Ok, it’s early as hell. I just woke up, the clock said it was 4:43am. I went to bed at about 12:30am. Not as much sleep as I would have wanted, but I feel awake so I know I should get up. Especially since it’s a Monday. On Mondays, my boyfriend works at home, he is usually a very early morning person but since he doesn’t have to drive in he gets up an hour or so later than usual and it seems that this fools my subconscious self into over sleeping my alarm clock most Mondays! But I digress…

I had a very strange thing happen this morning. I woke up in the middle of a dream. One of those dreams that continue when you fall back to sleep. It was a familiar dream. One I’ve had before (this happens a lot to me, I guess dream re-runs?) and I’ve always felt that it was basically a dream based off a movie I’d seen, but this morning I woke up right before the bad part of the dream happens. I actually realized where the dream was going and made a conscious decision to go back to sleep and continue it but when I did, the dream took a bizarre turn. Of course I don’t remember the dream detail for detail but I do know when I am asleep that it happened before. The dream has a very dark, film noir quality and I am a child in it. It’s back in the day (40’s or 50’s) and I am riding my bike a lot from home to somewhere and in the dream I work out a path through a warehouse type area, lots of buildings and elevators, streets and turns. Now this is not a surprise to me, I am aware that LOTS of my dreams are problem solving dreams, this is a side effect of my brain never quite resting.

In the dream, I usually wake up shortly after finding the path. It’s very satisfying I think, and probably why sometimes I wake up fully charged up after a short sleep, solving the maze feels good I suppose. In this dream, I woke up after solving the maze but I heard a voice calling me back in, in the dream it was my mom, I knew I was awake, but chose to “go back”. When I did, I found myself back at home again, and off on my maze one more time. When I got to the end of the maze, there is usually a building where I use a freight elevator to change to street level but while in the elevator I heard a little girl scream, I got out of the building and rode toward my destination but turned up a small alley which I swear was never there. I rode past a courtyard, which was below street level and I saw a little girl, in a white dress in a pool of blood, with a dark figure standing next to her. I woke up again, and this time, I decided not to go back to sleep to find out what happened.

I think that my brain said, “Be glad you solved the maze and don’t get sucked into the rest! Get up and get ready for work!”

Weird huh?