For the past few weeks, I’ve been having near-nightly nightmares about Mr. W. I forget the dreams within an hour of so of waking up, but I know that I’m furious at him in all of them. Sometimes things happen that aren’t necessarily the fault of Dream W, but the situation it places me in the nightmare sends me reeling, making me self-analyze, even in my unconscious state, whether I’m overreacting or unreasonable. The pattern upon waking, of course, is the slow dawning realization that Dream W situations would not happen in real life as the real life Mr. W does not have the asshole behavior that Dream W exhibits. I’m not sure whether these dreams are my subconscious acting out my worst relationship fears, or maybe putting Mr. W’s face on behaviors of past assholes I’d been involved with. 2 nightmares ago, I’d remembered the dream long enough to tell Mr. W about it in the morning. As I relived the details, I wondered aloud why Dream Cindy didn’t just dump Dream W as I feel she definitely should have. So in the last dream I had, Dream Cindy did dump Dream W. Here’s me IMing Mr. W about it:

Cindy: OOH, I had another nightmare about you this morning!!
I was SO MAD when I woke up.
I was so pissed in the dream I actually DID dump you this time.
You bought this game on some game console that you kept playing, but you never let me play.
Mr. W: Awe I must be an asshole in your dreams
I want you to play
Cindy: so I finally made a big point of sitting in the chair you always sit in to play the game, because the controller is right there, and you simply moved the controller and played from another position.
At first I was just like, “Jerk won’t share his turn.” And THEN I realized “WAIT a minute, there are TWO DAMN CONTROLLERS. He could totally let me play AND play himself at the same time! But he just WON’T! He DELIBERATELY plays in single mode!”
And I was SO mad that I got up and said, “You know what? That’s IT, it’s OVER!” and you seemed perfectly content to let me leave but you STILL wouldn’t let me play.
AAAAAARRRRHGGGGHHHHH!!
Mr. W: Wanna come over and play xbox tonight?
Cindy: HAHAHA!!!
Ya know…after that dream, I kinda do.
Mr. W: Yaaaeeh!

I swear, not all my dream infuriations are over such stupid things.