Dream, Dream, Dream

 

Don and Phil Everly—
The Everly Brothers

It was almost exactly 63 years ago (I was in 8th grade) when the Everly Brothers released "All I Have to Do Is Dream"--a song that featured some lines that could tell you more than any other thing that the song was not of recent generations: 

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz,
I'm dreamin' my life away.

Gee whiz? I haven't heard that lately! (Link to song.)

I'm thinking about this song today because I had a weird one last night--a dream, that is. It was one of my I-am-a-teacher dreams--but not much like any of the other hundreds (thousands?) I've had before.

In this one, I woke up late, hopped in the car, and hurried to school. It was not a building I recognized, but I saw some old Harmon School colleagues. I ran inside, and it was not till then that I realized I had not dressed in my "teacher clothes"; instead, I was still in my shorty summer pj's. Light blue and very attractive on me, I must say.

As I hurried down the hall, no one noticed me (whew), but then I saw it was an hour earlier than I'd thought. (But what were all those kids and teachers doing there?)

So I sprinted back out to the car, headed home, dressed, and ... woke up. Relieved ... very relieved.

Now, I will not psychoanalyze myself--nor permit anyone else to do so. It was just a dream, right? Didn't mean anything.

I'm just glad that it wasn't real--that no one noticed me (however that happened). But, lying in bed late last night, I felt that song from Hiram School days surge back into my head--especially that line from the Chorus: "I'm dreamin' my life away."

So it seems.

*Don (1937-)  and Phil (1939-2014) Everly.