So I have a lot of dreams.
Three nights ago I dreamed that I was traveling through a post-apocalyptic city with a group of nameless friends and Nano; we found an unoccupied apartment and hunkered down and I remember trying to open a can of soup with my keys, and wondering whether the glass doors that led to the balcony were safe from marauders. Two nights ago, I dreamed that I discovered by best friend’s fiance was cheating on her and what’s more, unrepentantly, and I had to be the one to tell her about it a week before their wedding. I also dreamed I worked at the UN library. Then last night, I dreamed I was once again running the orientation for interested students at my college paper, where I was EIC; then I dreamed that I was a rabbi trying to convince people that the Holocaust was about to happen again. I woke up halfway through a dream where my friend’s boyfriend was standing in my bathroom, chatting to me while I showered in a turquoise prom dress. I remember hoping my mother didn’t walk in as she’d legitimately think it strange.
I’m not telling you about these dreams in that, oh, look at the crazy things I dream, anyone want to interpret them? sort of way. I’m just wondering whether anyone else dreams this vividly, this crazily, every night. Some mornings I wake up exhausted from them. Is it something in my diet? Is there some sort of homeopathic remedy I should look into that, I don’t know, dampens the timbre of my dreams? Conrad once told me that kava kava makes you dream crazy, dreams like the ones I have all the time. Don’t even get me started on the one about the cat hookers.
It’d be nice to wake up and not have any memory of how crazy my brain is when it’s unleashed on my imagination.
Eesh. Yeah, I dream a lot like that, too. Last night, I dreamt that I went back to college, forgot to pack anything and didn’t know where any of my classes were, which totally panicked me because I must ALWAYS be prepared for EVERYTHING (hi! I’m a Virgo). I graduated in ’02. It can be exhausting, definitely. However, my dreams now are an improvement on the INSANE ones I had on the nic patch.
I want to hear about the cat hookers.
I had a run of weird dreams at a time when there was great stress in my life (you know, that one time), and I found that a cup of Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime pretty much got rid of them. Pretty much, not completely. My writing partner’s mother has something that Nancy and I call “drug tea” that she slips us when she thinks we need it, but I think it is probably illegal — Sleepytime is at least that.
What is kava kava?
Every night like clock work – all my life.