I already posted this in that "LiveJournal" contraption that a lot of peeps around here read, but I figured I'd repeat it here for the benefit of those who are like I used to be.

I had a really weird experience this evening.

I was very tired when I got home from work, and my wife said dinner wouldn't be ready for almost two hours, so I decided to take a nap. I must have been more tired than I realized, because I actually made it into REM sleep, something which doesn't usually happen when I'm napping. At least, I don't think it does. I don't usually dream, or remember dreaming, when I take naps.

So one minute I'm laying in bed with a pillow over my head (because it's still light out) and the next I'm on vacation. The details have already faded somewhat, but I think I remember my mom and dad being there, along with my wife and sons. Sort of makes sense, since mom and dad are planning a trip out here over Labor Day weekend, and I was discussing the arrangement with my father just yesterday.

Suddenly, though, they're gone, and I'm driving down a road (maybe a highway?) in Richmond, Virginia. Trying to figure out how to get to King's Dominion, an amusement park there that I've been to ONCE when I was in high school. Only we're in the mountains, which doesn't make sense. And I'm having deja vu, in my dream, because I've done this before. Whether it was in real life, or in another dream, I'm not sure. So I pulled the car into this cul-de-sac to get out a map and try to figure out which road goes to King's Dominion.

And I felt like I ought to know already because I've done this before.

Suddenly, I'm out of the car, looking at a map. My mom and dad have disappeared from the dream, as have my wife and sons. They've been replaced with two of my co-workers, Glenn and Nougat. (Her name is Jenny but we all call her "Nougat" because that's what we called her when she was the new girl becuase "Nougat" kinda sounds like "New Girl.") Nougat is behind me trying to help me read the map, but Glenn is off to the other side having a fight with some guys who lived on the cul-de-sac, apparently. Glenn stormed off in an angry huff and one of the guys says something like, "Great, now how am I going to get to the mall?"

Then a nursery worker came up to me and said I was needed in the nursery because one of my kids was acting up.

???

I went along with her to the nursery because of course in the dream this made perfect sense. Assuming it was the older boy who was the problem, I walked into the nursery and asked him what was the matter. But it wasn't him, it was the baby. Which for whatever reason, shocked me in the dream.

Then I woke up because I had to go to the bathroom really bad. And I sat up and was like, "where am I?" and was totally, completely bewildered for probably ten or fifteen seconds because I couldn't remember ever experiencing a dream that vivid in a long, long time.

Then later this evening, I did some "virtual scrapbooking" and here is the result. New pictures!

Gri"I've told you what I dreamt; now you tell me what it meant"shny