I had to go to class at some college to make up for classes I missed when I was getting my A.A. And I had this little bedroom in a large on campus dorm that I shared with people I never met and never managed to attend class on time, but always went to find the instructor to get an extension or some kind of make-up work. In last night's dream, I went to a meeting of fans of Kurt Vonnegut to hear a speaker discuss his work. But when I got there, there was no speaker, and everyone was just talking about politics and war, and then the discussion switched to Harlan Ellison, and I said that I have a signed copy of one of his books, and that somehow made me the highest ranking idiot in the room, so that when I left, others followed me and kept asking me questions like I knew something. But all I wanted to do was get back to my room and lie down. But the school was impossibly huge and my building was so far away that walking might take hours. And just when I would feel alone with my thoughts, one of the Ellison guys would pop up and ask me something, so I had to ditch him. And then I woke up.
I haven't had one of these dreams for years. I used to have three different series, this college one where I had to make up some classes and these others about streams and water parks; here are my last notes from a few years ago:
Details-- a large body of water where lots of people go and you can rent a small plane that takes off from the water and I flew one several times. and others have gone with me. I've done this for years. I fly south for 30 minutes and land on the water (I have no memory of using controls in the plane)
and I think we--how did we get from the plane to the land? because we walk along the stream and the water and there are signs that this is some nature preserve or state park but there are never any people around.
but I've been with someone else on this trip? who?
and then there's the water park--it has a really large parking lot, but I've always found a space right near the gate and there's often a line but I don't remember waiting in it. and one of the rides is some kind of haunted house with lots of rooms that you walk and ride through. one ride is in a large pool with several tracks like a roller coaster but ends in the water.
Now I understand why I only sleep for 5 hours at night. Any more and I have these dreams of these other lives. And I think that's what will kill me, avoiding those other lives. So I sleep less to keep the dreams in check and live this life, without sleep, which keeps me irritable and short-tempered.
So either way, the dreams will kill me. If I sleep 7-8 hours like I should, I dream of a life I don't have but seem to want. If I sleep less, I will get some disease that medical science says we get when we don't sleep.
But damn, I sure enjoy those walks along that stream.
