You've just arrived at your favorite resort on day 1 of a long, restful WDW vacation. Or you're strolling the walkways of a theme park, about to get in line for one of your favorite attractions. Your family is there with you. All seems well with the world; you're happy, you're at Disney, and then you hear it. The sound blends in with the environment at first, and it takes you a few seconds to realize what's happening. Suddenly the environment around you begins to quickly fade away. That all-too-familiar sound has somehow pulled you out of your element. Everything is dark, you open your eyes and come to the bitter reality of what that sound was all along...the dreaded alarm clock!!
You try to quickly close your eyes right back, but it is all in vain. Disney is no longer there, only darkness. Reality hits you like a kick to the gut... it's Monday morning, and a loooong work week is waiting for you.
"No! This cannot be!" you think to yourself. "I was JUST at Magic Kingdom with my family an instant ago!"
Since you are still crossing the border of sleep and reality, your inner wishful thinking suggests that possibly you being in bed is the dream, and you are, in fact, still at Disney. But as you gaze across the shadows of the room and feel the bedsheets beneath you, deep down you know better. It's over. It's time to get up for the day.
This moment of dread you've just experienced only took approx 5-10 seconds at best, but it seemed painfully longer. What has happened to create such a depressing tale? You've just awakened from a Disney Dream! It is a horrible, antagonizing situation which many of us have experienced at least once in our lifetimes. To be at Disney and have it all whipped away in a flash, all because of an alarm clock or some other noise to bring us back to our reality. Yes friends, awakening from a Disney dream is indeed a bitter pill to swallow. But it has happened to me too, and I know the feeling all too well!
Yet there is hope from depressing tales such as these. For the polar opposite of awakening from a Disney Dream is actually BEING at Disney and awakening your first morning of a trip. Oh what a grand feeling indeed! After a long flight/drive the day prior, you are obviously exhausted. You awaken to the day, foggy-headed at first, assuming it is yet another day as usual. A couple of tired seconds float by...that is when it suddenly hits you! I'M AT DISNEY WORLD!! You're not in your bedroom, you're in (insert resort's name here)! You're not getting up for work, you're getting up for (insert theme park's name here)! All is well with the world once again, and this time, it is for real!
That wraps up my tribute to the horrors of waking up from a Disney Dream, and the pure joy of waking up and remembering...I'm at WDW! Share some of your stories from either side of the spectrum. I know you've experienced one or the other.
You try to quickly close your eyes right back, but it is all in vain. Disney is no longer there, only darkness. Reality hits you like a kick to the gut... it's Monday morning, and a loooong work week is waiting for you.
"No! This cannot be!" you think to yourself. "I was JUST at Magic Kingdom with my family an instant ago!"
Since you are still crossing the border of sleep and reality, your inner wishful thinking suggests that possibly you being in bed is the dream, and you are, in fact, still at Disney. But as you gaze across the shadows of the room and feel the bedsheets beneath you, deep down you know better. It's over. It's time to get up for the day.
This moment of dread you've just experienced only took approx 5-10 seconds at best, but it seemed painfully longer. What has happened to create such a depressing tale? You've just awakened from a Disney Dream! It is a horrible, antagonizing situation which many of us have experienced at least once in our lifetimes. To be at Disney and have it all whipped away in a flash, all because of an alarm clock or some other noise to bring us back to our reality. Yes friends, awakening from a Disney dream is indeed a bitter pill to swallow. But it has happened to me too, and I know the feeling all too well!
Yet there is hope from depressing tales such as these. For the polar opposite of awakening from a Disney Dream is actually BEING at Disney and awakening your first morning of a trip. Oh what a grand feeling indeed! After a long flight/drive the day prior, you are obviously exhausted. You awaken to the day, foggy-headed at first, assuming it is yet another day as usual. A couple of tired seconds float by...that is when it suddenly hits you! I'M AT DISNEY WORLD!! You're not in your bedroom, you're in (insert resort's name here)! You're not getting up for work, you're getting up for (insert theme park's name here)! All is well with the world once again, and this time, it is for real!
That wraps up my tribute to the horrors of waking up from a Disney Dream, and the pure joy of waking up and remembering...I'm at WDW! Share some of your stories from either side of the spectrum. I know you've experienced one or the other.
