My Weird Dream Brain

I have lots of bizarre dreams every night, but in the last two weeks, they have taken a really goofy turn. For the past few weeks I have been playing Mahjong Titans on my computer for an hour or so before I go to bed, so my weird dream brain converts even the most mundane things into a mahjong game. The other night, I was "grocery shopping" in my dream and I was doing it, of course, mahjong style. It looked something like this:

Since I am lucky in that I only have to be woken up once a week, the other six days, I get to sleep until I wake up naturally. Or I should say "naturally." Because there is nothing natural about the way I wake up most days. What happens is, instead of just slowly waking up, my weird dream brain will insert something outrageous into my dream to get me to wake up. And if that doesn't work, it will just keep going. This morning I was dreaming I was in some sort of old west setting complete with costumes and everything. We were all from the present but for some reason we were supposed to "play along" and pretend we were all from that time. It was all going along fine until one lady couldn't find her shoes and slipped on some purple jellies like these:

It totally broke the whole mood of whatever we were trying to do, but it didn't wake me up. So just after that, a giant fake plastic bright green alligator head that was about the size of a large truck burst through the wall. THAT woke me up.

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My husband gets a kick out of the strange dreams I have and the strange wake up things like the alligator crack me up. I usually spend the first 10 minutes of my day shaking my head and saying something to myself like, "Hummingbirds with automatic weapons! Heh, heh, heh."