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I had a strange dream last night as I was drifting off to sleep. The dream was contained within a brief episode of hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia, I’m uncertain which is correct), which is the transition point between waking reality and dream that occurs as you are falling asleep in the evening. In this state, you are still awake, but your brain may begin dreaming a bit early, giving vivid and lucid dreams that slide in and out of your mind as your brain shifts gears into sleep. Sometimes this can also result in a sudden ‘falling’ sensation as your perceptions shift between your waking self, and your dreaming self. If you ever experience little ‘starts’ as you are falling asleep, causing you to twitch because you suddenly felt like you were falling, you were probably experiencing a form of hypnagogia.

The dream itself was of me reading a book in bed. In reality, I had recently been reading one, but it wasn’t in my hands anymore. The strange thing though was that it was a pop-up book with 3-D pictures of women. The women were wearing old fashioned clothing, and were posing as if modeling it. I started to get disturbed when I realized that every single woman had the face of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower. The founder of our national interstate highway system was smiling back at me from numerous images of posing pop-up women. It was very strange, but the dream ended as soon as it began. The whole dream was probably encased within a less than 60 second block, but it felt like a long time. It was very real, and I experienced a strong sense of confusion as I slid out of the dream and back into a more wakeful mindset, and I realized that I was no longer holding the book. I tried to remember where I had set it down, when I realized that I didn’t have a pop-up book of Ike Eisenhower wearing women’s clothing, not to mention the fact that such a book probably doesn’t exist anywhere.

P.S. If you have such a book, or know where I could find one, I’d be much appreciative.

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