You Tell Me

Can somebody please tell me why I have dreams like the one I had this morning sometime between 4:00 and 5:15 AM?

I was staying at my parent's home and had gone grocery shopping. While out, I called home to ask if there was anything else anyone wanted while I was still shopping.  Whoever answered the phone told me that Angelina Jolie was over, and she needed some arugula lettuce . . .

I got home and went to sleep on the back porch.  My daughter, in the bedroom off the porch, woke me around 4:00 AM and she had somehow gone from 16 years old back to around 5. I put her back to bed and told her I planned to finish out the night in the basement where it was "cool and dark."

I don't think I ever made it to the basement, because next thing I remember, Sparky was taking me for a drive along the beach.  We were in a Jeep.  He pointed out a spot on the NYC skyline and said, "Look, you can still see the Twin Towers from here."  And I did. 

Next, I saw a beautiful shimmering silver-gray tree, with no leaves, like driftwood.  I reached behind me to get my camera, only to discover we were no longer in the Jeep but were wading in waist-deep water that seemed to be a tidal pool off the beach we were at.  I couldn't find the camera, of course.

A nudge to my back caused me to turn around and find a donkey pushing me.  He was completely underwater which made total sense to me after Sparky declared that it was "an aquatic donkey."  Egad. 

The ending is a bit anticlimactic.  I was still in the water and donkey was still behind me and I was looking into some sort of underwater (but dry) room made of cinder blocks, complete with very authentic day-light lighting and curtains.

Then the alarm went off and I returned to my very ordinary day.

Any ideas?

Comments

[CNL]

ahhhh... you really need to avoid garlic bread before bed...

[Rick(lude)]

Dear Upset Person,

It seems to me that you have a very active mind when in an awake state of being and also while in sleep mode.

Though the dream was rather vivid and highly fictional in it's content, it dosen't seem to be of a horrorable nightmare type. Just the subcon. id putting facts from your life together in illogical ways. So, have no fear.

I once had a huge bird with "fruit" colored bands around it's body and wearing a straw hat with a large feather plume, chase me thru my home town. After I stopped running, it told me it only wanted to be my friend.

I never could figure that one out.

Good luck with yours.

Rick

[scorpy]

Hm. The donkey is obviously your subconscious telling you that you need the upcoming break/vacation more than you know. It's "pushing you" towards that relaxing retreat.

The rest, I don't have a clue about, other than it going hand-in-hand with needing the rest.

[Bekah]

I dunno. I have weird ass dreams every night, and Mark is so tired of me saying, "I had REALLY weird dreams last night!" I'm only allowed to say "I dreamt last night," the weirdness is implied.