D R E A M S

This morning I dreamed I was on a commercial air liner. I don't know where I was going or where I was coming from, but I got the distinct feeling it was an international trip. Maybe Chicago to London or vice versa? Anyway, what was really cool was we were up pretty high and all of a sudden the pilot starts flying as though he's making evasive maneuvers, like we're diving and rolling and I can feel the acceleration and the strangest thing was that I had a pilot's eye view of our flight path, as though I were looking straight ahead into the horizon as we flew. I definitely wasn't piloting the plane, though. I didn't get the sense that it was scary, like we were avoiding anything or terrorists or anything. It was just fun.

Interestingly, in the film Waking Life (an excellent, highly recommended movie, by the way), there's a segment that talks about the fact that in dreams, one can't alter the level of ambient light. Like, if you were to flip a light switch, the light level in the room shouldn't change. But in my dream, we were flying in near-darkness and then we changed course and we were flying into a brilliant, orange and red hued sunset horizon. It was very bright and beautiful.

The next thing I knew, I had fallen asleep in my dream and it only felt like a couple minutes, but we were already landing at our destination. But it felt like it was too quick and that maybe we had landed somewhere in an emergency. What was really strange was the fact that at the end of the runway, there was a sort of conveyor that took the plane to a lower level. If anyone has been to the Ikea that has the shopping cart escalators, it was very much like that, except for planes. Not surprisingly, I was to Ikea this past week.

That's all I really remember from the dream, though.

And this was an IM conversation I had with someone earlier today:

bhofmeister13: Hey J
PumpkinMonkey13: Hey Brian, whats up?
bhofmeister13: not much
bhofmeister13: I was wondering
bhofmeister13: did I talk to you on the phone recently?
bhofmeister13: did you call me?
bhofmeister13: I think maybe I dreamed you called me and I'm just realizing now that it was a dream
bhofmeister13: that's pretty weird
PumpkinMonkey13: lol...had to be a dream
bhofmeister13: that's funny
bhofmeister13: yep, musta been
bhofmeister13: OK, thanks
PumpkinMonkey13: no problem
bhofmeister13: I'll have to add this to my dream blog now.

Brian posted at 1:02 PM.