i had a dream that i was working on my research paper.
yeah, i know, i have interesting dreams. i even work when i’m sleeping.
i was in front of my new imac typing away. i should have known that was a dream, because i can’t get microsoft word to WORK on my new imac— that and the fact that me, the world’s worst typist, was typing away should have been a blatant indication that this wasn’t kansas.
anyway.
it seemed that i couldn’t type the words fast enough. the words and ideas were coming at me like rifle bullets. it was great. then, i remember telling myself in the dream that it was a dream… and that before i wake up to remember this one great idea. then i woke up, and wrote it down in the notebook that i keep right next to my alarm clock and glasses. i figured, “great. i’ll wake up in a few hours and i’ll have this great idea to insert into my REAL paper.”
so i wake up at 4:18am… my usual time. i realize that i never put my notebook next to the alarm clock. i dreamt that i was dreaming and then woke up. the waking up part was a part of the goddamn dream.
so i can remember everything about the dream except the one damn thing that i told myself to remember.
I have those dream in a dream things a lot. You’ll eventually get to the point where you know you’re dreaming in the dream although how you know that is beyond me.
FWIW, I can never usually remember them either.
The really frustrating ones are the ‘adult’ dreams where you wake up just before everything comes to fruition.
Last weekend, I was trying to get my graphic design portfolio finished and kept dreaming that I couldn’t get anything printed! Freaked the crap out of me because the place where I get most of my stuff printed did have an electrical problem and couldn’t print for a day!