Sleep betrayal
Dreams are traitors that betray you while you sleep. They cause feelings that are achingly awkward beyond that pillowy realm.
I remember once dreaming about a perfect – but imaginary – girl who I fell in love with. For the next few days I suffered from a crush, which was ridiculous as she didn’t exist.
A couple of nights ago I woke with a similar feeling, but it was a girl I know this time, which made it all the more unwanted and confusing. I was hanging around the garage of the house I grew up in and she came and gave me a kiss. Then she walked off to the utility room for some reason – maybe she wanted to tumble-dry her clothes or eat some dog biscuits.
But that’s how dreams betray you, because next time I see that girl I’m going to be uncomfortable, having had an experience of her that she knows nothing about. And that seems a bit unchivalrous. Still, maybe I’ll see her boobs next time.
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I’ve congratulated myself on my ability to get past something – so as not to have a cardio-vascular accident before I’m middle aged – only to have the thing not just brought up when I go to sleep, but dramatised; following a ‘24’/’ER’ formula of serial worst case scenarios with me in the lead.
It’s just your brain reminding you that everything leaves its mark; like documents you thought you’d deleted that get pulled off your dumped hard-drive in Nigeria, after the council shipped it there to get buried.
Comment by Benjamin Knight — 30/01/07