I was having one
of those dreams yesterday morning where you are sleeping and someone
comes in to see why you are still sleeping and you're trying to wake
up and get up but can't get your eyes open and when you finally do
get them open a crack you're struggling keep them open. Finally I was
awake in the dream and I was at some sort of retreat or some place
and it was the last day and time to leave and we were responsible for
cleaning the room and doing the dishes and my two roommates had
already left leaving me to do all the clean up but there weren't even
any towels to dry the dishes. There were other people in the room
though I don't know what they were doing so I finally just shrugged
and got my bag and left. I thought I still had most the day to
explore but I wanted to check on my flight home, find out when the
bus to the airport left and what time I had to be there. I was
walking down a long hallway, someone had given directions to the
lounge but I passed the intersecting hallway and some guy walked me
back and to the lounge and left me there. I was kind of confused and
getting anxious because I couldn't find out about the bus and I was
afraid of missing my flight so I thought I could just check my ticket
but when I pulled it out it was all gummy and I couldn't pull the
pages apart and then I started waking up for real and was having
trouble pulling out of the dream and opening my eyes. I had to lay
there and tell myself this was a dream and I needed to disengage
from it. Finally I was able to wake up and open my eyes. Weird. What
the hell was that all about?!
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There's a gray
cat that comes to drink out of the turtle pond in the mornings. I've
seen it several times now. It leaps up on the top rail of the chain
link fence and then to the rim of the pond. I'll let Emma out and she
will saunter over and the gray cat will move behind the dead stalks
of the lizard tail (water plant) as if Emma can't see it. Eventually
when it feels it's safe it will leap back up on the top rail of the
fence and down and runs across the yard. Not sure if this is a feral
cat, it looks well fed and healthy, or belongs to a neighbor.
The last two
days have been sunny and warming, upper 60s, til the sun goes down
anyway. Today is really nice too. I need to get my purple poppy seeds
in today since I should have gotten them in last month and the red
ones already have a good set of true leaves. We have our full winter
landscape and while I usually leave most of the dead foliage til
spring to clean up, I am cutting down the dead and brown ginger
stalks.
I'm still
tending to the Demon Duo every day. Minnie does not care for me
playing with the cats.
Well, it's
christmas eve for those who celebrate and so to those I say have a
wonderful day today and tomorrow.
OMG! I've had dreams similar to that where you have to do all the work but can't complete the task and then when you want to wake up you can't and then it becomes a lucid dream of hearing things and they are incorporated into the dream. It's scary. Minnie is so sweet. Those big brown eyes are so disarming. That picture made me think she was saying,"okay mom, what's with you leaving me and then coming home smelling like a cat?"
ReplyDeleteoh she goes with me and when she can't stand it she'll jump in the middle which scatters the cats and then she gets in my face and just looks at me.
DeleteMinnie looks very intense.
DeleteIt is only letting me "reply" and not post an original. Oh well, I have not much important to say except I hate those intense dreams!!
DeleteI've had those dreams too. Usually when I have them and I can't open my eyes or wake up, I'm driving a car which even in dreamland I realize is not something I should be doing.
ReplyDeleteIt's horrible.
The other night I dreamed I was back at the Opera House in Monticello, doing a little acting again and I was loving it and I was talking to my friend Jan and then I thought, "This is a dream. Jan is dead."
Which she is. It was so sad.
Having a bumpy Christmas Eve day here today. I'll just be glad when this is all over.
I'm cat sitting for a friend, and for two days I wouldn't have known the creature was alive, had its food not been disappearing. I finally found her hiding in a closet today, and gave her a catnip mouse and some treats. We'll see how things go tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteReality? Totally overrated. You keep an eye out for that grey cat, could be real.
ReplyDeleteI had a dream where the world disappeared, or it was veiled behind some gelatinous mist of some kind. We were given a quiz question so that we could get back into the real world. The answer to my question was Derek Jeter. Ha!
ReplyDeleteAgain, Minnie is hilarious. That look!
ReplyDeleteI've been debating whether to clean up our dead winter stalks. I've left them so far, because supposedly insects can overwinter inside the stems and curled foliage. But how long am I supposed to leave them before the bugs emerge again? I don't want to have to wait for warm weather!