chang|e one’s mind

i remembered the deam i had last night.  it was so weird i had to share it with the world (the world = you all who read this nonsensical blog)

so my dream starts off with me watching tv.  nothing special there.  all of a sudden, i hear colbie caillat’s “oxygen” playing from the tv.  i look and it’s an informercial! my favorite!  so why the music?  well, colbie caillat is selling lollipops!  not just any kind of lollipop though.  it’s a lollipop with the bottom part wrapped in candy.  it’s kind of hard to explain.  it’s kind of like around the bottom part of the lollipop, there’s an extra layer of stuff.  what kind of stuff?  well that’s the beauty of it, there’s not only fruit flavored stuff, but chocolate!  so here’s where it gets weird (if it isn’t already), the person on the tv holds it out on the screen, and somehow, i’m able to taste the lollipop.  i don’t know if went into the tv, or the lollipop came out of the tv.  either way, i got to taste it.  and it tasted pretty good.  i remember distinctly tasting both the lollipop and the bottom layer of chocolate i think it was on the one i ate.  and that’s when i woke up.

so what’s so interesting about this dream besides the fact that colbie caillat is selling lollipops that have nothing to do with her or her songs, or that there was actually an informercial for lollipops in the first place?   well, the interesting thing for me was that it was a very vivid dream.  i could see the colors of the lollipop, i could hear the colbie caillat song as if it were playing on my computer, i could taste and feel the lollipop.  i couldn’t really smell anything, but you get my point. not only was my dream random, it was also a treat to 4 out of 5 senses.

i found the clip from snl of the rock playing superman.  i don’t know what’s up with all the hebrew.  but the clip is still in english.

as of today i am a second year student in seminary.  i have completed one full year of courses.  i feel a little more mature, a little wiser, and a whole lot more confused all at the same time.  i’ve already read more in the past year than i have in all the previous years of my life put together.  i guess that’s what i get for going to an engineering school for undergrad.  seminary’s definitely a different way of thinking.  while i’m used to getting out my calculator in order to find the right answer, i now pull out my Bible and find that there is no answer.

it’s been fun though.  i find that i’m actually retaining a lot of the knowledge that i’ve learned, not like undergrad.  you know, i don’t remember a single thing i’ve learned in undergrad?  i find that pretty sad.  it was all cramming and forgetting.  think of all the things i’d know right now if i just studied a little better in college.

finishing my first year in seminary also makes me think about how old i’m getting.  thankfully, i hang out with a lot of people older than i am, so i never feel like i’m old, but still.  i’m realizing that i’m actually (or should be) a responsible adult.  i wonder how that’s coming along.  and i wonder what this second year of seminary will bring.