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Ha. I had a dream that I was a detective (again??) and found a body, which for some reason cued me to go over the border (through a hole that I had to lie down and shimmy through to manage) and meet up with some ancient Central American tribe. And also my cousin. Later, I was in my own house again, and it dawned on my to check my teeth. They were wobbly, so I concluded that I was in a dream! Unfortunately, my sadistic brain, which seems bent on keeping me from lucidity, put me in (to yet again quote Princess Bride) "a dweam wiffin a dweammm" so I (correctly) concluded that the "subdream" was a dream but thought (incorrectly) that the main dream was reality. Hmph.

I found a neat function on my phone: the ability to listen to music through the normal speaker rather than the outside speaker or headphones. This brings up the amusing mental picture of sitting in a bus or some such and raising one's phone to the ear just to listen to music. It would sort of be like the opposite of those awful bluetooth headsets, you know the ones that you can never see at first so you always think the person energetically saying "Hello!" is speaking to you, respond and make a dolt of yourself? But in this case, it would look like you're making a call, but you wouldn't actually be doing so. After a while people might start to wonder why you're sitting there on the phone without speaking a word... "Hey, have you noticed that dude's been on the phone for a couple minutes now without saying anything?" "Whoa, you're right! How weird! Maybe the guy he's talking to is really mad at him and he's waiting for him to finish yelling." "Maybe it's his girlfriend!" (pause while they watch) "How long d'ya think he won't talk?" "What if he hangs up without saying anything?" "Is he checking his voicemail?" "No, he hasn't pushed any buttons either..." (another pause) "He just smiled -- must not be someone yelling at him." "What if he likes being yelled at?" (laughs)...

Everyone wins. The "caller" gets to listen to his music while simultaneously befuddling his neighbors, AND they win because he's not briskly talking at "cell phone volume" (ugh) or blasting his music out of the outer speaker.

Reality check. Supposedly one of the reasons public phone conversations are so hard to ignore is because our brains automatically sense that there's only half a conversation going on, and feel like they might need to complete it.