Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I think I'm going crazy

There must have been something wacky in my dinner last night because I had the most vivid dreams. First I had a dream that there was a big, like 1 foot long, lizard in my bedroom. See, I do have a gecko that kind of lives in/around my apartment. She disappeared during the winter but now is back. I see her every few days, usually in my living room. I don’t mind her because she is small and also because apparently geckos eat mosquitoes, and really, there isn’t much I can do about it. However the one in my dream was really big and freaked me out…but it is a sign of how very different things are here that when I woke up I thought it had really happened and it didn’t seem that impossible that a big lizard could be in my apartment. Extremely unlikely but not impossible.
Then I had another dream that there was a big marching band parade thing going on in my neighborhood at around 5 a.m. It was super loud. This dream I was completely convinced had happened and I almost asked someone why there was a big parade at 5 a.m., then I realized how silly that would have sounded. I mean it is loud here, very loud, pretty much all the time, either music, or horns honking, or just the fact that people talk really loudly here, but I think that even the average Indian would object to being woken up at 5 by such loud music.
I don’t know why I had such crazy dreams but it really says something about life here that I didn’t consider either event to be completely impossible. Unlikely yes, but not impossible.
Here’s hoping I don’t have any more wacky dreams for a while, it is exhausting enough living in such a different reality, it would be nice if my dreams would stay a bit more sane.

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