Last night i dreamed that i had a daughter. She wasn’t an infant — i think she was probably 5 or 6 or something. I am bad at ages. Old enough to walk around, dress in regular clothes and like, be able to talk intelligently. It was a vivid dream. She had dark hair and we were walking around like a mall or something. I can remember being extremely happy. It was just a time to hang out, talk, teach and just be together.
Now, in the non-dream world i have no interest in having kids. At least, not biologically. My wife and I are really freaked out on that stuff. I also have no interest in dealing with screaming all night, cleaning up shit and so forth.
But in the dream world it was really nice. It was pretty much all the best parts without any of the worst parts.
I posed a question to my coworkers a little while back. If you had an option to live in a dream but forsake reality, would you? If you could basically never wake up from the best dream you ever had would you stay asleep forever? Dreams like the one i had last night make me wonder.
Maybe one day we will adopt.