Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Recursive Dreams

This morning I had a hard time waking up. I kept snoozing my alarm clock, and would struggle to wake up only to feel my eyes shut and I would fall back asleep. I sat up and picked up my Bible, to try and start my morning reading and start getting up that way. My eyes kept drooping, and I couldn't stay awake. It was just so hard to wake up!

Then I woke up. My Bible was where I had put it the night before. I was lying in bed with the covers pulled up.

In the midst of not being able to wake up, I had dreamt about not being able to wake up!

I remember thinking that the book I was reading wasn't familiar to me, "Memory" or something like that. But somehow my dream-thoughts tried to make sense of that.

3 comments:

april said...

I've done that--even dreamt i was done with my shower and getting ready to brush my teeth--only to have the alarm go off. Very disturbing! :)

Aquajag said...

I've had those too! There are Calvin&Hobbes comics about that as well. Must be a common phenomenon... perhaps we should develop a new theory of dreams: they are here to torture us!

Unknown said...

talk to your Dad about dreams, he has them very vividly and regularly. Maybe it's hereditary? I on the other hand tend to have screamer types and wake up terrified.