I can always remember my dreams– and they’re vivid, strange things.
When you combine that fact with my struggles with morning, it creates a full minute everyday where I completely believe in something impossible– or at the very least, unlikely.
It takes me awhile to unravel it.
I ran into this t-shirt design the other day and it perfectly sums up the first few minutes of every one of my mornings:
This morning, for example, I woke up convinced that a bat that hit my best friend’s car was actually a person. I believed that she was going to come over and explain why she committed to becoming involved in a long legal process to collect repair damages from it.
The image in my mind was of a man in a bat-shaped suit hitting her car slightly in a dinged-up yellow truck.
I was annoyed on her behalf and replaying my witness report– until the lights on my brain started turning on and I realized that I had not witnessed the accident and that people don’t walk around in bat-shaped suits.
Clearly, this was a dream.
After my first sip of coffee, I realized that she didn’t even ever have a minor car accident with a bat, or a minor car accident at all.
At this point in the mornings, I always become a little unsure of what’s real and what’s not. It’s not uncommon for me to ask Dave things like, “Do I have a best friend?” just to try to whittle the untruths out of my mind.
You can call me Holmes. Velociholmes.
It’s inevitably a silly moment, no matter how much I try to sneak in the question without drawing suspicion, but it’s also always a precious moment to me.
Throughout the day, I believe that everything is possible… but for a few fleeting moments every morning, I truly believe that nothing is unpossible. *
And, as they say, perhaps that has made all the difference.
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Do you remember your dreams? Do you believe unpossible things, too? Especially in the morning before coffee?
* The fine details of grammar say that those two concepts are exactly the same except one version includes an impossible word. Clearly, grammar has never feasted on double-negatives and dreams.
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