gthom's dream journal

[gthom]

Lucids are in blue . Dreamsigns are in red . Realilty checks are in green . Analysis and asides are in whatever this color is...'dark orchid' according to the code. So Analysis and asides are in dark orchid This first one is a fairly long one from last night: My wife and I are at work. We I have been trying to get pregnant in waking life and my dream begins sometime shortly after we've just 'attempted.' She tells me that she's pregnant. I'm thrilled but also confused since I can't figure out how she could possibly know that she's pregnant already, within an hour of attempting to conceive. As I'm trying to work that problem out she starts telling people in the office that she's expecting. I immediately forget the question about how she knows already and instead worry about whether it's a good idea to start telling people (particularly casual work acquaintances) that she's pregnant so early in the pregnancy. But most of all I'm happy and accept the congratulatories from everyone around me. As we talk I see my wife is drinking coffee. I say something to the effect that I thought pregnant women weren't supposed to drink coffee, she says that it's only after the first trimester. I walk into my office and start sifting through my mail. For some reason I feel as if I've just returned from vacation and have a stack of papers to look through. I find a letter from an attorney complaining that I've subpoenaed the wrong people in a case, but I find it hard to work with the whole pregnancy thing going on and end up talking to more people at work about it. There are two women who don't actually work with me, but in the dream I accepted that they did. One of them was about to go on vacation and told us that she always spent her vacations driving bulldozers at construction sites. The conversation continued until.... I wake up. Not a false awakening, I'm in some strange bed and feel a terrible hangover. In the room with me is an overweight guy about my age (30s) who is playing nerf basketball. He's being loud and is clearly trying to wake me up. I feel incredibly hung over and annoyed at this guy, but feel compelled to get out of the bed. I remember that my wife is pregnant and the dream seems a clear continuation of the prior one...only I'm completely blacked out as to what happened between the office discussion and waking up hung over. I walk out of the room (the fat guy follows) into a kitchen where my wife is sitting (drinking coffee again!) with some strange woman. She asks how I'm feeling and I say that I'm hungover and ask where the hell we are. "You really don't remember anything?" she asks. I say that I don't and my wife and the other girl start laughing about how much I must have drank. I gather that we went out after work to celebrate and that I really tied one on. Sometime during the evening we met this other couple who were also newly pregnant. At some point they hint that I had taken all my clothes off at a bar or something, but I never figure out if they're joking or not. I question again whether my wife should be drinking coffee (she says it's fine) and become more and more annoyed at the overweight guy who keeps following me around but never says anything. Most of all I'm concerned about how I could have totally blacked out between work and the next morning, saying that I don't even remember leaving work, much less going to a bar and drinking. Eventually this dream fades. What I thought was so interesting was the clear line between being at work and waking up in the strange bed. I felt very hungover (interestingly, I did drink some wine that night with dinner), but also had a clear memory of the earlier event in the dream. I was very concerned about it since drinking myself into a long blackout period is not my usual MO. I never did a reality check or even considered the possibility of dreaming. A general feeling of happiness dominated the dream because of the pregnancy thing...but I was also disturbed by how the people we were sharing our news with were either casual acquaintances (co-workers) or complete strangers.