Ack. Some good ones. Lost all but one. Maybe they'll come back as I type.
First off, of late I find myself waking up within an hour of the alarm and needing to use the bathroom; often taking some time to get back to sleep then. So I've taken to having a 2nd alarm on standby for 30 minutes later because I feel cheated by waking up before the alarm but so close to it that it will go off just as I get back to sleep. As I've mentioned, if I'm having dreams, I'll keep hitting a 15 minute snooze until I stop. Well this morning I'm like "this seems like an awful long 15 minutes" and, sure enough, I hadn't started the snooze timer.
Next I'll say--although I don't know if this has always been the case and I only just noticed it or it was just a one-off dream--that my brain used Duluth, MN (or at least based the location on it) as an urban backdrop for tonight's dreams. At that point in my life, I'd spent a fair amount of my life in and around Duluth, but at this point, I've lived a lot longer in other cities. Only thing I can think is that it's a handy location for dreaming. At around...150,000? it's big enough to feel like a city but small enough that you can walk through downtown pretty quickly and easily. Being sandwiched between Lake Superior and a big ridgeline makes the city very linear too, which is likely useful for the subconscious in dreams.
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OK. All that out of the way, in the only dream I (still) remember from last night, I was playing "fetch" at a friend's apartment that butted up against a field of tall grass. I threw the ball (an old deflated kickball?) toward the far corner and my friend was like "NO!" Apparently there is a neighbor there on the adjacent street (so his backyard abuts the apartment complex) with 2 big pitbulls that roam off leash and sure enough, they came tearing out into the common area after the ball. My dog, which was kind of an amalgamation of both my dogs, hadn't really gone after the ball and the other dogs hadn't noticed her yet--or at least weren't that interested in her. I was able to call her over but, being a dream, it was slow going and she'd stop for a bit and the other playing dogs would happen to come in her direction for a bit. I finally got her through the sliding glass patio door just about the time the big one noticed her.
And that's it. Crap, I wish I could remember the rest. I think we were eating in a Mexican restaurant in one but that's all I got.