More Strange Dreams

Sometimes I have strange dreams- ones that mystify me or that foretell days to come. Last night was no exception.

I woke up this morning completely grossed out and confused. Really the dream wasn't that gross but it totally gave me the heebie jeebies.

In the dream I was having a picnic with a guy that I used to be friends with (who knows why, I haven't spoken to this guy in years or even thought about him in what seems like millenia). We were sitting at a park on a blanket that my great grandmother made and I was getting all of the food out of the basket. I looked up and this guy's face was right in my face and he started talking about how he was in love with me and that we should be together. I pushed him away and asked, "What about your wife?", which he completely ignored and began to undress... outside... in the park. I got up and started running to my car and jumped in and drove away as fast as I could.

Then I ended up downtown and went to some restaurant where they had a huge table with donuts arranged on large trays all over the place and everyone was eating different kinds of donunts and pastries. I grabbed a plain donut with chocolate icing and sprinkles and shoved it in my mouth as I walked through the restaurant. I made my way to the back door and walked out onto a patio of sorts. Waiting for me on this patio was now-naked guy from the park, along with other naked people having a nudist party. I turned around and ran back out to the front of the restaurant and called my mom and told her about how everyone was naked at the donut place and that I was coming home because everyone was losing their minds.

Then I woke up.

In real life this guy from my dream is now married and has kids and I'm pretty sure he doesn't ever think about me- mostly because I don't think about him.

Also, I didn't eat before bed, or watch any tv or movies, or read anything strange. Actually, I read an article in a magazine about recipes for summer grilling so it makes no sense to me how any of this came up in my dreams... well, maybe I understand the donuts thing. I haven't eaten a donut in such a long time and they are SUPERB.

Anyway, what weird dreams have you had lately?

Spiders and Sleeping and Colds, OH MY!

I thought I'd escaped it.

I thought that for once I was the only one not having to deal with it.

But I was wrong.


I had strange dreams last night. I fell asleep watching Craig Ferguson (because that's what I do), but I was in that strange state between awake and sleep and I was aware of that. Then I started to dream about playgrounds and a quaint little town that I've never been to and mechanic shops and SPIDERS.

I. HATE. SPIDERS.

In my dream I was sitting under a gazebo with my mom because it was raining and there were spider webs everywhere up in the rafters. Then I looked up above me and there was a disgusting spider hanging out on it's web. And then I looked over to my side and there was an even bigger, fatter spider just hanging out. Then my leg touched something and I looked down and there were spider webs clinging to me!!!!

OH THE HORROR.

So I woke up twisting around in my sheets and blankets, flailing my leg and thinking I'm being touched by spiders.

In reality I woke up with a nasty cold.

I'm the only so far this season at work and at home that hasn't gotten some illness. I thought I got off easy this year because I'm usually the one with the 3-month lingering cold on top of the flu on top of strep-throat.

I'm doubling up on the multivitamins and Emergen-C drink powder. I'm now going to go home and wash my sheets, just in case there are any lingering spiders.