It’s Tuesday. I need to come up with a topic for this column … so I take a drive.

That’s the setting for the dream I had overnight Monday into Tuesday. Dreams are a scrambled mess of what you may have experienced during the past day or days. Have you ever tried to decipher the meaning of your dreams?

My dream included a drive to the local high school (schools have been on my mind – and a lot of your minds as well – and in conversations lately). After parking in the lower parking lot and a brief visit (no recollection of my visit), I back my car out of the parking space and cause a fender bender with a pickup (I do have a bad habit of not looking long enough to see if the “coast is clear”).

I get out of my car and out of the truck jumps a teenage boy and he grabs an aluminum pipe out of the back and starts hitting me with it. I duck several times so he is just hitting my back. Then along come two other teenage boys and they stop my attacker. The rescuers inform me that my attacker is a dropout and that he shouldn’t be on school property (I am thinking that this dream attack came from watching a biography of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan over the weekend … He and Mr. T were in the first Wrestlemania event and a third wrestler entered the ring to help them).

The dream quickly switches to my return to the newspaper office. I apologize for being late (this Monday, I did have to take a few personal hours off from work) and that I will get the column done as soon as possible. Staff members tell me that it was too late to get the column done because the pages have been sent to the printer. They said they filled the column space with a photo.

That’s when I woke up.

During my waking moments, I tried to decipher the dream or think of a moral behind it. My first thought was the saying, “Don’t be uncool, stay in school.” Not really the meaning of the dream, now that I think about it.

Then I thought, “If you think you are going to miss a few hours at work (although I didn’t know on Monday that I would have to leave for a few hours), perhaps you should plan ahead and get that darn column done earlier.” Happens every week, it seems.

Have a good week and happy dreams.