Saturday, June 25, 2011

Basketball, Lady Gaga, and A Tree

Note to self: Never, ever, ever again watch Lady Gaga on David Letterman before bed.

I dream every night. It seems as though I never actually sleep because the dreams are so vivid and real and usually always ridiculously crazy. I, at first, fall into bed with that stretch out on stomach and head on pillow sigh of ahhhhhh and close my eyes thinking, yes tonight I will sleep, after all it's been a good day. However I awake at 1:30am with a start and rush to the bathroom checking to make sure I didn't wet the bed because I have to pee so bad! I sit in the bathroom wondering if it's just the 7pm coffee or are Depends right around the corner... on this note I return to bed.
Yes and then the dreams...
What I can recall (and am willing to share) is somehow I am in a gym and there's a jv and high school basketball tournament going on. One boys team is getting ready to play and a wormy coach walks out all puffed up looking for his dry erase marker and then one of his coach assistant's who is a rather muscled up big guy jumps up and runs to get one for the wormy coach who in turn throws it back at the dudes face because he wanted a different one, to which the bigger dude, ducks his head and heads off to get the other marker. I shake my head and walk away. There is nothing that perplexes me more than a grown man licking another man's boots as he walks around in pompous arrogance...
Next thing I am sitting watching a jv girls team getting ready to practice and divide up into teams and the Hispanic talking coach grabs me and says "here you play on this team". I look at her with a 'hello!?!??' I'm 34 not 12, I think they'll notice. To which she replies, no they won't, I have the paperwork to prove you're of age, get out their and play. She then looks at me and says, 'it's okay, you just need to go get in the egg and meditate and be reborn. Have you experienced rebirth today?' To which all of a sudden now I am on the team and I look over and my basketball playing cousin who is also in her 30's is playing with me. We just look at each other and shrug our shoulders. Game on?
Next thing I know I am outside and I look over and here comes a young girl I have known since a child dressed up in the Lady Gaga gear of the David Letterman interview. She prances up as if it is no big deal that she is dressed this way. I am thinking "Good Lord what is the world coming to? Please do not allow this woman to influence our youth, she uses Your words but she twists them to her own will."
Somehow from there I end up being put in charge of my friend Michelle's favorite tree. It is a tree that looks like a dinosaur leg bone and she loves it and wants to keep it safe. I at first find this utterly ridiculous, but as the men come to try and take the tree away I grab on for dear life and am holding on with heaping sobs to this tree... They finally jerk it away and I am standing there explaining what happened to my friend and am still sobbing as I say, I can't believe I got so attached to a stupid tree...

Now if I were a dream analyzer I could spend hours trying to decipher through all this mess, but it's really quite simple...
Don't watch the News or Lady Gaga on David Lettermen before going to bed.

1 comment:

  1. And maybe stay away from the 7pm coffee? Thanks for making me laugh this morning!

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