With a dropped jaw, buggy eyes, and sweaty palms your hot, salty head pops up from your warm pillow in a heart-pounding state of emergency. After a second of massively intense panic where you zoom into brain-rushing, adrenaline-gushing overdrive, it just suddenly just dawns on you …
It was all just a dream.
It was all just a dream.
It was all just a dream.
AWESOME!
(There’s an update in the Book section)
Photo from: here
31 Comments
November 20, 2009 at 12:14 am
*wipe sweat*
*phew*
It was a dream.
It always feels good. especially the dream is something which is linked to death of a love one. =/
awesome! :)
November 20, 2009 at 12:27 am
Agreed!
There is nothing to compare with that moment when you realise you are safe. No monsters, spookys or mother-in-laws.
Awesome.
November 20, 2009 at 3:23 am
Awesome!
And that baby continues to be awesome. I hope it’s on the cover of the book.
November 20, 2009 at 4:42 am
I have painfully vivid (and bizarre) dreams, so it’s exhausting to wake up from a ‘busy’ night, and usually a huge relief to realise that it was all in my crazy little head. Thank heavens!
Meanwhile, that baby is awesome. I want that hair.
xx Kit
November 20, 2009 at 7:55 am
This feels so much better when you have a dream that involves a big test that you do poorly at, then wake up, and discover that such a test does not and will not exist for you that day.
November 20, 2009 at 9:05 am
I’ve had to confirm with others that what I dreamed was not real, especially when those dreams consist of missed deadlines, missing dogs, and lack of pants.
In other news, reasons why today is AWESOME:
- bought myself Chick-Fil-A breakfast
- seeing the love of my life
- Thanksgiving vacation/last day of teaching for a WEEK
- the return of BHB. I love that kid.
November 20, 2009 at 9:07 am
Awesome post coupled with the kid with awesome hair makes this just AWESOME.
You’re right. Nothing like finding out you’re not actually running down your high school hallway naked, am i right boys? ;) I kid, i kid.
Not to mention the wicked head rush. The sudden chilled hands, the “super senses”. Friggin amazing.
Anyway, stay awesome dude. And while you do, ill be riiighttt here to read every one of your posts.
November 20, 2009 at 9:55 am
This happens to me all the time! And yes – it is awesome! Waking up feeling so unsettled and then that moment when the relief just washes over you – none of it was real… ahhhhh….
Also, awesome – later in the day when you think back to your bad dream that morning and can’t even remember what it was about….
November 20, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I, too, salute the return of Bedhead Baby!
Seriously, you should do a post on the awesomeness of re-using previously developed content for a second (or third!) project. And BHB can return once again.
November 20, 2009 at 2:58 pm
For example, my father-in-law totally recycled his “there’s no role for the Father of the Groom” rant in his toast at the wedding of his second son. (A risky move, since half of the guest list already heard it at the first wedding.)
November 20, 2009 at 12:38 pm
The picture of the kid just made me completely reconsider having one. Cutest kid EVER. Plus yah, that is an awesome feeling.
November 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm
omg SO TRUE. this so happened to me the other night when i dreamt i was a nark and ratted out all my friends to clear my record of a “driving without a liscense” conviction. except i couldnt remember if i had actually gotten convicted or not. SO SCARY !
November 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I also hate when I wake up in the middle of the night.
November 20, 2009 at 4:38 pm
ohmygosh. so awesome!
I had a terrible dream and I woke up in sheer panic but then I realized it was just a dream (:
awesome!
November 20, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I hate the bad dreams. I don’t remember most of my dreams anyway so I am lucky.
November 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm
who are you. why are you here? literally.
November 20, 2009 at 10:20 pm
This feels better if you have a room you keep dark to sleep in (not at first, but bear with me). You get over the panic, look at the clock, and throw open the curtains to a bright morning.
AWESOME!
November 21, 2009 at 5:37 am
I smile every time I read these…I can’t help it.
Keep it up, b/c this blog is
AWESOME! :-D
November 22, 2009 at 1:11 am
When I wake up from one of those dreams I let out a sigh of relief, then go, “AWESOME” . . . then “Awww”… . I want to know what’s next, so I try to go back to sleep to see what happens.
November 22, 2009 at 1:45 am
Yet another reason to avoid getting H1N1 or any similar strain of the flu this season…
They will slap you on a drug called Tamiflu.
One side effect of Tamiflu I was unlucky enough to experience…….lucid nightmares that last as long as your on the drug (almost a week).
But oh, the sweet relief every single time I woke up that it was all just a dream.
November 22, 2009 at 1:58 am
Then again, some of us close our eyes each night knowing that we’ll wake up to realize once again that it’s NOT a nightmare.
November 22, 2009 at 1:59 am
But the bedhead baby IS cute.
November 22, 2009 at 3:06 am
fantastic, those moments tamed from living life as a dream so when a nightmare comes along it does not seem any different.
November 22, 2009 at 5:47 am
Yea. But what if you are witnessing a nightmare in wakefulness, how can you wake up?
November 22, 2009 at 11:45 am
Like that split second when you don’t understand what’s going on and you grab your pillow and sheets and go, “Shit. Just a dream!”
November 22, 2009 at 5:14 pm
awesome indeed, although i can’t quite see how the picture relates lol
November 24, 2009 at 3:27 am
I agree that waking up from a bad dream is awesome. However, there is a scenario in which it is not awesome. Waking up, realizing it was a dream, then falling back asleep, and back into the same dream, where all the dream-people say, “no, it really did happen”.
For me this usually happens when I dream that relatives have died.
Dream: Grandma is dead.
Awake:…No, Grandma’s alive
Dream: No, she really is dead, believe me.
Awake:… No…. Wait… What?
(Rinse and Repeat).
Still, the final waking up and realizing that Grandma IS alive (and that she’s making Thanksgiving dinner in three days) is totally AWESOME.
November 26, 2009 at 12:44 am
I remember having a dream where God sucked out my soul. I woke up, and then I knew it was just a dream.
December 4, 2009 at 2:02 am
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December 16, 2009 at 4:22 am
You use that baby picture all the time, but I don’t mind because I crack up laughing every time I see it!
February 1, 2010 at 9:21 am
Its better when you wake up and find your mom there lol