Monday, February 11, 2013

same dream, over and over.

I had the same short dream, testing something in my hobby project, the test being successful, whereupon the dream immediately restarted, for at least three hours straight last night. Before that I was waking up every hour or so. Uggh, beat. Will have to nap before going to my interview today.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Bizzarely specific dream.

My interview with the company I was working for is scheduled for Wednesday. I applied the day it was posted and my old manager emailed me to schedule an interview four weeks to the day of the job posting. I'm hoping this means the interview is a formality. I worked there for over 18 months, so they should know what I can do for them. I'm interviewing with a different company tomorrow. Can't put all eggs in one basket. Here's hoping I get my old job. I've met with some recruiters as well, but nothing has come of that, it didn't last time I was looking either.

Kidney stone was really hurting me last night, had to take two alleve when normally one will do the trick. Woke up twice from the pain. Didn't sleep well at all. I took a nap today but right now I'm really trying to stay awake and it's not even 6pm.

I had a weirdly specific dream last night, and before I'd taken the alleve so that wasn't the cause. I was riding my bicycle to my house (I was some distance away) at 2:30 in the morning when I passed a vet clinic. A well pregnant (7 months or so) young lady was getting off work at the vet, so I offered to wait around while she got in her car, since it was the middle of the night. Her car didn't start, and I wasn't able to fix it, so I suggested we walk to Denny's for some middle of the night food. She said she thought she knew where one was so we started walking. It started raining so I took out my umbrella and covered her, since she was pregnant. We walked along and ran into her mother, who was furious at her for being in the company of this strange man in the middle of the night, and that I would molest her or something. I pointed out that I had no intention of doing anything with her daughter other than going for a mid-night meal (which was true, I just wanted to make sure this 7 month pregnant woman was ok through the night since her car wouldn't start and I figured a 24 hour restaurant was as good as anywhere for that), I just wanted to go get some Denny's and go home. Her mom still protested but the young woman said she thought her girlfriend wouldn't mind and anyway she was pregnant so I wouldn't do anything. We went on to where she thought Denny's was. The place turned out to be one of the old residence halls from my college, and though the dining hall was open 24 hours, we weren't students so we couldn't eat there. So we decided we would go to another place we thought was a Denny's and started walking there. At that point I woke up. I haven't been to a Denny's in nearly 20 years, but in the dream it was very specific that that was where I wanted to go for some middle of the night food.

Overall I've been doing pretty decent this winter, without too many really down days. Even today I'm not so much down as just really tired from last night's kidney pain preventing a good night's sleep. I miss my ex-wife a bunch though, which I can't tell her. I hope she's found someone, though last time I had a dream that she had I was upset, so maybe not really.