Sweet Dreams are made of this.
A dream is a wish, your heart makes.
Thunder only happens when it's raining.
I believe you can get me through the night.
I thought of the theme today and four songs came into my head, in this order. Can you name them all or at least give me artist or movie they came from?
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"Your attention ladies and gentlemen. The captain has put on the seat belt light. We are beginning our descent into Zurich."
I started awake and quickly looked out my window and could see the sun shining off of Lake Zurich and the Swiss Alps in the distant background. Yesterday, I had been in San Francisco and now I was getting ready to land in Switzerland.
I started to think back over what had happened in the last 48 hours or so, but it was a blur. All that I knew is Herman was here somewhere and someone wanted me to go here as well. It was all very suspicious, but I hadn't paid for the ticket, so I figured I was getting a free vacation out of the deal.
My next thought was realizing that we were taxiing to the gate. I reached in the overhead for my carry on, the only thing I had brought with me. Suddenly, my phone buzzed. A text.
"Go to the Uetilbergbahn and get a ticket at Seinau station for the upper station. From there, walk to the summit of Uetilberg. You will know what to do once you get there."
To be continued...
Dreams are an interesting phenomena. They can happen at any time, they can be controlled, and yet can also not be controlled. I'm at the point in my life where I dream a lot more than I used to for a variety of reasons, both literally and figuratively.
About a year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I snore. Go figure. However, I'm a shallow breather, that is to say, I take such shallow breaths that my body constantly wakes me up to take a deeper breath while I'm sleeping. When I did the sleep study, I was waking up to take a deeper breath 59 times per hours. Needless to say, I wasn't getting much restful sleep and not much dreaming.
Now, I don't wake up much at all. I sleep like the proverbial log. Dreams are a nice side effect of this as well. It's like having a movie in your head and you're part of the picture, but you never know how it's going to turn out.
Other dreams however, I control. For example, because of my age and how many years I've been employed, I find myself dreaming of retirement. It sometimes gets very tough when you see co-workers leaving, because their situation makes it easier for them to retire or they're slightly older than you and it's their turn to leave. Eventually, that will happen for me too.
I'm looking forward to retirement so I can concentrate full time on my photography. Five years ago, I started a 365 project, taking a photo every day for a year. It went so well, that I completed a second year. 720 straight days where I took a photo. Then I took some time off.
This year, I decided I wanted to try it again. So far, that has fallen flat. I don't pick my camera up nearly enough right now. I know what I want to take photos of, but I can't, because work is getting in the way. That happens, so I dream about when I can go out and just take photos for a day, just to see what I can get.
It's fun to dream. P.J. even wrote about dreaming what he would do if he won the lottery. That's three quarters of the fun, because we all know we're not going to win, but it's fun to dream about what could have been, or what will be should we ever get lucky. My retirement dreams are a little bit different than that, because somewhere down that road, those dreams will come true.
