Dreaming

After a very busy Sunday at church, I do my best to take Mondays off. If I can, I make the attempt to sleep a little longer on Monday mornings. Sometimes I don't get that opportunity, but today I did. I loved it.

Have you ever had the experience where you know you had many dreams while you were sleeping, but you couldn't remember a single one? I had the opposite experience last night. I woke up today and remembered several dream sequences from last night.

Here are the highlights of what went through my mind as I slept last night. Be forewarned.....it doesn't make any sense.

Sequence 1: My wife and I were in our mini-van. Because of the winter weather, it has been a little dirty. It was a sunny day and we decided to stop at the car wash. As I pulled through the bay, I realized that it was just the opening to an auto-parts store and I had to drive the van through the store in order to get to the washing bay. I drove through it, but at the end I found the entrance to a high school.

Sequence 2: While in the high school, I walked down to the dirt basement and found that someone had set up a flat screen TV and a wood-burning fireplace. The rest was all dirt. I wanted to watch a movie, but it was cold. I walked back upstairs and asked a teacher if I could borrow a grill lighter (so I could light the fireplace). He requested my student ID. Of course I didn't have one, so I fiddled through my wallet...pretending to be looking. In the meantime, someone handed me a pair of scissors. Since I couldn't find an ID, I walked back into the auto parts store with the scissors. In the store, there was a table where people could place anything that they had borrowed from the high school, and the store would return it for them. I placed the scissors on the table and left.

Sequence 3: After that, Andrea and I were parked on the street in front of my grandmother's old house. After a moment of sitting in the car, we noticed that some of her old neighbors were fighting in a car, not far from us. It looked violent and the woman was trying to get away from the guy. I walked up to their car and threatened the guy. I told him that everything he did was going to be videotaped by my wife (obviously a reference to our new camera). He then became quite aggravated and came after me. I was fearful that he was going to try to find Andrea and the camera, so I lead him away from our van and after a few minutes, I was able to calm him down and talk to him. He assured me that his behavior would improve.

Soon after that, I woke up.