Stress dreams

…and exasperation at an alien invasion

Wake Lloire

Apr 04, 2026

Tiny book #94

Address/Address (written in Charlottetown, PEI at 8:30pm)

11am

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I’m going to make my tiny book later. We are finally just about to leave for PEI.

I’m writing this quickly while I make a batch of crepes for my youngest.

It’s so strange that so much could happen in a day where we barely left the house.

I’ll write about it when I’ve got actual time to sit and sort.

But I want to write about the aliens first.

I got up this morning to give my eldest his thyroid medication. Talked to my youngest who said that he’s feeling better.

…and I was exhausted so I went back to sleep.

And you know that dream state when things feel so real you don’t know you’re dreaming. I was in it

In the dream we had made it to our vacation house. But there were more people than I was expecting. And as we were entering I looked up and there was this phalanx of alien ships and they were already shooting laser beams, and I rushed everyone inside, and thought…I should film this and warn the world.

I looked at my phone and it was already full of alien symbols. So I went inside and was watching everyone rushing around and preparing for the attack…and all I could think was…I hope this is a dream (even though it didn’t feel like one) and …I do not have time for this.

I was exasperated by the end of the world.

How messed up is that?

Then I woke up. Grateful that an alien race hasn’t decided to destroy the earth.

I will have to unpack why that was my dream reaction.

I know dream me and real me are two very different things.

And now for something completely different.

Yesterday I wrote a tiny book explaining my name based on the prompt wake.

Then my friend Heather sent me her little book for the day and I cried. Because friendship is real, and being seen, and connecting with another person…it’s how my heart grows and gets through…and her book made me feel seen.

It’s the kind of seen that exists between two people.

But I want to share her book because it is a special kind of beautiful that I will want to remember forever.