master of dreamland

Do you ever wish you could control everything you do in your dreams? Of course you do! Everybody wants that!

Well, a company in California says they figured out how you can with a special headband that you wear on your head. Unlike the headbands I wear on my knees.

This headband keeps track of you while you are sleeping. Like your brainwaves and when you’re in REM sleep and stuff.

When you are in a deep sleep and dreaming, it creates lights and sounds that will make you aware that you are dreaming without waking you up. Then, when you know you are dreaming, you do whatever you want in your dreams!

What would you do in your dreams? There are so many choices! I mean, theoretically, we dream every night. So you could do something different EVERY SINGLE DAY.

One day you could be a princess stuck in a western movie and you have to save the town from an evil group of hedgehog outlaws.

I know. Hedgehogs in little cowboy hats is one of the most adorable things I can think of, too. I might dream of that for a few nights just for fun.

After that, you could dream that you’re a rhino space adventurer! You have a huge rocket ship that lets you go to different planets in search of magical treasures hidden by evil pirate waffles!

Then you could dream that you’re sitting on a bench drinking coffee and reading a book on a warm day in Paris!

Well, they don’t ALL have to be so crazy. It might be nice to relax for a night.

I totally want this. As long as it’s not like Inception. Because I’m pretty sure bad stuff happened in those dreams.

I’m off to check my totem.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj

buckingham presents

Sometimes I forget how cool it would be to be a part of the royal family at Buckingham Palace.

I mean, it seems like it’s kinda blah. Just being all princey or something. Having to do lots of public events and just smile a lot when I’d RATHER be sitting around reading comic books! In the Royal Comic Book Reading Room. (Which is currently a chair in my apartment.)

But maybe the events would be worth it! People just send them gifts all the time! Random gifts to say “Thank You” for being royalty!

Queen Elizabeth got a candy castle! I know! That would be so perfect for me. If you ever walked into my dreams, you have seen that I live in a candy castle with my pet unicorn, Starglitter.

Starglitter and I eat the castle every day. Then fall asleep in a sugary haze. Then wake up the next morning to a new candy castle!

My dreams are awesomer than yours. So feel free to join me in mine and get some candy.

Apparently nobody likes Prince Phillip. He got a wooden box. That’s it. I’ve never met Prince Phillip, so maybe he’s into that sort of thing. He might have a whole wooden box collection. Which would make him a…very…exciting person…

Princess Anne got some sweet stuff! She got a garden gnome AND a painting of her riding a moose!

Garden gnomes are always helpful. Especially in gardens. Perhaps they work well in wooden boxes. I don’t know.

But a painting of her riding a moose?! What would compel you to even paint that? Why a moose? Is she an actual moose-rider? Is this something people do?

And why wasn’t the garden gnome in the picture? THAT would have been a cool gift. I would like a copy of that painting for my Reading Room/Chair.

I’m off to find a gnome with a paint brush.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj

building a dream

As you know, I love to share my dreams with you. Only because it’s so random when I actually remember one. I get so excited that something actually happened in my head and I want to share that happening with the world!

Or the 3 people who will read this!

Neil Gaiman is a writer. I first heard about him because he’s written some pretty epic comic books. "Sandman" is awesome and you should read it.

He’s also written many very good books for adults and children. He’s promoting his new book "The Ocean at the End of the Lane."

I tell you all of this because he was in my dream! I think it’s because I heard him promoting his book, so he was in my head.

Onto the dream! Neil and I are walking down the street talking when he remembers that he had to go to a school to answer questions from the kids there.

We go and for some reason, I’m challenged by the teacher. Not a fight or anything. The teacher asks me what I would build to defeat certain enemies if I only had an electric drill for protection.

The first guy was just really strong. I said I would build a giant wooden dragon to eat him. (Turns out I’m really talented with a drill. At least, I am in my dreams.)

The next guy was really tiny. Like, the size of a baseball. But he drove a really fast motorcycle! My solution? Just kick him. The teacher was satisfied with that.

My FINAL enemy was a guy in some sort of robotic bug suit. He could fly around and stuff! I said I would build a wooden cage, then take him to Germany, then eat German cookies until he shared all his secrets.

Then I woke up and looked online to find out what “German cookies” might be.

Guess what! THEY MAKE HONEY COOKIES. Very popular there. I love honey and I love cookies, but I had no idea they made a honey/cookie combo!

Germany is my new favorite cookie. As long as I don’t have to drill anything for them.

I’m off to chat with Neil Gaiman.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj

hiccup wake up

I think I woke up the other night to a hiccup fit. I'm not sure, though.

See, I woke up in the middle of the night because I could not stop hiccuping. And I woke up because I was dreaming about hiccuping.

I was CONVINCED that I was only hiccuping because I was DREAMING about hiccuping.

I think that's called psychosomatic. Or psychoinsomniac.

Whatever it is, I got back to bed and told myself I didn't have the hiccups and that it was all in my head. Then I went back to sleep.

I know this is all very boring right now. BUT, here's the good part.

I got up that morning and I have NO idea if this really happened! I might have been dreaming about dreaming about hiccuping. Then, woke up from the dream within a dream and was just in one dream about waking up from psychosomniactic hiccups!

Then woke up for real having no idea where I was, what I was doing, and why I couldn't use my debit card!

Wait...maybe that was another dream. I can't keep track of all of it.

Is it a problem if you don't know what's real and what's a dream?

Not that I have that problem...I was just askin...for a friend.

I'm off to take a nap.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj