Crazybrain thinks crazy things.
For the last week or two I have been having these increasingly frightening recursive dreams. I will dream that I am asleep and dreaming, only to have some horrifying ambient noise partially wake me up, struggle to wake up, only to pull myself out of a dream and into another version of the same dream. This will repeat anywhere from two to seven or eight times. Eventually I'll really wake up, but won't be convinced that I am awake until I actually stand up and move around for a few minutes. The worst part, and the reason I have to convince myself that I'm finally awake, is that every noise, all the lighting, is exactly the same in each dream, and each subsequent dream-within-a-dream. So if each of eight iterations of my room looks and feels exactly the same, how do I know which one is real? At six in the morning it's a lot creepier than it probably sounds in writing. Take it from me, it's goddam terrifying.