rem recovery

They say that when you are sleep deprived, or rather REM deprived, upon getting a full night's sleep your brain will move rapidly into REM sleep and will spend more time there "catching up" and processing...this is when you experience the most vivid dreams.

I should sleep more...

Last night my dreams were many and disturbing. There was one gentleman in particular that made several appearances throughout the course of my REM rebound. This is unfortunate for me, because as I was getting ready for bed I was trying very hard NOT to think about him and had essentially decided that he was taking up WAY too much of my time and cognitive space.

The first dream that I remember involved my mother's old house which was serving as a restaurant (fedora, most likely, as the creamers and most of the staff were the same). I walked into some sort of brunch that I was supposed to be working and a raging mess in the kitchen that I had to clean up. Incidentally, the kitchen looked the same as when I lived there, right down to the green paint on the walls. I was supposed to be waiting tables but instead I was put on coffee duty and spent a great deal of the dream trying to find enough creamers and warming coffee cups with hot water.
Where the dining room used to be was a super long table with about 20 angry customers sitting at it. I don't remember who they were, but when I woke up from the dream I remember thinking there was some significance.
That was that...just lots of coffee and cream and a sense of urgency that I don't function well under.

I had a lot of work dreams last night... Another involved the previously mentioned man and the restaurant that he was working at (restaurant people suck, in case you didn't know). Apparently, I had decided to pick up a shift at this restaurant ... It was a weird (dream-like, I suppose) location as the building itself was located in what looked like the parking lot of a miniature golf course. I drove to this place with this guy and really didn't want to work but felt some sort of sick obligation. We went inside and I was being introduced to people and when I realized how slow the evening was going to be I left him waiting at the door and went outside to smoke. I don't remember much else, but the general feeling ws annoyance.

In another I was in florida and was looking for something. down town Orlando was completely different and was connected by a series of tunnels (disney? yeah, most likely) I was with the same person as before and we went into a restaurant, not to work this time, but to actually eat. It was a weird long john silvers type menu (I would never go there, by the way) and all the booths were themed in some way. One was a bath tub, I remember. We couldn't find a place to sit. All the tables were either taken by customers or employees on break. There was a feeling of danger and we walked aroung a balcony looking for something. Back outside I noticed that there was a storm coming and it looked bad. Not really knowing my way around the city (because the whole thing had changed) we decided to take a cab for a while. There was a stadium that obviously didn't belong and while he went in I found a hole and crawled in it. It was an underground tunnel but it somehow went up and I found myself in a small bubble type room (kind of like the end of one of those mcdonald's playland things, you know, small and plastic with big convex windows). that's about all I remember of that.

Anyway, it was a weird night full of weird dreams that shared themes. I didn't like it much.

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