At about two a.m. that night, while soundly asleep, I again rolled out of my bed, but this time I remembered afterward what I'd been dreaming before I hit the floor.
I've been doing more screaming than I've been doing dreaming and I think it's time I figured it out.
Six months after graduation, I have found the job I was dreaming of, i.e. an in-house corporate communications function with regional responsibilities in Latin America for a multinational company.
"I was at IIT nearly 30 years ago, but just last week I woke up sweating in the middle of the night dreaming that I was back there sitting for one of those killer exams, " admits Sudhakar Shenoy, the CEO of IMC, a software services company in McLean, Virginia.
When I researched hundreds of organizations while preparing my book, Disciplined Dreaming, I had the pleasure of connecting with innovative leaders, at the forefront of their industries.
When I was young I always watched and was like ah, I mean the camera, the acting is so good, the directing is so good, I was always dreaming one day I will be like Martin.
Something I was dreaming about, but then when I actually touch it, it is more nightmare than a dream.
"I've been dreaming of this since I was a little child, " said the 30-year-old, who won silver in the 2004 Olympics in the road race.
And all my life I have been dreaming to be the best in what I do and my dreams came true.
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In fact, I was dreaming of a carefree game of duck-duck-goose when I awoke at the lodge to the happy clink of the coffee tray outside my door.
"I've been dreaming of something like this since the day I was born, " said sophomore right-hander Andrew Flaherty, who started for Army and took the loss.
And so, as the temperature began to rise this month, I started dreaming up recipes that would showcase the distinct personalities of different varietals.
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Symphonic but light-footed, the band's Shut Up I Am Dreaming evokes pockmarked landscapes, as colorful melodies wander down blind alleys and over broken bridges.
Sitting in Antarctica 100 years on, dreaming of Mars, I would update Scott's advice by factoring into his equation, the impact (unbeknown to him) of humans on Earth over the past century.
If I see sufficient value in the content, I may tell you what I am thinking of, dreaming of, wanting, needing, and how much I am willing to pay for that automobile, or that new software.
"I feel great but I am also dreaming of becoming the first to run under 1:41, " the 21-year-old told BBC World Service.
Yet somehow, late afternoon rolls around each day, and I'm dreaming up dinner from scratch again, one dumb chopped onion at a time.
"I grew up dreaming what it might be like to do this and how impossible it might be, " said Chang, who said he has idolized Kahan for years.
"This is what I have been dreaming of for 30 years, " he added, admitting he would take a 1-0 with a goal in the 90th minute - as long as the Swans win.
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"For the last 17 years, I've been dreaming of watching her win a professional tournament, " he said.
All these days I've been dreaming about my mom cooking for me.
If I did fall on my face, I am obviously still concussed and dreaming.
Ms. JEAN SETZFAND (Director of Financial Security, AARP): Insensitive at best, because I think very few people are dreaming about a beach vacation.
In one moment I was at home with family and friends dreaming of studying English, of becoming a schoolteacher.
"When I started, geologists were considered heretics for dreaming that there could be salt canopies with reservoir-quality rock beneath them, " says Issen, 54.
These are sins, really, because in so dreaming (and researching these fantasies on the Internet), I spend less time throwing a baseball around with my son or walking the dog around the block.
While other girls grew up dreaming of homes and children, true love and financial security, I envisioned Shepherds and Terriers, fields of happy, bounding mutts.
"I think about Titi (Henry), who's dreaming about it, " said Eto'o when asked for his favourites.
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