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Most of the time I don’t remember my dreams. When I wake up, I think to myself, “don’t forget this part of the dream where….”, and then the next second, I forget what I told myself to remember. If I do remember something, I usually lose a lot of the details of the dream within 10 minutes.

In the dreams that I do remember, I have noticed a couple of recurring themes.

• Colours/Light and Dark – I can recall the colour of buildings, walls, clothing, etc. If a room is dark or it’s bright I’ll notice it. This is a detail I can remember more often than say, faces of people. For example, in the last dream that I can remember, I was walking from the parking lot into a plaza. I passed by a shop with a green awning and yellow letters on it. I don’t know what kind of shop it was, and I didn’t even go inside that shop – I went into the store next to it.

• Racing – I can remember at least 4 dreams where I’m in a race. This started around the time I started watching The Amazing Race (a reality TV show where teams race around the world) last season. Sometimes I’m in a hurry and panicking, and sometimes I’m relaxed and taking my time. I’m always matched up with a partner to race with in these dreams.

• Math Class – I have had several dreams where I’m taking a math class. They were all in different classrooms, with different teachers. I skipped 99% of the lessons. In one dream, I looked in my calendar and noticed that I had a math paper due for that class, and I didn’t even care about writing it and handing it in. In another dream, the classroom was at the top of a building, and I had to climb a long flight of stairs (in a dark, narrow staircase) to get to it. I started climbing the stairs, and then decided it wasn’t worth it, and then went to another class! (I think it was art class.)

• Taking a bus and getting off at the wrong stop – I have dreamed this happening a couple of times, and near places I’ve lived in. I’d get off at a stop before or after the one I was supposed to get off and then walk back. In another one, I was in a race! I got off, and the bus driver told me to take another bus, so I walked a block or two in some downtown area.

Strange hmmm? All of my dreams are strange really. I can’t get any meaning from them.

In my dream this morning, I am studying for an exam. Somehow though I go from studying to writing a paper. It isn’t easy. I start sweating. I have no idea what I’m writing about.

After a while I decide to go for lunch. There’s a long lineup at a fast food place. The walls of the fast food plate are yellow. I plan on ordering a burger, fries, and a coke. When I get to the front of the line I change my order to a burger, a coke, and a salad.

I take my tray of food and find a table next to the wall. I sit down, but I don’t eat the food. Soon I’m joined by Cindy, who sits across from me. She asks me how my essay is going. I reach into my bag (where’d my bag come from? I don’t know) and hand her the essay. The essay is crumpled up and wrapped around a red umbrella.

In another part of my dream, I’m in a store (I’m thinking the Gap). All the clothes are in flourescent colours, colours that I don’t like. There are rows and rows of bright yellow (think highlighter colour) cordoroy jackets with matching pants. The other colours in that store are blue and pink.

On Friday night, I had a fever and no matter what I did I couldn’t fall asleep. As I lay there, I started daydreaming. I was in an Olympic race, a race on the track where there were 4 laps. If I was able to run (or complete) all 4 laps, then I’d finally be able to sleep. I simultaneously ‘ran’ around this track and cheered myself on. Whenever I reached the final lap, though, I’d be too pooped out and be unable to finish it. I was soooo close, three-quarters of the way to sleep! And I wanted to sleep so badly! As Shakespeare said in Macbeth, I wanted “the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care.” (I had to put this quote in :p, it’s one of the fav quotes from that play. I even thought about it that night.)

Every time I quit the race, I’d turn and settle on another position to sleep in. Then I would think, “let’s try this thing again”. It became an endless cycle. I was in bed from around 12:30 to 10:00am, so you can imagine how many times I went through that.

I was aware what was happening, I knew that I didn’t *have* to complete any kind of race to fall asleep. My mind was playing games with me, but I couldn’t find a way to ignore it. That ‘dream’ always came back. I really thought I was becoming crazy that night. But you know, I also had a fever too, so maybe the correct word would be delirious.

I had a dream this morning, and although I don’t remember much of what happened, I do remember who was in the dream! There were a lot of movie actors.

- Jennifer Garner
- Brad Pitt
- Elijah Wood

And last but not least, though he isn’t a celebrity, a guy in my Year 7 and 8 class. I have to say he looked sooo cute.