All my dreams in the last year have been real life situations for some reason. In the past, they have always been really tripped out. There's got to be some underlying significance to that fact, but I can't come up with any reasonable explanation. For example, my dream this morning started with me in a typical working environment for some company selling products. I was sitting at a long table in a room with several other long tables and about 40 people (workers and customers). An African-American woman holding the hand of an eight year old girl was talking to me about a product she might be interested in. At some point in the conversation she had decided that she wasn't interested. Her eight year old daughter looked at me with a very sad face because she wanted it. (I have no idea what the product was) Anyway, for some reason the sad child's face made me chuckle and say to her "You know, if you whine and cry enough she may just buy it." At that, the child smiled at me. The woman was right there still holding the childs hand, but was involved with other thought processes. The comment by me was meant to be heard by both of them, but apparently she missed it and not being concerned because it really wasn't that funny anyway I went back to working on whatever I was working on before the woman approached me. Shortly after that, I heard the woman scream at her kid to shut up or she'd spank her right here in front of everybody. The little girl started bawling and pointed at me saying, "that man told me to!" The mother glanced in my direction and so I thought maybe I'd save the kid a spanking by saying, "yes ma'am, I did say that but..." I was going to say that I meant the comment to be heard by her as well, but she cut me off saying, "You don't use my kid to sell me a product!" The entire room of people were staring at me. An elderly woman who was some really high up person in the company decided to approach me speaking very loudly. "Listen, you don't ever..." I cut her off. "Look, when I said that, I was just thinking that..." The old woman cut me off. "No! You don't treat a customer..." She was speaking even louder and everyone was watching. At this point I kind of lost it and cut her off with an extremely loud, "HEY! Get out of my face, lady!" At this there was a deep shocked breath from everyone in the room. Not only had I tried to use a child to sell a product, now I'd screamed and upset an old lady. I looked at my boss waiting for the enevitable "You're fired!" but instead she said, "why don't you go grab a cup of coffee, Ben", which was probably just a nice way of saying, "You're fired!" I said, "Thank you. I'd like that about now." Then I woke up. Has my mind lost all creativity?... I don't know. I really preferred the tripped out dreams more. When are they coming back?