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I woke up around 1am last night. Wide awake, so I turned on my laptop and went to twitter to read news and events for a while. Went back to bed after 20 or 30 minutes. I like to get up at 5:15 on work days. I don't use an alarm, but sometimes I wonder if in a way, I do: 

I usually have vivid dreams when I wake up then go back to sleep. Last night was no exception. I'll just relate two of them. In one of them I was in a strange town on a rainy night. I was leaning against an old, brick building having a smoke. In the dream I wondered if the rain was a dream because the weather the previous day was clear and warm, and the long-range forecast called for the same. It was raining very hard and there were lots of puddles in and along side the street, so I said to myself "this can not be a dream. The rain is real." 

Next thing I know I'm in a house I'm not familier with in real life, but in the dream I live there, and I sense other people live there too, but I don't see any of them. I go into a room and am immediately ganged up on by small dogs and puppies. I get down on my knees and let them climb all over me. They are all black. Most are pups, but some are old. They are all very excited. Then I wake up. I look at my clock. It is 5:15.