Dreams and Deja Vu

I thought this picture by Salvador Dali, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, appropriate for this post. Odd, yes. But I had a weird dream the other day that stuck with me. Great fodder for a new story.

In my dream, I was in my real life, in my house with my kids. Everything was the same, except for a few key details, like a giant ant hill in my front yard, complete with giant ants, and furniture and toys from my youth stuck in odd places in my house, as well as a cat I used to have roaming my living room. But it was the fact that I knew I was dreaming that struck me, and that I woke myself in one dream, only to wake in another! So totally bizarre. I'm not normally cognizant that I'm dreaming in my dreams, and yesterday I not only knew it, but tried to wake myself from it, only to find myself embedded in another dream. I tried to scream to wake myself up, but couldn't speak. And then, like that, I just opened my eyes.

I would love to experience the sensation again, simply because it was so unbelievably odd. Which led me to another moment a few days ago. Sitting in a restaurant at a long table reserved for a group of friends celebrating a birthday. Green walls. People passing dessert plates and homemade dessert brought into the restaurant to celebrate a birthday....deja vu hit big time. Studying the sensation, I knew it wasn't caused by having eaten in a restaurant before or by being surrounded by green walls. I don't normally dine out with those folks (my aerobics class :), but I did that night. And that's what I'd envisioned doing before.

Okay, off my weird vibe weekend. But still, makes for interesting thoughts and future stories, you know?

Happy Monday