Stress Dreams Are Made of These

Lately I've been having a lot of stress dreams.

Not the "I'm late for a test" or "Why am I naked?" or "Something hairy is chasing me" kind of dreams. Nothing that...diagnosable.

I have dreams like, "there's a bunch of cucumbers and I have to keep them from rolling down this hill."

Last night, I dreamt I was trying to get a bunch of lug nuts into a pot of boiling water - while talking on the phone.

After that, I fell back asleep and dreamt I was trying to cram all my laundry in a hole.

I don't particularly like these dreams - I usually wake up and my legs are tired, like I just ran a few miles and somehow didn't sweat.

But I do like that almost every night, I get to do things in my dreams that I can almost guarantee I will never do in my real life.

I mean, I guess if I ever live on a hill, I could see myself trying to keep my cucumbers from rolling away. But I promise - if there ever comes a time that I need to to put a bunch of lug nuts in a pot of boiling water, I'm gonna tell the person I'm talking to on the phone that I'll call them back when I'm done.