Dreams in the News

So falling asleep to an NPR radio station has it's drawbacks. At night and most parts of the day, KBIA plays classical music (sometimes some wierd new age stuff at night) but in the morning it's National Public Radio... ie: the news. Right around that timeframe between deep sleep and wakefulness, when your dreams can be affected by outside stimulation that's just outside your peripheral awareness.

More than once I've woken up from dreams directly related to the news I'm hearing. A few weeks ago, my dream took place in Iraq. I was in a troop transport vehicle (not as a part of the military... I'm not sure what my purpose there was) and somehow our best chance of surviving a roadside bomb was to stand along the edges of the vehicle with our hands in the air. *shrugging* I never said the dreams made sense... lol But sure enough, there was a story on NPR about yet more of our troops dying from a roadside bomb.

Just last night, my dream took a slightly different twist... I dreamed I was listening to reports of a downed plane in Greece, WHILE I was crashing on a plane in Australia. It was pretty detailed... for some reason I had a head-on view from my passenger seat, and the plane was going down at a landing angle, only over the water between a couple of piers. Both wings snap off on the piers, and the body of the plane crashes down into a dry dock of sorts. Everybody's perfectly fine. And the whole time the plane is going down, I'm not afraid... just annoyed that the news keeps going on and on about the Greece plane, and nothing about mine. lol How narcissistic can I get?

On the one hand, waking up to NPR provides some entertaining dreams... on the other hand, my dreams are also beginning to take a rather dark turn. I may have to adjust my radio station back to innocuous pop and soft rock. :)