Often when I wake up in the morning, I’m left with “dream residue”… just before reality completely settles back in, my mind is still working busily away on the dreams I had the night before. This is normal, I’m sure… but just lately, something interesting has been happening, that never happened, to me, personally, before. I was wondering if it happened with anyone else, and what interesting things did you come away with:
Just before waking up, I hear my dream voice* talking to me, almost desperately, telling me to remember something. Sometimes I remember it, other times I don’t. I certainly don’t sweat it when I don’t. What makes me laugh is the things I do remember - and wonder why in the world did my dreamego think it so gosh darn important that it warns me frantically to not forget it? For example, just this morning, before I woke up, I was “reminded” not to forget these words - get this: “Kayser e Kaiser e Chiara”. WTF? I don’t know what the “e” means, or even if I spelled the words correctly. Is Chiara the Kaiser of Kayser? Another morning, I woke up trying to hang onto a weird bunch of letters I had seen in my dream “RHIONO” and my dream voice* tells me “It’s an anagram you must solve!” I wake up and think, cool, I left myself a puzzle. The best I can figure is “Orion H”, like, Orion the Hunter. It’s my personal favourite constellation, as it’s the first one my father ever taught me when I was a little girl. Other than that, I stumped myself.
I wish sometimes I could remember more of my dreams, so I could inspect the brain dumpage that occurs there every night. Maybe I could make a movie out of the salvaged bits, and critics would call it “A mind trip!” “Surreal!” “One of the biggest ‘thinkers’ of the year.” And people would have theories: “The Kaiser stands for the father figure in her life, you see, and you can see this manifested as her favourite hamburger bun.”
Anyone else “remind” themselves not to forget something as they are waking up? What kind of weird, cryptic messages did your dreamself leave for you to decode in the morning? Did any ever make any sense? (Besides “I was watching a DVD last night, and fell asleep, and Bruce Willis came to me in a dream and told me to wake up and turn off the DVD player, and I did!”) I mean the really cryptic ones, like Twin Peaks-style (though not necessarily as creepy).
*It sounds like me, talking to myself, in my head. My sleeping alter-ego.