mundane (adj.): characterized by human affairs, concerns, and activities that are often practical, immediate, transitory, and ordinary.  From Old French mondain, from Latin mundus, world

I’ve been told that everyone dreams, every night, without fail, and that the sensation of dreamless sleep is merely the dreamer not remembering any of his or her dreams upon awakening.  Maybe this is true, but I don’t know if I buy it — how does some egghead know what I do or don’t conjure up in my sleep if I have no recollection of it?  I can only vouch for what I perceive on this front, which is this: I rarely dream, and if I do, said dreams are either highly dramatic (very uncommon) or totally boring (the norm).

Take last night, for instance.  I had a dream that I went out to the street to take my car somewhere, and the whole row of cars along the sidewalk had parking tickets on them.  However, my car was nowhere to be seen.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the most excitement my subconscious has had in weeks: I dreamed that my car had been towed.  I spent the next twenty minutes of dream time trying to figure out where my car had been towed to, how I was going to get there, and how I was going to get it out of the impound lot in time to load the band’s gear out of the practice space.  Then I realized, in a state of anxiety and distress, that this was all a dream, and I could forget about the stupid car.  And thus ends my dream for the month.  Pathetic.