"Thank you and Have a Nice Day..."

Dr. Sexson asked us to blog about our own experiences with the 20 minute lifetime. I thought about a moment stretching out into eternity for a single person while simultaneously others experience that same time period as a matter of mere minutes or even seconds. I thought of this in relation to dreams. We often experience entire lifetimes in dreams that science dictates to last only a few minutes. The worst example of this occurence for me is when I, inexplicably, dream an entire workday, only to have to wake up and go to work anyway. I will literally, or so I think, have breakfast, drive my car to work, then check people out. I will have entire conversations with coworkers and friends. I will interact with rude customers, all of whom are fictitious and exist entirely in my subconscious. Suddenly, a single sound will invade this "reality". Things shift, become distorted. Finally, it dawns on me, this sickening realization: "That god-awful noise is my alarm.....and this is a dream". Even in my dreams I cannot escape the 20 minute lifetime, and in horrifying similarity to the movie Groundhog Day, in my waking reality, I repeat the same day, with the same people, again.