Jolt

I woke up this morning as the result of a dream. It wasn’t a bad dream, but the ending shocked me into wakefulness.
There had been an auto accident and a young man had died and “someone” in the dream made the comment:
“He was just another solider”
The anger, the rise in blood pressure and adrenaline from my reaction to that was enough to pop my eyes open, wide awake.
What causes dreams is a real mystery. Maybe it and my response has something to do with reading “The Rainmaker”, maybe has something to do with New Orleans. Who knows?