/TV show that he was in, or if he'd maybe been mentioned in the news, but that doesn't seem to be the case. If anything, I've found out as a result of all this that out of all the movies he's made, I've only seen seven of them, and of those seven, four of them I never even realized he was in it (he had cameo or bit parts, or had just been starting out and I never made the connection over the years of "Oh, that was a young Charlie Sheen.")

Any thoughts appreciated. Given that I never thought much about the actor one way or the other, it's a head-scratcher why my subconscious is choosing him.