DISQUS

Kilodelta · 5 months ago

What Mr. Teach is experiencing sounds an awful lot like post traumatic stress disorder. Having worked for the attorney general in my state I got to see some pretty awful stuff. But nothing near what the cop on the street sees. What I was was always AFTER the fact when the blood had dried, when the victims brains had been picked up, etc.

We developed a gallows humor about it. And we drank like fish.

Spasepeepoles · 5 months ago

You are weird. This went green on Fark.com. Your site will be "farked" soon.

ll6 · 5 months ago

Enjoy the spike in traffic!

"Clicked 28538 times; posted to Main on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 at 3:05 PM"

Zig · 5 months ago

Damn, and I thought I had crazy dreams... I hate haveing them doubled up nightmares like that, you think it's over and damnit, it got you again.....

Z

(I actually sleep late on weekends to see how crazy of a dream I can have, yea, I gotta get a life)

Brian from TN · 5 months ago

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." -Sigmund Freud-
I have similar dreams,though mine are not usually as graphic, and I just chalk it up to my subconscious keeping my conscience in check. It is it's way of processing and showing me the possible results of my decisions and it prepares me for the hell to follows should I have to make the hard decision

Brian from TN · 5 months ago

Conscience = conscious. Darn spell check..

FapFap · 5 months ago

Good, remember those dreams while your awake and at work. Obviously a lot of cops don't

MamaCarlina · 3 days ago

Oh, you know Son, you should be nicer to people. People wouldn't post nasty comments back to you then but you never learn, do you FagFag!

guest · 5 months ago

alcohol? firearm? mental disorder? Is this story about a hillbilly or a cop?
idea for a movie: Beverly Hillbilly Cop.

BioG · 5 months ago

So you probably were over the limit when you started driving

Brent Woodle · 5 months ago

You get the best replies once a story hits Fark.

Spike · 5 months ago

I was a cop for 6 years. No doubt this happens to everyone in law enforcement. Just another of the unseen things we deal with everyday that no one thinks about when you write them a ticket.

Joshua · 5 months ago

All of Teach's articles are the win.

The bumble · 5 months ago

Yeah i have one of these every once and while. Last time an evil magician was raping my sister in a giant hamburger building made out of pillows perched on the edge of a cliff. To get into the rooms you had to crawl between the layers of the hamburger. He took a shotgun to the stomach and we crawled out of the hamburger only to realize it was the wrong side and we fell off the edge of the cliff. When we hit the bottom I woke up to a toilet flush. I was all warm and moist with sweat. I was sitting in a hotel room in Italy. Matt was still asleep so i got up to get ready and fell off the bed and hit my head. The corner of a rocking chair popped a hole in the top of my head and i knocked out my front teeth. I started bleeding like crazy and was trying to put my head back together before I realized that the person in the bed wasn't Matt, it was the corpse of a six year old frozen in rigor mortis after being brutally raped by her father (a case file i had done some work on). Then i woke up on the floor.

Elrod · 5 months ago

Sir, you might want to check out www.emofree.com.
Download the manual.
Read it.
See if you think it might help -- it probably can.
It's weirder than snake's suspenders, but it works.
'Nuff said.

Ben Kinney · 5 months ago

Definitely not a laughing matter, though not a cop I am a vet who 15 years after action still have vivid dreams and even remember some, even though not as many as before. I have never read anything that you have written before but it sounds like, from one of the posts, that you are a regular contributor to this site. and this may be your best outlet. I wish you the best and can empathize with you.

"The Earl" · 5 months ago

There are many sites in which explain the meanings of dreams.
Lately I've been experiencing a lot of dreams and nightmares... I've had them since I can remember as a toddler... Most of it connects to things I avoid doing in my waking hours... Problems I don't address, issues... It's as if I refuse to let myself escape... They usually go awake once I've addressed the issue. I do however love dreams where I know I'm in a dream so much control

George · 5 months ago

This is why neanderthals shouldn't become cops. Tough-guys are mentally sound enough to handle the job. That's why the divorce rate is higher than average. That's why American cops act like thugs. Bunch of losers joining for all the wrong reasons.

scythemantis · 5 months ago

I....what? "Neanderthal" implies someone tough and thug-like. You say neanderthals shouldn't become cops, then say tough guys should, then say American cops are thugs. These are all the same thing. And what does ANY of it have to do with divorce?! For that matter, what does any of this have to do with the actual post? You're calling him a neanderthal for suffering nightmares?

Testdrive · 5 months ago

Neanderthals use words like "smattering"? You want "Tough Guys" to be cops so they wont act like "thugs"? Sounds like someone got a ticket recently. OR, maybe they're just stupid.
Weird article. Funny it went green on Fark.

obbop · 5 months ago

I succumbed to the relentless indoctrination by the politically correct mob and mass media etc. and am spewing the requisite knee-jerk rhetoric at the essay and all the comments.

Racists!!!! Bigots!!!! xenophobes!!!!

Assuredly card-carrying KKK members and neo-Nazis.

Joe · 5 months ago

I had the same dream last night, but I'm in the Army. My pistol's trigger was extremely loose up to the point it released the hammer, then it was impossible to pull. I can't remember what the bullet did when I was able to fire. I think I missed.

It's similar to the dreams about getting in a fist fight but your arms only move in Matrix-like slow motion...

scythemantis · 5 months ago

The entire description of the baby dream was a masterpiece of horror. You could write novels.

alexfreakinteach · 5 months ago

Instead, I write Columns. Go figure...but thank you all the same.

And to BioG? Of course I was, numbnut. Glad to see you took so much from this bit.

-Ofc. Alex 'Freakin' Teach