This morning I woke up and looked at the clock to see "7:30" in glowing red digital numbers. I promptly rolled over, closed my eyes, and seconds later re-opened them to the glow of "9:00." What happened inside my head and behind my eyes during that hour and a half was possibly the best, most 90s, most odd, and most awesome dream of my life.
I had watched a few episodes of "HUGE" before bed which I blame for my throwback to high school state of mind, but beyond that, I can only credit my brain for coming up with such an amazing bit of dreamworld.
I arrived at the Family Matters home of characters Harriette and Carl, which in my dream was a bed and breakfast. I booked my usual room there and proceeded to their family room which promptly turned into a giant cavernous room and began to fill with some of my childhood favorites. First, in walked the New Kids on the Block, then my best friend from childhood, then one of my gay husbands from college. The room slowly filled with more of my childhood friends and tv family such as all of the cast of TGIF, The Backstreet Boys, and various other late 80s and 90s sitcom characters.
I remember turning to my best friend and telling her, "If the New Kids on the Block sing 'The Right Stuff,' I will pass out!" She agreed.
The scene then turned into a giant dessert bar, and we all gorged to our hearts content (that I'll blame squarely on my pre-sleep tv watching) and suddenly our surroundings were a lush tropical porch in Hawaii.
I woke up then, notably forcing my body awake at the ridiculous thought of Chicago, IL suddenly becoming Maui. Apparently that threw me over the edge mentally, not the idea that Steve Urkel's neighbor's house was really a B+B I frequented.
Tell me your funniest or most memorable dreams in the comments, creative readers!
I often wake up at 7 and fall back to sleep where the dreams comes fast and furious. They usually involve my mother-in-law and my parents and my hometown of LeMars. I always seem to be running late for a parade...partially dressed in my marching band uniform and looking for Steve. Sometimes I make it to the parade on time, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I ask Steve's mom where he is and she tells me he went back to school. Sometimes she helps me find him. My dreams always involve the same characters and the same situations with different outcomes.
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