Things That Go Bump in the Night

I'm almost afraid to go to bed at night now because of what dreams I'll have. They aren't always bad or scary, but they've been extremley vivid and strange lately. As fun as they are, I need to figure out how to stop them because I wake up exhausted in the morning. I don't know what it is; I'm not more stressed than usual, I go to bed fairly early, I do all the usual things you're supposed to do to take care of yourself. I blame the change in the weather, it's messing with my mind.

Moreover, a lot of them involve people I go to school with so it's weird seeing them the next day. For example, I had a dream about how everyone couldn't stand this one girl in my class and the next day she sat next to me in two of my classes and I couldn't look at her because all I could think about were the things people were saying in my dream. I've had a dream where my dean's fellow was the drill sargent when I joined the Navy officer program at Guantanamo Bay (think "A Few Good Men), a dream where I competed against this other girl in my class Project Runway style for dresses for the law school prom (yes, there really is a formal in law school), and a dream where this other girl was the head of the Bruin Republicans (even though she's liberal).

I don't know if studying all day has made my imagination go into hyperdrive when I go to sleep but something lately has been triggering all these crazy dreams. I know there's all that dream analysis stuff. But instead of wondering what my dreams mean, I kind of wonder why we have dreams at all. I never realized until now what a strange phenomenon it is.