Dream Journal: Notes From My Subconscious (October 20, 2008)

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Last night, I decided to write down my most interesting thoughts in a dream journal by my night stand. All in all, I spent about 50% of the night sleeping and 50% not-sleeping. Here is the sum of my notes:)

• Eating 100+ Jelly Bellys before bed is a bad idea.
• Watched my computer screen saver for 2 hours before it went to black and made up rap songs to the rhythm of my heartbeat.
• In the wee hours of the night, I thought it might help to loosen up my definition of the word "sleep" to mean "eyes closed and heart rate under 70 bpm." This made me feel better about my jelly bean-induced insomnia for a little bit.
• When my heart rate slowed my mind was still active. So I tried playing mind tricks on myself. When I'd pose a question for myself, I be like, "shhhhhhh. He's sleeping."
• As I lay here, I can feel which foods digest easily and which ones I'm having trouble with. Chicken is good. Jelly Bellies and other empty calorie foods are not so good. I must be more careful from now on about what foods I put down there.
• I woke up at 6:42am to a belly ache and the whizzing of a "UFO car" outside my window. It reminded me of the creepy, mystery hiker when I camped alone in the mountains last month. The din was unnatural. The sound from the car engine was like a metal ball whizzing around a dispose all. As the engine warmed up, the pitch grew louder and louder until, all at once, there was seriously a "whooshing" sound and it was gone. Weird. I'm PRETTY sure I was conscious.
• My eyeballs are blurry from being pressed into my sockets while sleeping on my face; I can barely see the paper I'm writing on.
• Part of my dream included slinging pumpkin guts at monster. It had some kind of anesthetic, slow-motion effect on them. I think that it was inspired by the new movie, Max Payne, coming to theaters. Payne takes pills to slow down all the bad guys so he can shoot them and escape.
• A different and more embarrassing part of my dream included a terrible moment at the movie theater when my cellphone flipped up inside my pocket and my date thought that I was "pitching a tent." I tried rolling it down inconspicuously, but it was very conspicuous. She thought that I was absent-mindedly caressing it or something. She was horrified.
• In an effort to fall back asleep, I would lay directly on top of my limbs to try to put them to sleep one at a time.
• Just when I was dozing off again, my watch alarm decides to go off not once but twice. It was only after it starting beeping the second time that I got up and walked across the room to turn it off.
• Didn't fall asleep again until I had to get up at 8am to prepare to teach Elders quorum at 9am. You bet I used the Jelly Belly analogy in my lesson!