Commentary from January 17, 2014
I have these kinds of dreams a lot, even just last night, where I’m back hanging with old friends and it’s like how it used to be. Then I wake up and realize that those people will never be in my life again. Usually I can distract myself from these thoughts in waking hours by reading or watching a movie, but when I’m trapped in a dream there’s no getting around it. Plus, dreams have that ability to make one believe that this is all possible which quickly fades when you wake up, and the hangover of realizing that your own brain has played a dirty trick on you.
As a side note, the three characters in the dream are actually all characters that appeared in earlier strips but I haven’t drawn for a long time, which lends a little bit of credibility to the whole “we don’t hang out anymore”.
I dealt with this for a long time. Now I have a standing prescription for Ambien. I still have the dreams, but I don’t remember them very well (after three years, you build up a tolerance).
Pleasant dreams can be worse than nightmares. When you wake up from a nightmare, things are better.
Dreams about not being depressed are simply heart-breaking.
Welcome to my last night.
Geez how weird. Last night I dreamed about an old best friend who wrote me off 15 years ago when he got married and started a new job. We’d know each other since high school but I didn’t fit his ‘lifestyle’ anymore. I still miss the good times. I wish I didn’t dream.
Carl Eric Von Kleist IV – that’s pretty much the message of the second part of this strip (this is a two-parter). It’s the nice dreams that give you hope that waking up takes away.
I really liked this one. It happens to me frequently, especially the dreaming about my ex’s.
It doesn’t work for everyone, but Rhodiola rosea tea or caps in late evening mean that I’m no longer awake at 03:15 with brain spinning.
O.O
Spot on. Me last night. Ex’s, old friends… uncanny.
luckily, i usually don’t dream. but when i do it’s inevitablly a nightmare.
I’ve never ever dreamt about any of my exes, except for once… and this rare occasion just happened yesterday. What a funny coincidence.
This feels soooo awkward, because it happened to me this night, and I rarely have any dreams at all. Ruined the day right at its beginning. Sad.
I hate dreaming about people who I used to date/hang out. I always wake up way more sad than I was when I fell asleep… Nightmares suck too, though… It’s better to not remember what you dreamt about for sure.