Dreamly

 I don't know a whole lot about dream. I think they are pretty darned interesting, though! I remember analyzing all my friends' dreams growing up, trying to figure out what they meant. Usually my friends had dreams like "I dreamed that I showed up for class naked" or "I was falling for hours and finally landed in a bed of fire ants" Those seem pretty straight forward. I guess. "You need to study better for the test, because subconsciously you know you are unprepared" and "Don't jump off cliffs directly over fire ant beds". Simple enough!

 Mine are ALWAYS nonsense. They always feature real people from my life putting me in bizarre situations that could never possibly occur in real life. For instance, last night:

 My dream started off that I was back in high school. The school I went to was a big ol' Catholic campus. Buildings were all spread out all over the place. Which made it a prime place for hide and seek. Which was fortunate because, in this dream, the main focus of my school was rigorous games of hide and seek. They were so dedicated to hide and seek, that if you were found too quickly, you could be kicked out of school! They weren't messing around. Well, my trusty buddy Liz and I were determined to win (or really just not lose) so we did the logical thing and got in my car and drove away. They can't find your hiding space if you aren't even on campus!

 Also, Liz and I were very concerned for the well-being of the kids on campus. We were worried the game was getting too rough for them. So, we snuck them away to play at a park. Somehow we found a bus, which she drove, and loaded all these kids up. I was going to follow in my car (which was the same car Count Olaf drove in "A Series of Unfortunate Events"). But, who should be waiting for me in my car? That guy who sometimes kidnaps me and takes me to his weirdo house out in the country! (this was one of those weird dream memories, somehow in my dream I had a memory of this happening before...very Inception-y)

 Anyway, apparently this had happened to me before. This guy would come kidnap me and if I could find my way out of his house he would let me go. So, we are driving, driving, driving until finally we come to a house where it looks like a giant yard sale is going on. Just crap everywhere. So much junk! Turns out, that is just how his house looks, no yard sale. Well, I am stuck inside this house for a good long while, until "ding-dong", the doorbell rings! Of course, it is my friend Celia and her baby. They are selling lemonade door-to-door in order to raise funds for Gabriel's (the baby) baptism. I am pretty sure those are free, but dream me apparently knows no logic. Well, answering the door was just the solution I needed to get out of this house. So, I bought a glass of Celia's lemonade and strolled out the front door. Why I needed to wait for someone to ring the door, I do not know.

 And, that is how Celia and Gabriel saved my life with a glass of lemonade. Great story, right?

:)