Known Dreams

This morning I woke up at 9:30 to answer the phone. Then I 'kinda' went back to sleep. Or did I? It was an in-between stage for sure. I was half-awake. The 'dream' was set in Beijing, China. I knew what I was seeing wasn't real. In fact, it was somewhat hard to maintain the dream. If things started getting blurry, I had to concentrate and the street signs would get clear again (but I could tell if I had concentrated TOO hard I would have woken up). I figured the funniest thing to do in this state would be to read the street signs and see if they made sense (because I've always wondered how detail-accurate dreams are). But alas, they were all written in Chinese characters. Go figure! Hey, I wonder if they were REAL Chinese characters.