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That's interesting. I don't usually put too much stock in dreams either...even though I dream nearly every night. When my real life was very very stressful I'd have awful dreams - like my mom or one of my kids died - very real, wake up sobbing hysterically - and get up to make sure my kids were ok, or call my mom first thing in the morning just to make sure everything was ok.
Or when I felt I didn't know where my life was headed I'd have dreams about driving on a bridge that went into the clouds or into the ocean...
So on some level I felt the dreams indicated a level of stress - even though they didn't really have any basis in reality.
Maybe your dream was the tequila and nothing more. Alcohol can disrupt sleep patterns...
I hope you tell Michelle about the dream...sometimes talking about it to the person involved can help put it into perspective...just a dream...
Hope you feel better today 
kim
not really anonymous...
Thanks, Kim. You're probably right about the stress. That's actually the subject of the post I'm in the middle of writing right now. That's a big part of my absence from blogging...well that and Twitter...LOL.
But this just hit me hard. I know there's absolutely nothing to it. Just something that, like I said, sorta took my knees out from under me.
And yep, Michelle knows. She came out to see why I was up so early just as I was finishing the post. I read it to her and we talked about it.
I do feel better now. More fascinated about it than shaken. weird thing, dreams...
Hope all is well with you, my friend.
I truly believe that dreams are just the manifestation of our hopes and fears and that tequila (or whatev) is the thing that wakes us up. We all dream many dreams a night but we don't remember them unless we wake up, even slightly (at least according to the "dream books" I've read). So, tequila doesn't make us dream, it just upsets our system enough that it wakes us up (or pizza or whatever it is that doesn't quite agree with us---I hate to awaken during the night so I pretty much avoid anything that might cause me to do so). What impresses me about this post is how well it conveys your emotions. For someone who was as upset as you *clearly* were when you wrote this, it is amazingly well written. Meanwhile, what a love letter! Most men just aren't so willing to put it all out there for their wives to see.
Heidz - I've read the same thing about the frequency of dreams; I'm just not sure I like the idea that I may be actually having nightmares every night without realizing it! 
And thank you so much for your kind words, and also for still being out there checking in on me. I need to return the favor.
Hey, when you write a post, it comes up on my dashboard and I read it. Don't feel like you have to read me. As my brother, the only son amongst seven daughters, often says "when you're the only guy out there, you get a free pass".
AJ.... A dream like that would scare the crap outta me! The closest to anything like it was a dream I had a few years back that my baby brother died in some horrible accident. Totally unfounded, but it hit me really hard because it felt so real, and we're super-close. It's the only time in my life I've ever woken up in tears.
That dream reminds me of getting a massage. I think I'm a generally relaxed, easy going person. Then I lie on the table,and the therapist works on a part of my back. Only then I realize, "Oh, I didn't know I was tense there and there and there..." I'm always surprised.
I read your dream as an underlying fear you have. It touched on a tense and sensitive part of your life, just like the therapist touching a tense muscle.
Or maybe it was brought on by that crazy dinner.
RA - I do think that somehow these kinds of dreams are influenced by fears that may be more deep-seeded than rational; kinda like worse-case scenario kind of stuff.
There may have been a time when I may have had reason to be concerned Michelle would leave me, but those days, thankfully are long since passed. Nonetheless that doesn't free me completely about thinking 'what if.' I think that's something we're all subject to.
Nice to hear from ya, sis! Hope all is well.
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Michelle - As I mentioned above, I think there's some credence in the underlying fear idea, but I really don't think it's at all conscious. However I DO know that I consciously ponder how lucky I am and how lost I would be without my wife. She's a keeper, that one...
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