Can't Sleep!

I'm sat in bed typing this on my iPhone in the knowledge that I have to be at work in less than five hours time and my stupid brain won't quieten itself sufficiently to allow me to sleep. Which is all very ironic as I had planned to update my blog with a post about dreams.

I was riding back from a Manchester to Kent on Sunday and I went past a housing estate somewhere off the A5 in the midlands which I instantly recognized from a dream.

It was a late 60s to late 70s development - brick built homes with strategically placed part wooden facades, wide roads for cars and lots of grass and conifer and pine trees. If you've ever seen the film of Farenheit 451 you'd probably see the similarities with those houses and the one Montag lives in.

Anyhow, as I sped past on my Vespa the image from a dream I must have had in the past year jumped straight to the forefront of my mind. In the dream the houses were very much the same but the road going past was a three-lane highway rather than the single one it was in real life and the sky was burnished bronze rather than a flat grey.

As I've only been down this road once before it struck me as quite strange that one night my mind decided to dredge up that fleeting image and see fit to incorporate it into a dream, the rest of which I don't remember.

It got me thinking... If that image was taken from real life than the various strangers that appear in my dreams could be based on people I shared tube train with when I first came to London as a young boy. Have I met you the reader of my ramble in the past and will you feature in my dreams tonight and will my mind slightly alter reality so you have a bigger head or different coloured hair?

To be honest I'm sure you'd rather not know! Ha ha.

Good night....