The Dream Thread

[Eddie]

Had another one of those dreams where I got up, tried to turn on the lights, found out they wouldn't turn on, then woke up. I have that dream all the time.

That's a dream about trying to wake up. You're trying to return to the conscious world but can't.

Last night was crammed full of dreams for me. I woke up after every dream, and they were all so vivid I had to struggle to realize they were dreams (as opposed to conscious reality). In one of them, I was reunited with my old dance troupe, and we flew over to Scotland for a performance tour. Instead of landing at at a major airport like Pickwick, we landed on the water in a small harbor of a seaside resort town (must have been a float plane). We disembarked the plane and entered a harborside amusement park that was geared mainly toward kids (arcades and trained dolphin shows, etc). Then some nice lady from a local travel agency put me in a 3-wheeled pedicab and took me across town to another amusement park geared mainly toward adults. It was very crowded and I feared I would get separated from the rest of the group....which was exactly what happened. They had boarded the tour bus and left, minus me. So I walked back to the travel agency for help, as my luggage, passport and everything else were gone on the bus. It was about 5:00 on a Friday afternoon by then and all the ladies at the travel agency wanted to leave to go the pub, so I was imposing upon them. They started pulling out some documents and asking me questions, and then I realized I had also lost my reading glasses, and was getting very frustrated and annoyed with the turn of events....then the dream ended, and I woke up, but it took me about 5 minutes to realize that I was home in bed, and not stranded on the coast of Scotland.