THE DAILY DIVERSION

Well, before I got out of bed anyway! Man, I had a ton of crazy dreams last night, but one was pretty disturbing.

For some reason my parents are back together, but much younger. I'm my current age and Adrianne is hers, and we're together. However, I'm in high school again. To make matters crazier, I already know everything that happened after high school.

So, I'm piling books into a duffel bag and getting ready to head to school one morning. My Dad is laying on his stomach on the couch, apparently naked under just a small blanket. My Mom is sitting on the couch with him, right around where his torso is.

We're discussing something, but I'm not sure what it is. I know I'm talking about another male child, and I'm guessing that I have a younger brother somehow. Come to find out he was caught with comic books at school and all I can say is "I didn't know he liked comic books, where are they?"

So we continue chatting and I say to my Mom "Well, we already know that I graduated, so I don't understand why I'm going again". Which she replies "Well, don't get so cocky. You're not done just with school just yet."

I go to walk out of the door when all of a sudden there's a loud "BANG", much like a gunshot.

I immediately wake up (in real life). I sat up for a second and I couldn't hear anything. I got out of bed and kind of ran to the other bathroom where Adrianne was getting for work. I ask her "Did you just hear a loud bang, like a gun shot?"

She looks at me perplexed and says "No".

I go back to bed, but begin thinking, instead of sleeping. I start thinking about all of the things I've heard about brain aneurysms and how, supposedly, the last thing the person hears is a "BANG" or "POP".

So, I start thinking "Did I just die? Am I just laying here in bed, waiting for Adrianne to find me, dead? Oh, I hope that hasn't happened."

I'm pretty frazzled by it all. I've been having some premonitions of things that have been happening lately, and I was hoping this wasn't one of them. I even pinch myself to make sure I can still feel pain. It takes a few tries, but I finally pinch hard enough for me to feel it.

I stay awake until Adrianne comes into the room to let me know she's heading to work. I wanted to make sure that if I was dead that I saw her one last time.

She comes in, gives me a kiss on the cheek, and tells me she loves me. My day can finally begin the right way!