Dreams

The curmudgeon is an intense dreamer - he often awakes wondering if all that stuff was real - full color, the whole bit.


Then he bores his wife to death recounting the dream, because he remembers them, which, apparently many people don't.


Of late, in his advancing years, he does awake thinking the dream sequence actually happened, and sort of panics - actually, really panics.  But in the 5 minutes or so to awake, he settles down because Scruffy is clawing at his face for breakfast and reality sets in.


But, boy, that was a good dream.