the dreams and the childrens

[alexr_rwx]

My kids at camp are tiny and clever and polite and musical! They've been making their little robots sing songs (like the intro to Stairway to Heaven, other standard rock songs, and the occasional classical piece -- kids these days! So talented!) ... and building twirly rides ("torture devices", sometimes) for Lego people, and one kid, Wyatt, totally built a little car that flashes lights and drives around while playing music. Other cool projects have made use of sensors, like blinking little lights when you press a button, or spinning something faster or slower depending on how much noise you make, or countdown timers -- looping and variables are not immediately obvious, but the knowledge is spreading -- I'm having the kids explain it to one another.

And when it's time to go, they clean up the little robot kits so quickly, sometimes without being asked. So well-mannered. "Well, I went to Cotillion", one explained.

And I took a nap.

And I had one of those weird trying-to-wake-up dreams. In my dream, my friend Wes, from highschool was knocking on the door and coming into my room, but I was naked (in the dream -- I'd fallen asleep with clothes on in real life), so I was like "wait, just a minute, I'll be right with you..." ... and I was aware that I was having trouble waking up. And I thought "this is sleep paralysis, hrm -- haven't I had a similar situation before?". And I felt like someone was in the room, and I tried really hard to open my eyes, to see if it was Wes, or somebody else, but I couldn't. I could only open them a little bit, and I could never quite look up to see who was there...

I tried really hard to get out of bed, and in the dream, I tumbled out, headlong, onto the floor, but I still couldn't see...

Then I dreamed that I'd woken totally up, and there was a weird page about Java 1.6 on my monitor, and I was trying to figure out how that got there... and then I realized that my desk was in the wrong place in the room...

And when I woke up, and Wes hadn't come to visit me, and my desk was in the right place, and I could move just fine, and I hadn't actually thought about Java 1.6 for weeks. If you dream about sleep paralysis, is it real sleep paralysis?

Comments

[cola-fan.livejournal.com]

Camp sounds awesome.

Sleep paralysis dreams, not so much.

[rocketgirl13.livejournal.com]

the kids sound like fun. i know my campers usually keep me fully entertained.

i liket he cotillion explaination. i can see the comment being said in my head and it makes me smile.

[msbeanhead.livejournal.com]

Oh I know what our son is getting for his fifth birthday...