One of the advantages of age: I recognize those dreams almost as soon as my consciousness gets up to 75% or so. One of the disadvantages: That’s twice per night!
For those of us over 50, I learned something that stopped me getting up like this every 90 min or so throughout the night: wear knee-high support stockings during the day. Helps the circulation so you don’t accumulate fluid in your legs, which is easier for your body to process when you’re lying horizontal all night. Not recommended for those with hypertension though.
I’m way over 50, and I recommend walking at least a mile a day, and two miles would be better. It is relaxing for everybody, but much more so for the hypertensive. It improves the circulation, clears the lungs, and improves your mood. As for the other, my doctor prescribed Tamsulosin, and it works very well.
Fun fact. When I was a young man, old men who leaked or seeped wore condoms to keep dry. The drugstore was the only place to buy condoms. I bought them for a couple of old men who were too embarrassed to buy them.
I’ll have dreams that start of very normal, like in a store or something, and I’ll start looking for the rest room. When I find it, it’s either broken or so filthy I don’t want to use it, or something — and THAT’S when I wake up! (so far!)
Water dreams are definitely your unconscious brain’s attempt to communicate. I honestly don’t know what those “dropping feathers in a vacuum” dreams mean but I will keep asking. :)
Yes, the nightmare calling. Who hasn’t had one of those?
Even though we are in the over-fifty crowd (by a couple of decades), exercise seems to keep the nocturnal visits to a minimum. We use walking, running, dancing, sit-ups, stretching, tumbling, push-ups, leg lifts, hand-stands, a stand-up desk, etc, to keep things working. It all seems to help.
My doctor prescribed me a little (Not blue but similar in function) pill that cut that problem down to once or twice a night at most. Also has more fun side effects for one my age. Best of all, insurance covers it!
BE THIS GUY about 3 years ago
Hope he gets there before he needs fresh pair of pajamas.
codycab about 3 years ago
Nature sure calls, doesn’t it?
LiamG.P about 3 years ago
First panel was IT.
rentier about 3 years ago
Water, water, water, whereever you look!That’s too much water!
Bilan about 3 years ago
Maybe this will be a lesson to stop calling Mom for a glass of water in the middle of the night.
artsyguy65 about 3 years ago
Whew! Good thing he wasn’t dreaming about giant mudslides…
Say What? Premium Member about 3 years ago
Even the monster hiding under the bed is powerless against the call of nature.
Concretionist about 3 years ago
One of the advantages of age: I recognize those dreams almost as soon as my consciousness gets up to 75% or so. One of the disadvantages: That’s twice per night!
rklynch about 3 years ago
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go…..
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 3 years ago
Will our hero be able to arrive in time?
LeeCox about 3 years ago
I just hate it when that happens, don’t you?
orinoco womble about 3 years ago
For those of us over 50, I learned something that stopped me getting up like this every 90 min or so throughout the night: wear knee-high support stockings during the day. Helps the circulation so you don’t accumulate fluid in your legs, which is easier for your body to process when you’re lying horizontal all night. Not recommended for those with hypertension though.
JeanMeslier about 3 years ago
Welcome to oldagehood.
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 3 years ago
I’m way over 50, and I recommend walking at least a mile a day, and two miles would be better. It is relaxing for everybody, but much more so for the hypertensive. It improves the circulation, clears the lungs, and improves your mood. As for the other, my doctor prescribed Tamsulosin, and it works very well.
Temnospondyl - I have my father's eyes... about 3 years ago
Around 2:00am every night…
JeanMeslier about 3 years ago
Fun fact. When I was a young man, old men who leaked or seeped wore condoms to keep dry. The drugstore was the only place to buy condoms. I bought them for a couple of old men who were too embarrassed to buy them.
in-dubio-pro-rainbow about 3 years ago
This is something Hobbes doesn’t have to struggle with….
azrael2000 about 3 years ago
I wish more calvin and hobbes were coming out. They were the sublime example of real childhood.
nyscotsman1 about 3 years ago
What youth and old age share in common!
jagedlo about 3 years ago
I don’t hear the call of nature, I hear the YELL of nature!
Auntie Socialist about 3 years ago
By the third panel from the end I had The Sorcerer’s Apprentice playing in the background in my head
RobinHood about 3 years ago
Did this strip 8nspire those Calvin peeing decals?
Redd Panda about 3 years ago
Haven’t we all had this one?
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Okay. I’m pathetic. Now I have to pee.
morningglory73 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Good lad.
donut reply about 3 years ago
I have dreams similar to that. I need to go, I’m in a public building and all the toilets and urinals’ are broken.
uniquename about 3 years ago
Calvin has an old man dream!
Jimmyk939 about 3 years ago
Throw in a falling dream and watch what happens.
cor_en_fa about 3 years ago
I am nearly 70, and can still make it through the night. i bring that fact up to my golf buddies, who are several years younger, as a point of pride.
PuppyPapa about 3 years ago
I’ll have dreams that start of very normal, like in a store or something, and I’ll start looking for the rest room. When I find it, it’s either broken or so filthy I don’t want to use it, or something — and THAT’S when I wake up! (so far!)
Gandalf about 3 years ago
Poor Calvin…. I hope he made it, or Hobbes will not be a happy tiger!
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
Water dreams are definitely your unconscious brain’s attempt to communicate. I honestly don’t know what those “dropping feathers in a vacuum” dreams mean but I will keep asking. :)
flagmichael about 3 years ago
The worst dreams are the ones where you have found the bathroom. Sweet relief – for a moment.
T&J Fan about 3 years ago
Nightmare: Ends
You: SWEET VICTORY
ForrestOverin about 3 years ago
When you gotta go…
BiggerNate91 about 3 years ago
This happens a lot to me. The only difference is that something else comes out.
DCBakerEsq about 3 years ago
Been there.
jski14 about 3 years ago
Just wait until you get older, little buddy, and it happens half a dozen times a night.
donwestonmysteries about 3 years ago
Shades of MM in Fantasia. Wonder if he had to go to the bathroom when it was all over.
Jogger2 about 3 years ago
Except for panels with the firetruck, firefighter, and the last 2 panels, this reminds me of The Moldau by Bedřich Smetana.
WCraft Premium Member about 3 years ago
Beats the heck out of dreaming that you’re standing in front of a urinal and actually doing it…
Neat '33 about 3 years ago
Um; Ever been stuck in traffic that has not moved in 5-10 minutes, and you have the “runs”?
rstove428 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I had a friend in his eighties who would visit and, without fail, would need to urinate two hours in. We called it “The Wallyclock".
Lydushka about 3 years ago
Imagine this while camping!
jmcenanly about 3 years ago
They had a similar situation at Little Nemo this morning.
Flower Girl about 3 years ago
Yes, the nightmare calling. Who hasn’t had one of those?
Even though we are in the over-fifty crowd (by a couple of decades), exercise seems to keep the nocturnal visits to a minimum. We use walking, running, dancing, sit-ups, stretching, tumbling, push-ups, leg lifts, hand-stands, a stand-up desk, etc, to keep things working. It all seems to help.
kab2rb about 3 years ago
Oh that can be my dream, then wake up and have to go.
JesseLouisMartinez about 3 years ago
Was that a wet dream?
tinstar about 3 years ago
Number 1 on the best seller list…“when you gotta go, you gotta go,” by U.P. Nightly.
ChrisTrey about 3 years ago
My doctor prescribed me a little (Not blue but similar in function) pill that cut that problem down to once or twice a night at most. Also has more fun side effects for one my age. Best of all, insurance covers it!
Will_Scarlet about 3 years ago
GO! GO! GO! WE’RE NUMBER 1!Gimme a ‘P!’
DanWolfie about 3 years ago
Here’s my sound effect track for that strip… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nC162MFo7k
Stephen Gilberg about 3 years ago
Oddly enough, sometimes I pee in a dream and not in reality at the same time.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 3 years ago
How much water did you drink before bed, kid?
Fuzzy Kombu about 3 years ago
Gosh, that’s funny — I had that dream last night. And I’m ’way, ’way older than Calvin.
reye46 about 3 years ago
Wait til he’s in his 60’s.
Ukko wilko about 3 years ago
If I dream about needing to go, it’s rooted in reality… I wake up and go.
montylc2001 about 3 years ago
Here lately Ive had dreams where I went to the bathroom, started my business…..then woke up before it went too far. Sign of getting old, I guess.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 3 years ago
We’ve all been there.
Enoi about 3 years ago
Now I have to go.