What happens when I receive a text message in the middle of the night: I sleepily reach over and fumble for my phone, read the message in a semiconscious state, put my phone back while knocking over a few things, and then go back to sleep. Sometimes I'll respond if my brain registers what I'm reading, but I rarely do because I'm way too sleepy to function.

When I wake the next morning, the first thing that comes to mind is, "Did that text message really happen or was that just a dream?" I almost always think it's a dream text but then I look at my phone and it's... real. On a few occasions, some of the texts were reminders and I didn't realize that those were REAL reminders until I was out the door (face palm). When dreams and reality blur together...

So, I got a text message in the middle of the night last night, and that's what happened. Except... I didn't sleep much after that. I dreamt about getting text messages from random people about the most random things (but it all made sense because everything in dreams make sense). In turn, I woke up every hour checking my phone. After I'd check my phone, I would lie back down and go, "Why did I do that...?" Eventually I fell asleep for what seemed like 10 minutes before my alarm went off. When I got up this morning, I glanced suspiciously at my phone, wondering if I actually got all those texts... turns out, it was the just the one. Whew, I'm not going crazy.

...I can't tell if my dreaming about texting is better or worse than my dreaming in hex codes. (In the hex codes defense, that was a very pretty dream.)

—Thursday, October 22, 2009       2 comments       back & forth       Dreaming about text messages


Can you tell us about the hex code dream?

And sorry if that was my text--I was excited!
Captain-P
23 Oct 09 at 9:44 AM

i do that! i've received a few "inappropriate" text messages and woke up in the morning wondering if i just had a funny dream.
denise
24 Oct 09 at 8:34 AM