Have I slept through it???

I live alone. At least I thought so until I caught a glimpse of a strange, older woman who sometimes follows me around. She is very secretive and manages to stay behind me much of the time but then if I surprise her with a quick movement, there she is! I suspect she has been around awhile because my dog Sebastian has accepted her as one of our little family. I am very suspicous of the wrinkled, age spotted stranger though. I think she has hypnotic powers and makes suggestions to my psyche. I say this because about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I become unconscious on the sofa for up to an hour nearly every day. I would worry about sleeping through these last years of my life but for the fact that she is very seductive. The dreams that occur are spendid. I appear in my youthful state, athletic, strong, beautiful and filled with a sense of my own woman power. There is nothing I can't do if I want. Just don't get in my way. I run with the wolves. What joy! I awake refreshed and enthusiastic about this life I have created. Then out of the corner of my eye I catch a glimpse of that old round shouldered, gray haired, thick wasted woman with the squinty eyes. She scares the heck out of me. Where did she come from? She resembles my mom a little (mom was 90 when I last saw her). She also looks a bit like my dad especially around her mid section. Dad has been gone a long while though. Perhaps she is a ghost of my past or worse, my future. Yipes!!

I think Sebastian and I share similar dreams as he runs through his dreams with kicing feet, blinking eyes and yips. When he awakens, he takes a moment to clear his head of his youthful carefree self only to return as a deaf, stiff and visually challenged 16 yr old dog. I wonder sometimes when he appears to see something threatening and he barks loudly, if he is seeing the ghost of himself.

In the meantime, I won't be setting another plate for dinner in front of the TV. And, I will avoid mirrors...maybe she will disappear forever!!!