Iron Pol

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that were so sure was real?  What if you were unable to wake from that dream?  How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? - Morpheus, The Matrix

That's sort of how I felt, Monday morning.  It was about 3:30 a.m. when my daugther woke me up by pulling on my arm as she tried to climb into our bed.  I climbed out of bed, took her back to her room, and got her to go back to sleep.  I was back in my own bed by 4:00 a.m.

And promptly woke up by my son, who wanted me to hang out with him.  I put him back in bed, only to find my daughter heading back to toward my bed, as she had woke up, again.  This went on for the thirty minutes that remained until my alarm went off.

This is where you would cue the buzzing alarm, with Neo face down on his computer keyboard.  I sat up in my bed, angry at having been kept awake since 3:30, only to realize that at least some of it had to be a dream.  Obviously, I had been sleeping.  I checked on my daughter and found her asleep on her bedroom floor.  So, somewhere between her attempting to scale my arm and my alarm going off, I had been caught up in a very realistic dream.

Now, if I could only figure out how to race a triathlon in the Matrix.  I'm sure my residual body swims much better than my real body.  And, as Morpheus said, "Do you think that's air you're breathing?"

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