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Dreaming like a bad ‘80s high school romance movie

Posted by Mark | Filed under Dreams

I didn’t sleep so good last night, not quite sure why. I went to bed late and was com­pletely exhausted but par­tially woke up a cou­ple of hours before the alarm clock went off. My wrist braces¹ were both­er­ing my hands, so I took them off and tried going back to sleep. That sort of worked but it wasn’t really good sleep, as I was still some­what awake. Though that did allow me to some­what real­ize that I was dream­ing while I was doing so. Unfor­tu­nately, I either had no con­trol over the dream or I did and just never cared to change it. Also, I had the dis­tinct impres­sion that this was not the first time I’ve had this par­tic­u­lar dream, though I can­not recall any other time that I’ve woken from this dream.

So what was the dream? It had all the ear­marks of some bad high-school romance movie from the ‘80s. There were 3 main characters:

• NERD: This was the main char­ac­ter of the movie and the one that the cam­era²
• GIRL: This was the main character’s love inter­est. She’s one of the pop­u­lar girls at school, though not a cheer­leader and is know to be friendly towards most every­body at school.
• JOCK: This was the main character’s rival for GIRL and a mem­ber of the school’s foot­ball team. He’s also one of the pop­u­lar kids at school, but is not known as a friendly guy. Also, I think it’s likely he came from a wealthy back­ground (or at least his folks are bet­ter off than NERD’s folks).

NERD falls in love with GIRL who goes to the same school.
JOCK is dat­ing the GIRL (maybe? can’t recall the early bits for sure) but really isn’t wor­thy of her in any case.
NERD starts “court­ing” GIRL, send­ing flow­ers and doing nice things for her.
GIRL sees NERD in new light after see­ing him help var­i­ous peo­ple.
JOCK causes trou­ble for NERD when he real­izes what’s going on.
NERD doesn’t real­ize that GIRL was start­ing to like him, but tired of being picked on stud­ies up on sports & pop­u­lar stuff.
NERD becomes pseudo-jock and GIRL loses inter­est in him because NERD isn’t as nice as before.
NERD’s nerdy friends dump NERD for the same rea­son that GIRL lost inter­est.
NERD is con­fused by all these changes in his life.
JOCK is still mostly clue­less at this point.
Then there’s a bit of a jump in the “movie” and we’re near the end, at the final foot­ball game of the sea­son and the JOCK’s team is los­ing badly.
NERD calls in his nerdy friends (after much apol­o­giz­ing on his part, they for­give him) and they write mas­sive cal­cu­la­tions on a white­board con­vinc­ing the coach to put NERD into the game.
NERD works with the entire team to save the game and they end up win­ning.
JOCK not happy that the NERD “saved them” and starts a fight after the game.
JOCK lands a few blows, but nerd has stud­ied up on fight­ing too and ends up turn­ing tables on JOCK, beat­ing him into uncon­cious­ness. I think that JOCK taunted NERD about GIRL for a while and what he planed on doing to/with her.
GIRL nowhere to be seen.
Starts to rain.
NERD moves JOCK’s body into shel­tered area to get him out of rain.
Sees JOCK’s team pin fell off and that another foot­baller is stand­ing next to it. Asks foot­baller to hand it to him to give it back to jock.
Dream jumps, but impres­sion is that foot­baller doesn’t like JOCK and gives pin to nerd.
NERD stand­ing in rain out­side GIRL’s house, but lights are out.
Then NERD sees some lights (candles/flashlights) flare up and real­izes that somebody’s home but the power’s out.
NERD heads up to the house and is invited in by girl’s father.
Father looks like very suc­cess­fully & fit nerd. Mother in back­ground is gor­geous like the GIRL, just older.
Father asks mother to get hot drinks (guess the stove is gas) and a towel for the boy, “as they’ve got a lot to talk about”.

Then I woke up. Oh and in case you’re won­der­ing, I used NERD/GIRL/JOCK because I can’t remem­ber their “real names” ever being said dur­ing the dream.

¹ I’ve had prob­lems with my wrists and good ol’ Doc said it was likely RSI. He also rec­om­mended wear­ing braces on my wrists while I sleep. This has worked quite well for me, but my old braces were falling apart and I recently replaced with some new ones, but they don’t fit quite as well.
² A lot of my dreams seem to make me feel like I’m either sit­ting behind the cam­era film­ing some­thing or I’m sort of an invis­i­ble entity float­ing along side the main char­ac­ter in the dream, able to see every­thing hap­pen­ing in their area as well as get a sense of what peo­ple in the imme­di­ate area are feeling.

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