The Letdown (sounds like the title of an American Comedy starring Seth Rogen...it's not though...i don't think)

Here's what i find slightly frustrating…

You go to see a film at your local cinema complex, great.  You come out of the film and realise that the cinema complex also has an amusement/games section so you take a little wander round there.  They have games machines of all varieties and then you notice some coin machines; you know the ones where you put in a pound coin and try to get it to push lots more pound coins off the edge of the ledge so that ideally, you end up with loads?  One of those.  And then next to it there's one that's similar, but instead of real coins, it uses chocolate coins, haha, awesome!  Anyway, you go for the real coin based one because firstly you don't have any chocolate coins to put in the other one and secondly, even if you win lots more chocolate coins, you don't really need any more chocolate right now…

So you start to put some pound coins in the machine and hey, what do you know, on the first go you get ten pound coins back…awesome!  You try it again, another ten pound coins, sweeeet!  

You go downstairs with your winnings, to the ground floor of the cinema complex.  You notice that there is randomly (yet somehow conveniently) a lending library on the ground floor.  It seems slightly out of place but you take a look anyway and to your pleasant surprise, they are selling off second hand CDs and DVDs, for a mere £1.79 each!  This is your lucky day, what with the £20 you just won upstairs, you could buy at least, well, ten items!

Looking through the CDs you quickly find 10 that you've wanted for ages but could never seem to find anywhere else, how exciting!  The DVDs weren't of such a high quality selection so you just leave those.  Then something a little strange happens…you start to feel as if this is almost too good to be true, as if as great as it all is, there is a bizarre feeling about the whole thing.  Then something very weird happens; you turn around to see your Dad standing there and he says 'hey, do you know where your Dad is?'….'errr, what?!', you think.  As the seconds go by, you begin to recognise this familiar feeling, and then it hits you…'ooh nooooo, i'm in a flippin' dream!!'

Yeah, so i find that slightly frustrating.  It's like you try so hard to keep the stuff that you had in your dream but it just…disappears!  And that's what i call 'The Letdown'.

On the plus side, another part of my dream did include a sequence in which i found myself on Top of the Pops with David Bowie, performing 'Let's Dance', pulling off some sweeeeet dance moves.  It may or may not be worth mentioning that i was also dressed up as a bear.  

Well, there's a little insight into the workings (?) of my mind.  I've heard it said that we only use 10% of our brains…i have a theory that i might be using at least some of the other 90% while i'm asleep.

Thanks for reading :-)

Sam