Dream Guys

[ricevermicelli]

Early this morning, I dreamt that I had just begun a relationship with two new people. I was enjoying it a lot. I had that whole new relationship buzz going when I woke up, and chose to hit the snooze alarm because I thought, with just a few more minutes, I could round everyone up for some important conversations.

I got some good snuggles from the imaginary boys in those eight minutes, and when the alarm went off again, I was still pretty buzzed. A nice way to start the morning, except that we hadn't managed to have the important conversations, and in my dream, I hadn't cleared the imaginary boys with danceboy, and he seemed sort of justifiably miffed. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to have relationship-defining conversations with three separate people while wrangling a baby and re-wallpapering an imaginary apartment in time for a party. Anyway. I filed it, mentally, as stuff to work on with danceboy and the imaginary boys, and off I went, planning an afternoon nap to wind up these details.

By the time I got to daycare, I had realized that danceboy (also imaginary for these purposes) was probably more than miffed. And that the imaginary boys were planning to move, and seemed to have some issues in their primary relationships.

My entire imaginary relationship went from NRE to dumb psychodrama in under an hour.

danceboy says this is silly. He says I should nap. He also says that next time I wake up all NRE buzzed, I could wake him.

Comments

[drwex]

Your husband is wise.

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Kim once woke up feeling surprisingly upset with me because of a dream she'd had. Apparently, I had randomly slept with a friend of ours and then seemed completely oblivious to why Kim might be unhappy about it: my objection "What? It was only sex," didn't go over too well.

Fortunately, she was awake enough to recognize that I wasn't actually responsible for dream-me's behavior and she managed to keep her annoyance nicely in check until her emotions sorted out which bits were real. (I apologized profusely on behalf of dream-me as soon as she told me the story, just to be safe.) We still joke about it from time to time: Kim's subconscious hooked me up with someone I'd never really been attracted to.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, I had a conversation with danceboy in which it briefly appeared that my imaginary extracurricular activity occurred in his bed. That annoyed him a little. I corrected this misunderstanding and apologized.

Same deal, basically. Which seems silly, but too silly to refuse to do.

[cos]

You can snooze the alarm and fall back asleep into the same dream you were just having??

[bookdivalia.livejournal.com]

I do this too. As long as I don't totally get up I can usually finish up my dream.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's not 100%, but it very often works.

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

Given how difficult I remember it being to have relationship-defining conversations with one person while my other entanglements were limited to college classes and a visiting pre-frosh brother, I can only imagine how difficult that would be, although I'm willing to believe any claims of difficulty you want.

You have interesting dreams. If, after an intervening most-of-a-day, you are able to return to the same dream in a nap, I am very impressed. I sometimes return to the same dream after a partial wake-up, but rarely after a complete wake-up. (Usually, the dreams I return to are not ones I wanted to be in to begin with, so this is actually rather frustrating, since it means that I have to wake up completely to get rid of them, and then can't go back to sleep at all.)

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