WEIRD?

I’m not strange, but maybe a little weird. Or perhaps you do the following also, but don’t notice:

For years I have occasionally woken myself from dreaming by hearing various noises. What’s weird is that the kind of noise adheres to the place I’m sleeping. If I’m living in a house without a doorbell, the noise is knocking at my front door. If my house has a doorbell, it rings. If I have a cell phone that rings.

Once I woke to the sound of a dog in my hallway and went back to sleep, figuring it was my daughter with her dog making a surprise visit. In the morning I found the guest bedroom empty; no dog, no daughter.

Yesterday I woke to what I assumed to be my daughter’s radio alarm. I looked at my watch and it was 9 a.m. She has to be at work at 8:10 a.m., so I called out upstairs to see if she had overslept. When there was no answer I was about to go up to see if she was okay, when I saw that a sweater I had been helping her with the night before was no longer on the arm of the chair, so I relaxed.

After a few minutes puzzling, I realized that I didn’t even have my hearing aids in, so I couldn’t have heard the radio upstairs. Besides, I later discovered she doesn’t even have a radio alarm. Moreover, my short term memory surfaced and I realized I had called out “Mother!” [No wonder there was no answer?]

This dream awakening to match my living arrangements can’t be just old age, because it’s sporadically occurred over 30 years. Last time I had decided that next time I would immediately focus on what I had been dreaming, to see if there was a clue there, but I was too “out of it.”

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BRIEF BRIEFS

Since I’ve already begun being frivolous, here’s something I scribbled going to sleep the other night:

When upset how do you respond?

yell___ curse____ cry____ pout____ throw things____ clam up____ scream____ drink____

snort____ eat____ sleep____ laugh____ hit yourself____ hit others____ pray____ discuss____

write____ sing____ turn on tv____ OOPS, I FORGOT: kill____ swindle___ blackmail____

self immolate____

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DID YOU EVER TRY TO WRITE AN HONEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

If you have re-owned traits formerly projected in Jung’s Shadow, how do you handle it? How do you manage to not

sound like making excuses? Or bragging?

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OH PLEASE….

Mr. Trump ultimately sued ABC, accusing Mr. Stephanopoulos of harming his reputation. Shoulda gone to Court. What reputation? The one he usually brags about?

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YAY!