I blame over-the-counter cold medicine.
You all know about my dreams, or at least you do if you were around for an earlier thread about dreams.
But when I’m tripping on Benadryl, things can get even odder. For example:
I’m driving in my car. An unidentified woman is in the passenger seat. Traffic is not moving. I’m very patient, but traffic is at a stand-still. I wonder where I’m going, or how late I’m going to be when I get there. The car in front of me hasn’t budged for a minute. On both sides of my car, other cars are also motionless. It isn’t just my lane. Nobody is moving. And yet, I am strangely calm.
My passenger speaks. “If you want to wait here, that’s fine. I’ll be back in a sec” she says, and without pausing or giving me an opportunity to say anything, opens her door, gets out, and walks away. (Safety-conscious readers please note that had this not been a dream, she would have had to have undone her seatbelt first — I insist on my passengers wearing them — but this detail is absent from the dream.)
I let her go. I don’t run after her, but I am very concerned. What if traffic starts to move? I can’t just wait here. If the car in front of me starts to move, I’ll have to go, or the people behind me will be upset. How is she going to find me again?
But traffic doesn’t move, and a few minutes later, she opens the car door and climbs back in.
I start to explain my concern and express my relief that traffic hadn’t moved, because otherwise I would have had to have left her, but she interrupts.
“Don’t be silly. We’re parked in a parking lot.“
And we are.
And now comes the strange part. At this moment, I suddenly wake, leap from my bed, and run to my office, utterly convinced that this dream has deep meaning and must be immediately shared with all the denizens of the internet. And here we are.
So, what’cha got for me? Any interesting dreams lately? Anyone else “Riding the Green Sloth” (O slang for taking NyQuil…)?
p.s. I hope you don’t mind being referred to as denizens of the internet. I meant it in the best possible way.
