Dream smushing

I have way too much on my mind when I go to sleep at night.  So much so, that my dreams are starting to smush together (for all of you Jersey Shore fans, I mean “join”. I’m not using the term the way they do) into one big, strange, disoriented dream.  It’s funny though. When I try to analyze it the next day, the dream makes perfect sense in individual parts. Since I really haven’t used my dream blog to officially analyze my dreams (I usually just go off on some unrelated tangent), I’m going to give it a try today.

Last night I dreamt that I was going to a housewarming party for some of our friends in Washington, North Carolina. When they gave me the tour of their new house, it looked EXACTLY like my parent’s house inside.

Seems like a pretty normal dream when you just read the above paragraph. It’s the concoction of thoughts, ideas, and real life situations that make the dream crazy. So here goes…

Housewarming party - Over my four week vacation I went one of my best friend’s housewarming party (which was fabulous, needless to say), but not the same friend that was in my dream.  

Washington, NC – the people in my dream actually live in Georgia, nowhere close to the small town in NC. My co-worker, however, just visited this town, and had a HORRIBLE experience.  She was traveling down there for an inventory observation, and being from Maryland, wasn’t used to the back country roads.  Well, long story short, the weekend she traveled down there, we had torrential downpours which closed most of the roads leading to her destination.  A few panicked phone calls later, and a stay at a very sketchy motel, she was able to get down to her destination. Obviously her experience has had an impact on me since I’m dreaming about it.

The people in the dream – I haven’t seen the couple in the dream since their wedding last summer.  Interestingly enough however, I was on the phone yesterday morning on the way to work strategizing with our kickball coach, and one of their names came up in conversation.  We were talking about a different person, but they have the same name, and when he said it I automatically thought of this couple in my dream (pre-dreaming it… if that makes sense).

Exactly like my parent’s house – I’ve had a lot of time on my hands the past few weeks. Four weeks of vacation with no real solid plans during the weekdays (surprisingly, no one else took a 4 week vacation during the middle of winter) can leave you a little stir crazy. Being the type “A” person that I am, I wandered around our house trying to think of all of the “improvements” I would like to make.  Side note: never watch HGTV while you’re on a 4-week vacation.  I love our house now. I mean, we have a couple of things that we’re planning on completing, but after one morning watching HGTV, you suddenly have plans to build a new house. Anyway, two things came out of my house wandering: new floors, and a new kitchen.  Nothing major (ok that’s a lie), but something in line with my parent’s hardwood floors and island countertop in the kitchen.

So there we have it. Four completely separate experiences/thoughts melded together to form one bizarre dream.  Dream analyzing = success.