Not So Short But Sweet

Both this post and what I'm about to tell you about. I took a nap when I got back from my morning classes today. Laid down at 12:15 for the nap and ended up falling asleep within about 2 minutes tops. May have even been one. I was pretty tired. I ended up having a dream. I was skiing at Winter Park ski resort where I went snowboarding this winter break. It didn't look at all like Winter Park, but I knew it was. That's just how dreams work. Well I skiid down this one slope and picked up some speed so I could get up a slight incline to where my friends were. I kind of wonder why I was skiing and not snowboarding, but that's how it was. Anyways. My friends were trying to get up this insanely steep slope. Probably 85 degrees, if not straight up. There wasn't really much of a decline to pick up speed though. One of my friends ga already gone up but the others were a little daunted by it. They weren't scared, just hadn't attempted to go up it yet. Without hesitation I I started skiing down the short decline and by some dream magic, picked up an enormous amount of speed and started to ski straight up this slope. Up and up j went. I would estimate about 400-500 feet. I surpassed some clouds, but I'm still pretty positive it was in that range of height. It started sloping over as you approached the top, kind of like those hypercoasters, Top Thrill Dragster or Kingda Ka. I started slowing dowb abd with about 30-40 feet to go I lost all speed. I started to freefall back down into nothingness, getting that weightless feel and then awoke on my bed.

I'm pretty shocked, for a couple reasons. First, I have never had a falling dream. The most popular and well known dream that it seems everyone has and I've never had one. This was the first time. I don't really know how to explain that. It wasn't bad though. At no time did I really feel fir my life. It was more of just, ah crap, I didn't make it.

The second reason I'm kind if shocked is that this all happened in the span of 9 minutes. When I awoke from the dream, I looked at the clock be it was 2:24. I full expected to look at it and find that I had overslept. I had woken up so quickly that I could've still gone back to sleep, but I really didn't want to. I felt well rested and refreshed. Hipefyll I cab repeat this. Waking up early from a nap is awesome.

I take my next nap at about 5. I'm feeling pretty good so I don't think I'll have any problems. Tonight might he tough though because I have like 3 intramural games tonight so I'm going to be short on time for naps and am sure to be exhausted later tonight. Wish me luck.