Leftover Dreams

Ever have one of those dreams that just stays with you the morning after? It sits with you at breakfast. Follows you to work. Slides just under your eyelids as you start your day. I hate them. They color my whole day, make it surreal.

Luckily, a daily work routine will dispel this sort of lingering dream-state like the morning sun burns off fog. If I have a conversation with a coworker or start shooting off emails and the dream seems to vanish. Good thing too. Otherwise, I get lost in a stupid haze that I can't quite explain.

Now that I'm a stay-at-home dad and don't have coworkers or anyone to email, I get dreams that just hang around with me all day. In the moment, I can't tell if they're reality or half memory or complete fantasy. Somehow, they feel like all three at the same time.

I have to say, I do not like these dreams going stale in my brain. Luckily, it doesn't happen often. When it does though, I long for someone to talk with, someone to distract me from my half-baked recollections of the dream world.

Listening To: Chez Viking by The Mercury Program