Real Dreams

An odd occurrence has happened 2 of the last 3 nights to me: I'm asleep and dreaming (overnight, of course) and the dream will suddenly be snapped into real life.  One of these recent dreams was just plain weird (the kind where you begin to explain it to someone and it just makes no sense at all and they are annoyed rather quickly) and the other was...well, we won't get into it.  Equally an odd process of events, I'll say that, and that, too, had a moment of reality in a world of very much not reality.

Most of my dreams, honestly, are stuff like "I found a golden retriever in a yard, and we were playing."  Or it's funny, or funny to me because these can be oh so personal.  I've also, over the years, had dreams about work, one thing that is bad enough because you've had enough in the conscious world to have it invade your other thoughts.  Thankfully, that hasn't happened in some time, and what a coincidence: that goes with a better job, doesn't it?!

At this stage in life, for better or worse (actually, worse) so much of my time is locked in: there is this shit to do, or that, at a certain time, and that takes so much of the day.  Actually, this is more on the weekends, and surprisingly it's because there must be something planned now, not just randomness.  I remember when I first realized this and wrote about it, and I suppose some of that still applies.  But it wasn't invading my dreamtime.  Which, on a 24 hour scale, is even more time of my life.

Look, I'm still watching these trash horror films, going through the list...and believe you me, I figured there would be many MANY images that would make a reappearance in a dream and...nope.  Not at all, or at least nothing yet.  I guess it's just stuck in the back of my brain with so many other random things, only to pop up out of nowhere when I'm, like, walking the dog or at the grocery store and then I burst out laughing.  Arthur Bach did the same thing and he had to explain "Oh, sometimes, I just think funny things!"  

But tonight, I wonder if I'll be on another wavelength, going along with whatever is happening and then all of a sudden, dream Trip will think "wait, is today pick-up at 4:30 or 5?" and...doesn't matter how out of it I am or not.  I'm awake.