Nov 29 2011
Ugh
It’s not even 7:00 am and it’s already been a really excellent day so far.
My excellent day started last night, with a triple feature of nightmares. Have you ever noticed that when you’re having a great dream and get woken up from it, you can never get back into it when you go to sleep, but if it’s a bad one, no problemo?
Rob says that dreams come from things you see during the day, but these were: a tsunami where I was in the Fontana Towers* in San Francisco; a repeat, where I was climbing to the top of a building in Chinatown via fire escape to escape tsunami re-run; and being trapped in a high school with a bunch of other people.
Sometimes I really worry about that crazy gene.
I woke up to the alarm clock flashing and could not believe it was time to get up and masquerade as a responsible adult after that marathon of terror and weirdness.
I went grumpily downstairs to find the boys hunting a mouse. Not even a mouse hunt could stop Audrey from catapulting out the front door into the darkness, and as I put the outside lights on, I saw that it’s very foggy out. Great. Worst. Driving. Ever.
Back in the house, I made coffee and the boys caught the poor mouse. I opened all the doors and tried to shoo them outside. Eventually they went out, at which point the coffee was hardly necessary.
It’s going to be a great day!
*Home of Eddie Fisher. John worked with a guy who met him in the elevator and invited him to a party, but the guy didn’t go. Talk about a missed opportunity! Worth it for the Liz Taylor gossip alone.
6 Responses to “Ugh”
Do hope some of the fog lifted before you had to drive. Sorry about your nightmares…just horrid.
jx
Bummer to start the day with frantic chaos. Wouldn’t it be marvelous if the exertion of our dreams was like an aerobic class, 20 min nightmare = 20 mins of exercise !!!
Lu – So good to hear from you! And that is math I could get behind! 🙂
Joy – It had lifted a bit. Just had to be careful!
Rob is partly right, dreams and or nightmares are the result of what we have seen, our thoughts or experienced during the day. There have been many studies on dreams and the end results were simple. Dreams is a defense mechanism to keep our mind and body sound. Although not always pleasant, they protect us from acting upon certain things to keep us safe. What man does not understand, he fears and what man fears, he destroys. Better to live these nightmares in a virtual world than acting them out during the day.
Hope things picked up; there’s nothing worse than having a glum outlook at the beginning of the day. Something about self-fulfilling prophecies.
Wine sometimes helps. After noon, of course.
Wine is sounding pretty good right about now. It’s 12:02 after all! 🙂