TheBanyanTree: Weird Dreams

[Jena Norton]

You have several novels there, except for our trip to China. That would have
to be a Monty Python-esque movie, I'm sure.

And I have bribed foreign cops to keep the Woofess out of trouble. It wasn't
with jam or jelly but with US police patches traded to Oz police.....

I love the teapot and clock and you arguing quantum mechanics.

Jena Norton

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When I was young, if someone asked me to describe the kinds of dreams I 
had at night, I would have told them that I never dream.  They, of 
course would have responded that everyone dreams, but I never remembered 
anything about them.  If my husband would wake me up, telling me I was 
dreaming, I thought he was crazy.  I wasn't dreaming - surely I would 
have an inkling of it.

Then shortly after I retired, I joined a women's study group and one of 
the books the group decided to work through was about interpreting 
dreams.  We were supposed to jot down a description of our dreams in a 
journal, and being the good girl who always tries to over-achieve, I 
started actually knowing that I was dreaming.  Sometimes I even managed 
to hang on to enough of the dream when I awoke to know what was 
happening, but only if I wrote something down immediately upon 
awakening.  I mean, before I yawned, stretched or blinked twice.  After 
the first 5 seconds, the dreams started to evaporate like morning mist.  
I therefore had very sketchy descriptions:
  -- meeting, naked, others embarrassed, I laughed
  -- being chased -- made me mad -- no idea who or why
  -- damn it, can't find whatever it was I was looking for
and one of my all time favorites - Cray computer lives in grandfather 
clock.  Had tea.  Discussed quantum mechanics with clock and teapot.  
Degenerated into name calling