In my dream, I was gliding all around the place while sitting in what can only be described as a kind of big teacup. Just as I whisked by a young couple in their own teacup, a tiny (mouse-sized) husky dog leapt high into the air just in front of me. I swiftly reached out and caught the dog with my right hand.
I brought the
tiny dog to face me. “I just saved your
life,” I told the dog.
And I woke
exactly then.
As I lay there
in my bed, fluttering my eyes and rubbing at my forehead, I thought: “Man, I’m
glad I woke from that weird mess.” And
then I thought: “Wait. Is it 'I woke' or 'I awoke' from that weird mess? Which is
correct? Oh, hell…and what about I awakened”?
I had to roll
out of bed and fire up my google machine to determine which is the correct way,
grammatically, to emerge from a weird dream.
Most of what I
found seems to indicate that woke, awoke, and awakened can be interchangeable.
Why can’t I
just wake up and go pee on the toilet seat like most other men?
—Mitchell Hegman
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