Loftwings and Demons

I dreamed I was at a job interview and I fell asleep. It's so weird to think about knowing it was a dream because I actually felt tired...in the dream...where I was already sleeping...

And I wasn't tired for the entire dream, just that one part where I was being interviewed because the interviewer wasn't asking any questions. Just stood there and stared at me. So I got tired and fell asleep. I've never fallen asleep during a real life interview since having to interact with someone in that kind of situation tends to give me an adreneline spike, but I have fallen asleep when I was around other people but not interacting with them before.

Anyway, it's such a weird experience in retrospect to realize that you got tired and nodded off in a dream.

One thing I enjoy is laying in bed and drifting in and out of sleep until I feel alert enough to do something. This is such a luxurious experience to me.

Ever think you absolutely should go to sleep, you want to sleep, you are tired, but you nevertheless lay awake, your mind stubbornly persisting to ponder some thing or other?

That is me right now.

Last night I dreamt I was late to work, which was the boring part, but the reason I was late to work was I had to take food I'd been cooking out of the oven. And one of the foods I was cooking was a pumpkin, except when I cut it open it was actually pumpkin cake and naturally I had to eat some of the pumpkin cake. Then later as I continued on to work I got stuck in an elevator.

But the important part was eating pumpkin cake. Who cares about the rest? I wasn't late to work in real life, just in the dream.

I think it's time for some sleeping. For how long? We shall see!

I suspect that technically I don't have insomnia because that's an issue where someone has trouble sleeping much at all and that is not...my problem.  My problem is that I do not have anything like a consistent sleep schedule.  I'm pretty sure from what other people describe that I not only do not have insomnia but may have...the opposite of insomnia.  I just have periods of time in the day when I am not at all tired, which of course would be normal for a person to have except that they seem to slide about at random.  Also, from my experiences, I've seen there are things I can do to reduce this arbitrary sliding, but those things do pose their own challenges to me.

Apparently today is World Sleep Day.  This calls for a celebration!  I think I will take a nap.

My sleep schedule is so messed up haha.  Though at least I do have a decent amount of time I feel awake.  It's just a matter of *when* I feel awake that's something of a problem.  I should probably try to do something about how incredibly messed-up its become.  This is erratic even for me. 

Had a very vivid dream last night: There was some sort of weird parasite that was rehydrated and brought back to life in a bathtub. It was supposed to be a tapeworm but looked more complicated than a tapeworm in the dream. This was somehow related to the rest of the dream but I couldn't explain exactly how.

There was no pandemic in the dream, and I went on a vacation in a nonexistent real world location. My brain is really good at making up stuff, though it usually focuses on the inside of single buildings or on making up college campuses. This was a whole town it just made up. There were restaurants and shops and grocery stores and houses, even a bus system. At one point I was riding on the bus in the dream with a real person I know somewhat but have only really talked with a few times and she got off unexpectedly, so I talked to the bus driver, who stopped to let me out, and went looking for her. I did find her, and it turned out she was visiting her parents and siblings in a blue house in the town (which is of course is not where her relatives live in real life since again, the entire town was all made up).

In another part of the dream, I was in a grocery store, and then later in an office building fleeing from some made up person or creature and trying to save...I think they were rock-people or shapeshifters or something? I dunno. And I think I may have been some sort of shapeshifter? Anyway, I think I was able to shrink one of them down and get them out of the office building.

And that was my dream.

Last night I dreamed I was in a videogame and since this was a videogame my subconscious made up, of course the main character had a sword.  She had some kind of superpowers too.  There were lots of outdoors scenes in the dream.  I don't remember much but it was fun.