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plumtreeblossomLast night I wanted to see what it felt like to get a full 8 hours sleep. I went to bed at 8:00PM. That left me 8 hours plus 2 extra for flip-flopping and laying awake. So peculiar going to bed while it's still light out.
The first dream involved watching someone smoothing lotion all over their body. They wanted me to watch, but also wanted me to stay hidden under a blanket because other people were watching too, and officially I wasn't supposed to be there. Then the person had some sort of melodramatic guilt breakdown, and it left me feeling foresaken.
The next dream was yet another variation of my re-occuring dream. Same template as always -- out of town for a holiday with my biological family, discover I'm late getting back home, miss plane home and panic. I must have had this dream template 5000 times now. I'm so sick of it. Even within the dreams, I sometimes think "Not this again!" I'm beginning to worry if maybe I have some sort of brain circuit imbalance, to have the same dream 5000 times.
The final dream was sad and unusual -- I dreamed/drempt that I didn't get hired permanently for the temp position I'm now working. I never have work dreams, and this one was far too realistic and discouraging. When I woke up, it took a few minutes to remember that it wasn't real.
So, that was my experiment in getting 8 hours of sleep in a night. All in all, my conclusion is that there are better ways to spend my quiet nights than this.
The first dream involved watching someone smoothing lotion all over their body. They wanted me to watch, but also wanted me to stay hidden under a blanket because other people were watching too, and officially I wasn't supposed to be there. Then the person had some sort of melodramatic guilt breakdown, and it left me feeling foresaken.
The next dream was yet another variation of my re-occuring dream. Same template as always -- out of town for a holiday with my biological family, discover I'm late getting back home, miss plane home and panic. I must have had this dream template 5000 times now. I'm so sick of it. Even within the dreams, I sometimes think "Not this again!" I'm beginning to worry if maybe I have some sort of brain circuit imbalance, to have the same dream 5000 times.
The final dream was sad and unusual -- I dreamed/drempt that I didn't get hired permanently for the temp position I'm now working. I never have work dreams, and this one was far too realistic and discouraging. When I woke up, it took a few minutes to remember that it wasn't real.
So, that was my experiment in getting 8 hours of sleep in a night. All in all, my conclusion is that there are better ways to spend my quiet nights than this.
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Date: 2004-08-17 07:17 am (UTC)My recurring dream is that I'm back in my high school.
When I was in college, I would dream that I'd been *sent* back to high school, to actually attend classes for some reason, and was experiencing it as a blissful respite: "You mean this is ALL I have to do?? Aww yeah!"
Since college, the dream is usually that I'm back in the building, only it's completely unfamiliar and I don't know where anything is anymore [N.B.: the actual building now *has* been totally remodeled and added onto, but that's not what the dream is about, I don't think], and I'm supposed to be somewhere but I don't have any information about my schedule, and when the bell rings I'm out in the deserted hallway, and I have to skulk around trying not to get caught out-of-bounds while I figure out where and what I'm supposed to be. It's only mildly anxious as anxiety dreams go, but it does come back over and over.
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Date: 2004-08-17 08:07 am (UTC)You're probably right, it's good to let those dream "purges" just happen as they will. They happen during times of stress and seldom have anything to do with real-life matters at hand. They do make me glad when the night is over, though.