Tall Dreams

Last night I dreamed that I was very tall, over six foot four, so tall that I had to significantly duck every time I enter a room. I followed that dream up with some very ordinary processing dreams.
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Work Dreams

Last night I dreamed I was trying to confirm the content and location of a work meeting. It wasn't so much an anxiety dream as it was a processing dream. I woke this morning with a simple prayer for the patience to make it through a work day. With my healing foot the pace of the day must, of necessity, be slow-slow-slow.
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The Lecture Hall

I dreamed that I was teaching a class on behalf of another professor. In order to get to the assigned lecture hall I had to lead the students through a warren of classrooms, offices, stairwells and ladders. It was a complete maze but I knew exactly where I was going because of experience. The dream was not about the lecture, but rather about the journey to the lecture hall.
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I Dream of Baseball

I dreamed I was playing baseball, in left field. There were two runners on (second and third) and the batter hit a hot fast ground ball. It squirted past the third baseman and I moved to intercept it when it hit a rock of some sort and shot straight up into the air (definitely a bad bounce). I had to charge up on it, catch it as it fell and then try and throw the runner out, which I could not do (due to those few precious seconds lost to the bad bounce). The runner on second advanced to third and the runner on third scored, ending the game.
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Road Trips and Crime

Two dreams last night. In the first I dreamed that I was on a long road trip driving across some arid and empty terrain. In the second I dreamed that I was reading the paper only to come across a story that someone I knew was a victim of a brutal beating.
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I Dream I Work In An Electronics Store

Last night I had a very involved and detailed dream about working in an electronics store (similar to Best Buy).  I am not entirely sure what I did in the store, but I seemed to be in some sort of supervisory position. I was wandering around and talking to people. (Wandering around and talking to people is one of the key components of good management in “The Book of Rod”.)  I was having an enjoyable day at work in the dream.

I Dream of a Nail

A very active dream life last night. The main dream I remember on waking is that I was making my way off the back patio of a cajun bar and I stepped on a nail that penetrated my right foot. Friday I had surgery on my right foot to correct a hammer toe, so I am sure the two are related, though I am not exactly sure how cajuns got involved. I then dreamed I was returning to a strangely familiar motel.
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Two Dream Fragments

I woke with the memory of two dream fragments. First, I dreamed of the actor "William Powell" (as Nick Charles in "The Thin Man" - http://www.filmsite.org/thin.html). Then, I dreamed of a young girl with a basket of fallen flowers, which she was giving to people and in one case put three autumn flowers into a hatband. There was no unifying narrative, just dream fragments.
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Chris Achilleos Dreams

A restless night of tossing and turning. I dreamed that I was in some sort of great hall, more of a civic rather than religious building, and the entire ceiling, which was a series of domes, was done in the style of Chris Achilleos.

http://www.chrisachilleos.co.uk/
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The Last Sunday of Vacation

It is a foggy dawn on the last Sunday of vacation. I was woken this morning by a passionate and emotional discussion by a pair of young adults on the sidewalk outside of the apartment complex - one of the drawbacks of condensed urban living and summer nights spent with the windows open.

I recalled a pair of dreams. The first was nostalgic and involved memories of playing on a tractor as a child and pretending it was a spaceship. In the second dream I was some sort of criminal and was captured twice due to carelessness on my part (trusting the wrong person) and was able escape both time by taking bold advantage of the carelessness of other people.

All in all it has been a good vacation - I can't say I am excited about going back to work, but I can say that I am ready. At some point today I may log in and take a look at what I am sure is going to be a massive email queue. (But even as I type that I realize the odds of it happening are pretty small!)

I think the day will be spent mostly in lazy pursuits and in preparing for the return to the cycles of the working world with its peculiar sense of rhythm. A morning shower, breakfast, and then a load or two of laundry seem like an appropriate start.
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