Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Rare African disease that makes really weird shit happen

It’s only Tuesday and I am exhausted. I only had 2 classes today and  came home after lunch around 1. I then proceeded to fall asleep till 3. I have a theory it may have something to do with my dreams. I don’t know the cause but I have been having some REALLY weird dreams lately. I thought once I was settled, they would go away but nope. These dreams aren‘t your typical floating in the sky kinda dream, these are your scary eyes are open, moving around the house still dreaming kinda dreams. Luckily I haven’t walked outside yet. But I have taken my mosquito net down and put it back up again because I thought I was moving, but more on that dream later .
My first dream consisted of the children. I dreamt that the students were surrounding my house and hanging out inside my room. But they weren’t there doing just nothing. They were trying to teach me their sign names. I was lying on my back in bed as the children were surrounding me, hanging in my window, sitting on my bed. I was trying to tell them to stop and that it was slightly inappropriate for them to be here ( the ladies were out, plus it was my room!) but they wouldn’t listen. So I just sat there, arms crossed , frustrated, trying to wait them out. They won. I think I fell asleep before they left. I woke up the next morning finding out the kids were a dream but the pimple was not.

My second night ,I dreamt I was in staff meetings all day. Except, there were no lights and I had my sleeping bag with me, which was embarrassing. I was also sitting on my bed while everyone else was sitting at their desk which I found a little odd. Not to mention I had the ladies out. Even in your dreams you are self conscious about the ladies hanging out. It’s not a good feeling. Anyway, every time I would look around, I was in a different room except I had my sleeping bag and no bra still. But then I figured out if I closed my eyes, I could jet myself back to my room. But every time I opened them again, I was in another meeting sitting on my bed with my sleeping bag and no bra still. I wasn’t getting anywhere. I think I finally fell asleep due to frustration.
For my third crazy dream, the school woke me up and told me I was going to move to the south part of the dorms. So, I thought to myself I should start packing, I have a lot of shit. Except I hate packing and never know where to start. So, I sat in my bed contemplating it for awhile. As I was sitting on my bed thinking and looking at all my stuff, 2 things happened. 1st, I had found a pimple, my first pimple by the way since I have been in Kenya and the 2nd was the mosquito net kept getting in my way. Ah ha! I figured out what to pack up first. So, in the dark mind you, I started take down my mosquito net but I couldn’t find the bag to carry it. So frustrated I sat back down on my bed with my mosquito net bunched around me, cursing the world for my pimple and my missing bag. I think that’s when it started to sink in… we don’t have a south part of the dorms. Well, things started to get a little hazy after that. I didn’t understand why they would want me to move in the middle of the night with no lights on. So I decided to go back to sleep and deal with it in the morning.
Now you see why I am so tired?! I am starting to think I may have some rare African disease that causes really weird shit to happen to you at night. What do you think?

2 comments:

  1. Are you still taking your Malaria tablets? They are likely the cause of the crazy dreams...fyi

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  2. I am but I am taking doxy which shouldnt cause weird dreams.

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