odd normalcy

so i don't usually remember my dreams, or at least i haven't for months. but these past few days - i don't know what's happened but i've been remembering some dreams and feel like i should be recording them. they were very real (but my dreams usually are).


1
so i was driving on a highway (think: 290) and there was a moderate amount of traffic and i was about to get off the highway at an exit (a left exit mind you) but there were a few cars ahead of me doing the same. i look over into the next lane and i see a huge truck (read: not a wimpy little thing - but a 60 ft truck) and it was driving backwards. The truck was facing the oncoming traffic, but had the truck in reverse and was going pretty fast, mind you, with the driver's head sticking out the window looking (it's hard to be a truck driving backwards on a highway, you know). i was a little mesmerized. the truck then did a three point turn into the off ramp and continued driving off the highway like it was nothing. i'd never seen that before. have you?

2
i was with my parents by some port (boston?) one late afternoon. my mom had this great idea to go out on the water using those little blow up tubes - the same ones 5 year olds use - those flimsy pieces of plastic. so we jumped into those and then into the water and paddled out a little. that's where we saw this beautiful blue whale. he came right up to us and was completely beautiful (i'd never seen a whale in person) and nudged right up against us gently.

3
i had gone to some conference in ma for the past day or two and it had been a great experience - the dream wasn't about the conference at all, but i just "knew" i had been there, and besides i had met some ladies there and was spending some time with them. anyways, there was a "part two" of the conference happening this weekend and i was really interested in going. the girls were as well and invited me to come along with them as they were driving there. i thought it was going to be in new york so i said sure and we went off to some bj's like warehouse and were buying snacks for the road (i almost bought some ice cream, but realized that would be silly because it would just melt). we also went to some clothes store because my new friends like to shop. they were kind of leaving me behind a little, but it was okay because we were very different people (i didn't have much in common with them at all). then i found out that the conference was in central america and i was really mad - central america, you've got to be kidding me. (especially since it would take 2 days just to get down there driving straight 48 hours and i had thought we would be back by saturday-today being friday- and these girls didn't seem to realize anything; they were just like "yeah, we're just going to drive down to central america, shouldn't take that long." i doubted they even knew where central america was) anyways, i woke up. it's okay though. i wouldn't have gone anyways because i wanted to be back by nightfall friday. i couldn't believe they were going to drive to central america.