I awoke this morning to a, not unpleasant, I need to pee pressure in my nether regions and a rather cinematic, baffling dream featuring two of me. Yep, double your pleasure.

It was a dream of dualities on many levels I'm sure, of which I have identified two, but I guess I should set the setting and start from the beginning.

In high school I was on a Academic Decathlon Team. Basically a team of people (nerds) study a set curriculum in several disciplines over the course of a year. So do a bunch of other students all over the country. Then they get together take tests, give speeches: prepared and impromptu, and give interviews and then are scored on a 1,000 point scale on all 10 subject areas. Oh it was GREAT fun. Anyway, our team was something of a sensation for a teensy bit of time then we got stomped at the state competition.

The dream took place in a huge pit type arena, like a basketball arena. The dream started out with me and others, I think old friends from high school, taking our seats up in the nose bleed section, accept the floor seemed to be all of 20 feet away instead of forever away. It was one of those odd disjointed dream features. So, on the floor below me was a avant-garde fusion of film and live theater depicting the drama of my academic decathlon team competing for the state title. But it wasn't a depiction at all, it was actually us. Both my now self and my then self present in the same time and space. Odd. My present dream adult self was up in the stands watching my younger high school dream self and the rest of the team competing. It was weird to be observing my self watching a younger version of myself. Me watching the watcher watching me. It was so disconcerting that I stayed awake till my alarm went off pondering the meanings of it all. It made so much sense this morning in my clear morning head. Now it's all so muddled, blurry and lost.

Damn, freakin' airhead. I've forgotten what the other layer of duality was besides there being two of me. I knew I would do that if I didn't write it down. grrrrrr.