dreams.

bella decided that the best way to wake me up this morning was to bite my arm - completely unprovoked, with no explanation, followed by a jaunty jump off the bed. in that space i occupy right before waking up, as my body is pushing through the layers of sleep, i have the most vivid dreams, and these are the dreams that i remember, if i do. so this morning, i woke up more than a little pissed, and a little freaked out. i dreamt that i was teaching last night, but it was in some sort of woody area in a log cabin-type thing, and the class was huge and they were in a large oval shape around the edge of a room, and there were two boards on two different walls, but not everyone could see because it was such a large space. the overlap between this dream and my notdream is that i am starting a new class tonight, and they had a sub for the first class because my office double-booked me, so i am a bit nervous as i hate the idea of giving up control of my class by having someone else start it for me, and that was incorporated in the dream. anyway, i woke up in kind of a sweat, nervous, because half the class had left at the break, which people just took, because they thought it was a waste of time.

so then i was kind of up because bella bit me, and i was upset and mumbling about it, and it was later than i realized, but as lara and i were talking - me more mumbling and unresponsive than anything - i managed to burrow myself deeper in the bed, and fell asleep in the classic lara way, which is to say, i was awake one minute and asleep the next. the next thing i know, i'm kind of floating in my dream world, and all i see are trees - tall tall trees, and there was someone standing in the middle of a ring of trees (me?), and there were signs on the trees that said NO EXIT, and when i looked up (i'm pretty sure it was me), i couldn't see the sun because the trees were so tall, and i remember thinking, this is so hobbit-esque (do you remember? i forget which book it was in, but the hobbits were in a forest and it was scary because they couldn't figure out how to get out - i'm pretty sure it was in the two towers because that's where i remember the ents were...), minus the signs on the trees. and then i hear lara laughing and saying "...aaaand you're sleeping again, aren't you?"

so what does it all mean? the bucolic dreams? in both dreams, i wasn't really freaked out by any of it, even though i knew that in both, things were not going well, but i was largely unaffected. the recurrence of trees, circle-like shapes, being surrounded with no clear exit and my surprising attitude in both...what does it all mean?