Sweet Dreams

In 8th grade I had a friend named Virginia. We used to talk on the phone all the time (that was what you did in middle school, in the early 90s, before text messaging, MySpace and Miley Cyrus). Virginia had a crush on this guy named Marvin. She used to have very intricate dreams, some of them including Marvin, and we used to talk for HOURS, trying to interpret the dreams and whether or not they meant she and Marvin were destined for one another.

I hated having these conversations with Virginia. Her dreams were really abstract and long and I just had no idea on how to analyze them. Furthermore, I never could understand how Virginia remembered her dreams in so much detail. I have never had that gift; occasionally I will remember a memorable or disturbing dream, and share it with someone. But I try not to subject my girlfriends to hour-long phone conversations about my dreams - I don't know anyone who has a BA in Dream Interpretation . . .

For the last 4 months though, I have had some VERY vivid dreams. Last night, I had a very interesting dream. I was a cop, my partner was Will Smith, and we were trying to bring down a gang of rogue cops in our precinct. In fact, it was so vivid, I was disappointed when the alarm clock went off - I still don't know if I was able to out the dirty cops.

I consulted one of my pregnancy books this morning as I heard that vivid dreams are a part of pregnancy. Surprisingly, "What to Expect When You Are Expecting" didn't have any mentions of dreams that involved dirty cops or Will Smith. My dream really didn't fall into any of the categories mentioned in the book (categories included "Oops! dreams" and "Life with baby dreams" among others). The book said that the vivid dreams you have are your way of working out your worries and fears about motherhood in a nonthreatening way.

I have no idea what my dream meant, but I welcome any comments.

I should totally look up Virginia on Facebook . . . I am assuming almost 20 years later that she is over the dream analysis stuff.