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After you've read this, you'll probably be thinking, "now I've heard it all".
About three years ago I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and now use a CPAP machine to help me breath while sleeping. I now get into REM sleep very easily. I dream just about every time I sleep, whether it's just a short nap, or a full night's sleep. I went about 15 years thinking that as people got older they didn't dream very often anymore. My dreams are now very vivid and mostly in color. I remember most of them in great detail also.
It's actually pretty cool, because I look forward to sleeping because of the dreams. Some of them are pretty strange, like the one I'm going to describe that I had last night.
In my dream, I was the "World's Greatest Penguin Racer!" There I was in a pond with four penguins, each of which was attached to a long leash. I was in the middle of the pond spinning in a circle as the penguins swam in a circle around me. My job was to get them lined up one behind the other nice and close together (kind of like a NASCAR restart).
As I noticed any particular penguin going faster or slower then the other penguins, it was my job to pull them closer or let them farther out, so that they could pass each other without bumping into one another. The pond was a bowl shaped pond with steep hills all around it and was packed with cheering spectators.
There as also an Orca in the pond with us, that was trying to catch and eat my penguins, so I had to keep them safe from him also by pulling them in and out with the leash and shouting warnings to the penguins when the Orca was getting close.
By the way, the penguins and the Orca could speak. I"d shout encouragement to my penguins, which even had names. They were Winkie, Dinkie, Pinkie and Do. Do was the slowest, but he always gave his best effort. At one point the Orca was getting close to Do, and as he came out of the water a little preparing to lunge at Do, I could hear Do screaming. The Orca yelled at me, "I'm going to get Do!"
I yelled back, "you're not supposed to go after me, you're supposed to go after the penguins." The Orca yelled back, "Not you, Do". The crowd was booing the Orca, and I yelled back, "I've never lost a penguin yet, and I'm not about to lose Do now!" With that the crowd roared it's approval and I woke up.
What a weird dream!!! But, I am "The World's Greatest Penguin Racer!"
About three years ago I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and now use a CPAP machine to help me breath while sleeping. I now get into REM sleep very easily. I dream just about every time I sleep, whether it's just a short nap, or a full night's sleep. I went about 15 years thinking that as people got older they didn't dream very often anymore. My dreams are now very vivid and mostly in color. I remember most of them in great detail also.
It's actually pretty cool, because I look forward to sleeping because of the dreams. Some of them are pretty strange, like the one I'm going to describe that I had last night.
In my dream, I was the "World's Greatest Penguin Racer!" There I was in a pond with four penguins, each of which was attached to a long leash. I was in the middle of the pond spinning in a circle as the penguins swam in a circle around me. My job was to get them lined up one behind the other nice and close together (kind of like a NASCAR restart).
As I noticed any particular penguin going faster or slower then the other penguins, it was my job to pull them closer or let them farther out, so that they could pass each other without bumping into one another. The pond was a bowl shaped pond with steep hills all around it and was packed with cheering spectators.
There as also an Orca in the pond with us, that was trying to catch and eat my penguins, so I had to keep them safe from him also by pulling them in and out with the leash and shouting warnings to the penguins when the Orca was getting close.
By the way, the penguins and the Orca could speak. I"d shout encouragement to my penguins, which even had names. They were Winkie, Dinkie, Pinkie and Do. Do was the slowest, but he always gave his best effort. At one point the Orca was getting close to Do, and as he came out of the water a little preparing to lunge at Do, I could hear Do screaming. The Orca yelled at me, "I'm going to get Do!"
I yelled back, "you're not supposed to go after me, you're supposed to go after the penguins." The Orca yelled back, "Not you, Do". The crowd was booing the Orca, and I yelled back, "I've never lost a penguin yet, and I'm not about to lose Do now!" With that the crowd roared it's approval and I woke up.
What a weird dream!!! But, I am "The World's Greatest Penguin Racer!"
