[UA] Dreamstuff

[Greg Stolze]

>What really annoys me, though, is sleep paralysis and dreams of waking.  If
>I fall asleep in an uncomfortable position on the couch, I'll sometimes
>dream that I wake up and roll over.  Then, I'll think about gettting up and
>doing something -- only problem is, I'm still lying, asleep on the couch,
>in that same uncomfortable position.  So, I'll wake up and roll over, and
>think about getting up.  But I'm still asleep in an uncomfortable position
>on the couch...

Oh man, those are TERRIBLE!  Especially if, like me, you periodically have
bouts of insomnia.  I know for a fact that there are times I've been sound
asleep, but dreaming that I was lying in bed wide awake WORRYING ABOUT NOT
GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP.  (Pull THAT bad melonfarmer on your local
oneiromancer.)

I had an interesting dream the other night.  I dreamed about an
ex-girlfriend of mine.  I wasn't married, in this dream, and I was in a
restaurant with her hand her new boyfriend, who was very tall and large.
The two of them kept aggressively mashing with one another.  In the dream,
I felt that it was particularly to make me jealous.

That's the PLOT of the dream, but there was also this sort of feeling to
it, an underlying assumption.  The me in that dream was a very different me
than the me I am: he was, in fact, the me I planned on being when I was
growing up.

Growing up, I always assumed that I'd be highbrow, that I'd sip wine, live
in a city (probably on the east coast), listen to classical music and write
serious novels about the human condition an people coming to grips with it.

Instead, I live in the suburbs, drink beer (or, in the winder, hard
liquor), listen to rock and rap, and write... well, y'all know what I
write.

At the beginning of the movie "Slacker", one of the characters muses about
the notion that dreams are glimpses into parallel universes.  It's very
tempting to view this dream as a peek at a path not taken.  (The
ex-girlfriend in the dream was very much more a wine-sip/east coast/human
condition type than Martha, my beloved wife.)  Particularly because the me
in that dream felt... well, maybe I'm reading things into it after the
fact, but he felt unhappy and very familiar with his unhappiness.  As if an
important piece of him was missing and had been for so long that he'd given
up on ever finding it.

>From my superior (or at least, happier) vantage point, I know that that
missing piece is suburban contentment -- something I've never consciously
sought but have just sort of stumbled into.  Who knew?

ObUA: Your character has a dream that gives him a glimpse into a life where
he ignored the occult, suppressed his trigger event and never followed up
on the weird stuff.  Go.

-G.

My son's a prodigy!  He entered his Terrible Twos at just eighteen months!

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