I know I have a psychotic sleep schedule, what with going to bed between three and five in the morning and then having insomnia mess up whatever sleep I do get, but another sleep problem I have is with dreaming. There are some nights when I dream so vividly and intensely, that waking up in the morning is disorienting and more sluggish than usual. Last night was one of those nights where the dreams were long, complicated, and intensely detailed. A lot (if not most) of my dreams skip over the finer details like logos on beer bottlecaps, road signs, even getting the right people in the right places. Then there are nights like last night where every detail stood out in stark contrast to the dialogue and general plot. Sometimes even the dialogues and plots of my dreams are so intricate that I’m left to wonder what the hell happened when I wake up. It’s the more vague, more generic dreams that I tend to easily forget in the morning, but the intense dreams with minute details I wouldn’t even notice in my day-to-day life are the ones that just mess with my head. I’m still reeling from the dreams I had last night, and I’ve been up for about and hour and a half. The dialogue keeps playing over in my mind, the characters are alive yet, and the tiny details have me obsessing over them.

Sometimes I envy people who say they don’t dream or that they don’t really remember their dreams. Sure, I’ve gotten lots of great ideas from some of my dreams, but I’ve also gotten a lot of muddled and confused days where the dreams seem to take over my day. I guess the other problem with these intense dreams is that I don’t get much in the way of rest when I’m having them. It’s like living a second day; sometimes it feels like I’m living three days even, all in one night. It doesn’t help with the other sleep problems I have either.

So now I’m going to be distracted and preoccupied all day, groggy to boot, and it’s all because of a series of incredibly intense dreams I had last night. What sparked these? Was it watching too many cooking shows and disaster shows on TV? Playing WoW and the Sims for too long? All the political shows and web pages I’ve been reading? Too much caffeine? The crafts? Ian? Kitty? The rain? All of the above? None of the above? Whatever it is, I wouldn’t mind if it would lay off for a while. My sleep schedule is screwy enough without dreams wrecking it even further. Crazy dreams.