Dreams That Stay With You

   I woke up this morning feeling pretty refreshed after what I figured must have been a relatively sound night of sleep. Shortly after hitting the road for work, however, a few disturbing "memories" popped into my mind.

   It dawned on me shortly thereafter that I had a dream last night that was largely based on fact and real personal history. However, as you might expect, there was a bit of fiction unconsciously injected to complete what is, in truth, an incomplete story. What hit me driving in was the realization that the "fiction" could have been the truth and I just didn't see the signs at the time.

   I have always been interested in dreams and their meaning and whether they really are, as some believe, a portal to incompletely documented or understood regions of the brain.

   This is not the first time I've had a powerful dream that stayed with me all day but this one really shook me.