You only have mere hours to record a good dream. Otherwise it'll be gone for good. That's my theory anyway.
Last night I dreamt..
I was competing in some sort of Grand Prix form of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (Cage Fighting to those not in the know). A Grand Prix is essentially when fighters compete in multiple matches in a small period of time - either a night or a weekend. These kind of tournaments do not allow time for injury recovery or training to adapt to the next fighter's style, it's simply the best on the day. These kind of fights don't really exist in UFC any more as it's adapted a league style of tournament but if you watch the film "Warrior" you will see what kind of competition I'm referring to.
During this tournament I was getting pretty far, despite being absolutely terrified of having to compete, knowing that despite my years of training I'm vastly inferior to the majority of professional or even amateur fighters. Hell if you walk into my class having never trained Muay Thai before, you're probably better than me.
In the smaller weight category though something extraordinary was happening - an eight year old boy was winning every match by decisive swift knock outs. That was until he faced up against a ten year old in the final. The ten year old however didn't fight him, he pulled out a childish game, one I remember from my childhood where you hold a hand over somebody's head and say a number, which was referring to the number of boyfriends the other person had. The two boys then started acting not as fighters, but quite rightly - as kids. The eight year old ran off to get a jumper because he was cold and the ten year old was declared the winner. The eight year old wasn't angry or sad to lose, kind of just happy to be a kid again.
Turned out that in the dream the whole story was part of an audiobook collection written and performed by the prodigy, despite the fact I was seeing everything very visually. I then looked on Amazon in the dream and found out that the story had rave reviews.
That's all for now folks.
