What's real?

Ever since I started taking happy pills, I have really vivid dreams. Sometimes, I even confuse them with reality, and it's really weird/annoying. I can sympathize with schizophrenics even more now cause I know what it's like trying to differentiate reality from your mind. Lol.

My sister has been missing her favorite shirt since we went to see my cousin graduate from the Marine Corps bootcamp. It's green with a cartoon zebra on it. She thinks she left it at the hotal and we haven't been able to find it since then. I (think?) I had a dream that I was folding laundry on my bed and I came across a green shirt that was inside out, and it was the zebra shirt. I was so excited that it randomly turned up, and I left it on the bed.

When my sister got home later, I told her I found the zebra shirt, and she was so excited. I told her I would go get it, and it wasn't on the bed. I turned our room upside down looking for that darn thing, TWICE, and I never found it. If it was a dream, it was so real that I couldn't tell it was a dream.

Another instance happened this weekend.

My mom despises Rachel Ray. I kind of love her, but my mom cringes every time she comes on the Food Network. She's just so perky. Anyway, my aunt gives me her Rachel Ray magazines after she is done with them because she knows I like to cook. She gave me the newest one the other day. I apparently had a dream that my mom was looking through a Rachel Ray magazine at Walmart while we were checking out (nothing unusual about this. My mom always looks at magazines while we are in line to check out). She said to me, "I know I don't like her on TV, but I actually really like her magazines". I swear it was real!

This weekend, I was talking to my mom, and I saw a Rachel Ray magazine on my bedroom floor. I said to her, "Hey, there's the new magazine if you want to look at it". She replied with a quizzical look on her face and wrinkled her nose, "You know I don't like Rachel Ray".

I was baffled. I told her that I was with her in Walmart the other day and she told me she liked the magazines. It kind of upset me that this dream I had was so real that I think it really happened. Later my mom told me that before I told her about my dreams being so real, she didn't understand why I was so upset, and she thought I got her a magazine subscription for Christmas or something.

I think the next time I go to my doctor, I am going to ask if this is normal or not. It's kind of amazing, but mostly really annoying.