Friday, July 10, 2009

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."

9 comments:

VioletSky said...

What is even stranger is finding pictures on the internet that match your dreams. Freaky. But funny.

Jazz said...

I have told you before, haven't I, that I adore your brain.

geewits said...

Violetsky,
~~Uhm, actually, I had to make the mahjong picture, but there were plenty of purple jellies.

Jazz,
~~You are a true connoisseur of eccentricities.

Daryl said...

I thought I had the weird dream market cornered ... just this morning I woke with a start because I was sure the talking fire hydrant was going to trip me and I would fall into the sink hole next to the curb ... no costumes or purple jellies here .. just weird talking fire hydrants ...

geewits said...

Daryl,
~~That's different! I've had infants, cats, dogs, birds, fish, dragons and space aliens talk to me, but I don't think I've conversed with an inanimate object. I hope your weird dream brain did not give ideas to my weird dream brain.

Anonymous said...

I just get woken up every day by my cat head-butting me and breathing smelly cat breath in my face. Just once I'd like to be woken up by alligators or broccoli or fire hydrants

Mr. Jazz said...

Cheers to you too my dear (re: Jazz's walk in the hood Part II).

Your brain works in a strange and
mysterious way...and I'm sure glad I get to sample that on a regular basis thru those unforgiving minutes. Have a great weekend!

Elaine said...

Are Jellies still around? I had a pair when I was a kid! I lost one of the pair in the swimming hole out behind my friend's house in New Jersey one summer. We searched and searched for it. It wasn't that big a swimming hole, damnit!

Dang, memories.

geewits said...

Xup,
~~I so miss that! I always slept with a cat when I was young. If I woke up like that now, I'd wake up with both eyes swollen shut and a rash on my face. Count yourself lucky.

Mr. Jazz,
~~You are too too kind.

Elaine,
~~Thanks for stopping by. I have no idea about the shoes. I dreamed about them and found the picture through the magic of internet. I've never owned a pair, but I somehow recognized them in my dream.