Nightmares

I have always had vivid dreams.  I dream in color and I remember them, and a lot of times my dreams get really insane.  So, for that reason, I guess I'll tear myself away from watching Bachelor Pad and the woes of Jake and Vienna to tell you about some of my recent nightmares.

Dream 1: After a long day of work moonlighting as a pet care expert at IncrediPet,  I come home to my apartment tired.  However, when I walk up to my door, it is open. This obviously scares me, so I go hide on the steps up to my apartment where I call my mom.  Because obviously my hundred some pound 5'4" mother is going to help me with an intruder.  Police?? Who needs them? So my mom comes rushing over purse swinging and is like, "Claire, get up, you're being ridiculous, just go in your apartment.  Come here." So my mom goes to my door and yells, "Hey. Is anyone in here?" At this point, we see movement coming from my utility closet and out of the closet comes none other than Morgan Freeman because Morgan Freeman clearly needs to steal my furnace.  Morgan Freeman slowly walks over to the door where my mom and I are standing, picks up a hammer and hammers my mom in the head. He turns to me and swings...and I wake up.  For the record, I have not watched Driving Ms. Daisy recently.  Also. Is Morgan Freeman ever a bad guy?? I woke up from this dream legitimately terrified. I was even trying to come up with someone who would move in with me because there was no way I was living alone anymore.  Owen did not help matters when he attacked my hand as I went to turn off my alarm.  I won't lie...I screamed.

Dream 2: The first of many dreams that I have ruined my career.  Last year before the beginning of school, I had a dream that I was 5 hours late to the first day of school.  This year I dreamed that I showed up, but had nothing prepared.  The kids sat and stared at me.  Also, the kids were only a year younger than me and all they did was stare at me and tell me that I had no authority in teaching them.  I have actually had multiple, multiple dreams along these same lines, and every time I, for whatever reason, get very stressed about my first day of school power point.  I finally did my power point the other day, so I would quit dreaming it wasn't finished, but it didn't help...it just shifted my dreams to ones like...

Dream 3: I show up for the first day of school and it goes fine...but on the second day of school I call in sick because I have a meeting for my haunted house job.  However, around noon, I remember that I've left no sub plans.  I rush to school and all three of the other teachers are walking down the hallway toward me, mean girls style.  I pass them and say, "Oh my gosh guys! I totally forgot my sub plans! I'm a terrible teacher!" They look at me and say, "Yes! You are." and then walk away in step with each other. Then. I'm supposed to get new desks at the end of the first week of school.  The teacher next door took my desks, which coincidentally are neon colors and look like they are made for barbies.  I asked her if I could have her old ones...she told me she needed them all and too bad.  The third day of school my kids sat on the floor.

I am infamous for my dream life.  As a child, I sleep walked like it was my job.  Once I came up to my mom and told her I was ready for school about 10 minutes after I went to sleep.  I also couldn't watch Disney movies because I had consistent nightmares about the villains.  The eels from Little Mermaid definitely swam around my bed at some point and the Huns from Mulan definitely invaded my house and hid in the crawl space.  I would have thought that I would grow out of these ridiculous dreams...but I guess not.

Peace, Love and Rem,
Claire

Some Things to Consider:

I think Owen is autistic.  He is overstimulated pretty much constantly and here is a pic of Owen doing what he does on a very VERY regular basis...staring at himself in the chandelier...in fact...he is doing it from a different vantage point as I type this.