Lucid Dreams

It has been a strange week: I have been these incredibly lucid dreams and I am not sure whether it is because I am taking some new medication (though looking back, I realize that being sick has made me rely on my nasal spray a lot more than usual) or because I am in some exciting phase of life where I need to have crazy dreams to get motivated to get off my bum and start making some changes.

What has been very bizarre is the weird interconnectedness of my dreams. See, my sleeping pattern the last week has been dream, wake, fall back to sleep, wake an hour later, fall back to sleep, dream a long scenario that wakes me up after about two to three hours having a problem differentiating between the waking state and the lucid dream, drop back to sleep, wake up, realize that it is much too early to be awake but also too little time to even contemplate sleep. I know, I know, sounds like a great sleeping pattern.

You would think all those periods of waking would mean interruptions in dreaming. But no. Instead, it is like one long, intertwining dream that makes me wonder what it all means. Take, for instance, last night's dream. I drove to Boston (woke up) and then decided that I needed to get in contact with my friend who lived in Boston because I had not seen him in a while and wanted to meet his wife and his baby but (wake up) could not call him because my phone had changed into an iPad and could not be changed back until I took it to my techy relative but by then, it was much too little time in Boston to see him but I tried calling. And at some point, I believe I logically thought I should just search for him house but did not have his address or any idea where he lived.

In the end, I woke up, was stuck on the phone bit of the dream and decided it was all my unconsciousness trying to tell me that I need to make more of an effort of keeping in touch, no matter what the circumstances, with the friends I love and miss. Makes sense, right?