a visit to china

this morning i had one of those deep dreams that take hold of your whole brain and body. i was woken up from the dream by a friend calling to remind me that we were going running this morning and that i needed to get up. the phone jack in our bedroom isn’t working, so i had to get out of bed and stumble into the other room to answer the call. i was so tied up in my dream still that i could barely talk and walking was difficult. the weirdest part about this dream was that at the end, we were driving over a very muddy, rutted road in china and china was singing me a song. the song went something like this: ‘i am old, i am old, i am very, very old…’ and there were violins and cellos in the background. (and no, before you get snarky, it was not about me being old, it was about china being old!)

the song is still going through my head. if i stop singing it, i will lose the song and then the dream will fade. i still want to be a little bit in china. i can’t remember ever having a dream before where there was a distinct enough soundtrack that it got stuck in my head. and that it was a song i’d never heard before. of course, i’m sure the tune is from somewhere. i’ll probably hear it on the radio today. but for now, i’m still listening to cellos. shhh.