Dreams

Do you have any strange, but memorable dreams?  What triggers them for you? 

I often have some strange dreams and usually seem to occur on nights where I have eaten strawberries the day of... I am not sure how strawberries cause such craziness, but it happens way too often to be purely coincidental. 

This past Friday I had a very real-feeling dream.  It was not like my other dreams... ones that seem to include random people, locations that change in a moment within the same dream, etc.  This time I dreamt of my dad.  It is the first time that I can recall him specifically in a dream.  Does that mean I didn't have dreams with him in it before?  No.  It just means that I can't remember them! 

This dream was amazing and truly wishful thinking.  Dad called to say that he wasn't gone... to say he was at his house... I can remember just responding to him in that typical tv show style of disbelief and anger and fear.  Not believing that he was okay, angry because I was put throught that pain if he really was okay, and fearful that it was all a dream.  Of course it was a dream, but when I awoke I felt calmed.  I felt touched.  I felt sad, but also as though that was my 'sign'.  My sign that he was okay, just not here physically. 

No matter the message or the interpretation of the dream... I love you Dad!