Dream a Little Dream

I'm a dreamer. I seem to have quite a few more dreams than my average friend. Here are a few dreams I seem to have a lot:

1. The one where I find myself once again attending my highschool. I haven't had this one in a while, but occasionally it crops up. I am my true age in these dreams, and panicking because I realize that I have had qutie a few absences since I was 18, and I'm not sure how I'll make them up. Sometimes, I am worrying about attending work and classes at the same time. Typically at some point in the dream I'm trying to figure out where I parked my car, which would be confusing indeed since I never drove to school in High School. I also usually come to the realization that as an adult I can sign my own absence slips, and try to work up the courage to skip. But I worry that I will get in trouble with the office for turning in my own absences. And I worry that I will have too many absences to graduate. Mind you, in these dreams I always have my college degree already.

2. The one where I start floating upward, kind of like Charlie and his grandpa in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, when they have to belch to get down. Only I usually just float higher and higher and higher. At first it's usually fun. At first I can use my super flying powers to fly about, and spy on people, and have a bird's eye view of what's going on. And then it all spins out of control and I just keep floating higher and higher. And then I wake up. Let me tell you, that's a great way to start your day. I wake up feeling like Major Tom.

3. The one where I'm driving down a hill on a curvy road, and I discover I have no brake. It's a pretty short dream. Coincidentally, I generally have that dream in times of stress. Odd.

4. The one where I wake up and see a big black spider in my bed next to my head/on the wall/on the ceiling over me/hanging over me. This one is especially exciting because I will literally get out of bed. I will turn on the lights. I will check under my sheets, down on the floor, and all around. There was one incident where I walked out of my room, went downstairs, got the vacuum to vacuum it up, plugged it in, and ALMOST turned it on. Then it occured to me that my parents might be cranky if I vacuumed over their room at 2 in the morning. Also I realized there was no spider. I usually wake up enough to realize that there is no actual spider. Although sometimes I think he's just hiding....