Man Has That Weird Dream Again Where He Runs Marathon Without Incident on Scheduled Date and Everything Is Fine
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A local runner dreamed last night that he had signed up to run a marathon, showed up for the race on the scheduled date and time, and then completed the run as planned, Dumb Runner has learned.
“Oh, man, I had that weird dream again,” Michael Stipe, 36, told his husband upon waking. “The marathon one.”
In the dream, said Stipe, thousands of runners converge on a large city—some driving, some traveling long distances via packed airplanes—and spend a day or two freely mixing, strolling through the race expo, crowding restaurants, shaking hands, hugging, and touching things.
On race day, he said, those same runners jam shoulder to shoulder into corrals and then run 26.2 miles, coughing, spitting, and blowing snot rockets along the way, periodically reaching out to high-five a spectator with bare hands.
His own race goes well in the dream, Stipe added.
“I just show up, run, finish, and get my medal, with everyone else,” he said. “Like it’s no big deal.”
“So bizarre.”
Stipe couldn’t explain the surreal dream, except to point to the coronavirus pandemic, or, as he put it, “these strange times we’re living in.” He also stressed that the dream, while jarring, isn’t exactly unpleasant.
“At the end (of the dream), I shower, change, and nap, then meet friends for a burger and beers at a local brew pub, all sitting together in a booth,” he said. “Can you imagine?”
