In Your Dreams!

[vovat]

I always think I'm going to remember my dreams, but once I've slept again, I often forget. New dreams push old ones out of my mind, I suppose. Anyway, here are a few I've had recently:

• The recurring dreams about still being in high school and missing exams. In the dream I had last night, I believe I'd already taken some of my exams, but had to do so again. For some reason, it's a common feature of these dreams that I miss the final for German class. Why that's singled out, I have no idea.
  
• A few different video game dreams, which usually make me eager to play the games. The night before last, I had one about The Sims 2, which I haven't played in a while. I was probably thinking about it because Suzanne mentioned playing it on Sunday. Every time I have a Sims dream, I want to play the game in real life. Then I usually remember how much time it takes to accomplish anything in the game. The Dragon Quest series also frequently appears in my dreams. In the most recent dream of that variety, I was playing a game that had the locations of the first DQ, but they didn't look quite the same. For instance, the town of Cantlin looked like a modern city, complete with automobile traffic. Another image that often appears in these dreams is a golf course that's actually an entrance to the netherworld.
  
• I found a few new Oz books, including one about an imam in Oz. Now there's a scenario I doubt will ever actually be explored. I remember being afraid I was dreaming when I found them, and unfortunately I was right. That's one reason why good dreams can be much more disappointing than bad ones.
  
• My car had some sort of viewscreen that was malfunctioning, so the road and everything else outside looked distorted. When I managed to park it at the Wawa, it turned out the front left side had fallen off entirely. I have a lot of car wreck dreams, usually involving the car being wrecked without my being aware of it. It's also pretty frequent that I'll have two cars, and I have to figure out how to get both of them home.
  
• I had my own apartment. Well, sort of. The apartment building was open, and the neighbors could come and go freely through my rooms. The neighbors I met in the dream were a young woman and an older one, and I decided I trusted them. It was kind of exciting, despite the awkwardness. This was one of the dreams from the night before last that I thought I forgot, but then I remembered it again.