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The blurred line between dreams and reality

I love when my dreams are so vivid, I awaken in the middle of the night or the following morning and immediately look around to see exactly where I am, and it takes me a few minutes to realize I had just been dreaming. This is especially the case if I had been drinking the previous evening. Fortunately for me (and others I'm sure), I have yet to experience a Hangover-type moment where I awaken from my slumber only to discover a tiger is in the room with me, and no, I don't mean Tiger Woods.

There have even been times when a dream has felt so real, I'll find myself in a deja-vu like moment in the next couple of days, where I have to stand back and contemplate, "Wait, didn't this already happen?," before coming to the realization I had only dreamt that very event a night or two prior. This is the especially the case when it comes to conversation. I'll sometimes have to ponder a bit before asking or telling a person something, wondering, "Didn't I already tell this story or was that in a dream?" I then usually provide cover for myself by saying, "I may have already told you this story before, but..."

I find dreams to be fascinating. We sleep roughly one-third of our lives and "reality" when we awaken sometimes feels less real than the images and scenarios we envision when our eyes are closed. Perhaps the two are intermingled more than most might think, for as long as we dream, we're still alive.
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