A good friend of mine had a dream last night. He said Mary & I were in it… and that the three of us were running around, buying old cars, fixing them up… and such. I had Farah Fawcett hair. Mary… a version of Tammy Wynette. Any my friend Justin… well….. let’s give a nod to Barry Manilow on that one.

Which brings me to this…. “The average person who lives to be 75 will have spent six years dreaming.”

As the Sandman would have it….. I dream a lot.   A big WAY lot. In fact, I will probably spend 8 years dreaming by the time I am 75. I just know it.

Dreaming is, I think, just an extension of our conscious energy. I a subconscious way.  Kind of like going to the IMAX Theater… by mistake.

I like to think about all the possibilities of energy in our universe.  For instance. “The Sun takes 220 million years to orbit the galaxy, a journey it has made 20 times so far. ” That’s a lot of traveling of a lot of energy.  That’s a whole lotta sun shinin’ down on me….

But energy can be very big, or very small. “Plato thought that the smallest particles of matter were tiny right-angled triangles.”

Now that’s funny to me. I thought the same exact thing.  Yep.  Me and my boy Plato.  (Sidebar:  I thought his name was Playdough when I was little.   Playdough and Soccer Tees.)

Speaking of small right-sided shapes…. “Wombats have cubic feces.”  This may have had something to do with why Plato thought the way he did about small particles.

You wouldn’t think by looking at a wombat, that they would have square poop. But they do. Once again, you just can’t judge a book by its cover…. For instance….. “An orange is a berry but a strawberry isn’t.” How about them apples?   And I think Wombats eat all three.

This next factoid made me sad. I’ve heard of a scaredy cat… but this takes the cheese. “The common shrew protects itself from predators by dying of fright.” Scared to death.  Counter-intuitive, don’t you think?

And. And. And. And….. speaking of counter-intuitive….. “Summer on Neptune lasts for 40 years, but the temperature is minus 328°F.”

I am thinking….. This must be summer. In Neptune. Because it sure ain’t the land of oranges, sunshine, and Farah Fawcett.  That sounds more like….Southern California.  ….in my opinion….

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.  – Plato