Last night I dreamed something was making noise just outside our front door.\u00a0 Thinking (in the\u00a0dream) it might be a wild animal, I snuck up to the door and quickly threw it open.\u00a0 As it opened I saw something – a darkness in the darkness, human in size – just outside the door.\u00a0 It screamed like a girl and dashed away.\u00a0 Not knowing what else to do, I hunkered up like a bear, becoming very large, and shouted “RAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”\u00a0 Suddenly I heard the jingling of my dog’s collar, and afraid that the dog would rush from the house out into the darkness, I turned around and shouted “RAAAAAAAAAAAH!” again.<\/p>\n
I remember Donna waking me up and\u00a0asking what I was shouting at.\u00a0 I mumbled that it must have been a dream and went back to sleep.<\/p>\n
Poor Donna!\u00a0 This morning it dawned on me that the scream I heard in my dream was Donna’s.\u00a0 I’m working early this month, going to bed at nine and getting up at four.\u00a0 Donna comes to bed at ten-thirty, after the news, and considerately tries to get between the sheets without making a lot of commotion.\u00a0 Last night I must have sensed her by the bed and written her into my dream.\u00a0 I’m guessing I lunged at her when, in the dream, I was throwing open the front door.\u00a0 She jumped and screamed, as any normal person would.\u00a0 Then I screamed right back at her!<\/p>\n
As\u00a0we were screaming at each other, our dog Schatzi was probably prancing\u00a0around the bedroom, trying to stay out of the way, so the jingling dog collar I heard in my dream was actually a jingling dog collar.\u00a0 And then I screamed again!<\/p>\n
What a night it must have been for Donna and Schatzi, sleeping next to a crazy man.\u00a0 Me, I would have gone into the spare bedroom and locked the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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