I forgot most of this on the way to the computer and only dredged it up in conversation this afternoon. So I stood at the computer at 3:30 going, "Why am I here? What am I doing here?" I went back to bed and to sleep, but I'm a little tired and also bemused with my brain for that one.
This is up there with the "I must have my contacts still in, because I can see in my dreams, and I'm not supposed to be able to see when I'm sleeping" belief for weird stuff I believe when I'm sleeping. Do you believe anything odd when you're sleeping? Either in the context of dreams themselves or stuff that hangs around into your earliest waking moments?
I also believe that all high schools are St. Paul's Highland Park High School, when I'm sleeping. Don't ask me why. Other high schools with strong distinguishing features -- my own, for example -- transmute into Highland Park whenever my dreams require a high school to appear. I have never been inside the building, never done more than drive past it. It was extremely confusing to discover that I was dreaming Highland Park and not some Platonic or amalgamated mental high school.
We have a pulmonologist to call for