The nightmare

It's the first hour of the World Series of Poker, some guy raises from middle position and I call with 8 9 of hearts from the big blind. The flop comes 6 7 10, bells go off and there is dancing inside my head but I play it cool until the river when all our chips go into the pot and I still hold the nuts. The guy has 10 10 for a set of 10s and I turn over my winning straight only to reveal I am holding not the 8 9 of hears, but the 8 6 of hearts. I just got all my chips into the middle with a lowly pair of 6s because I misread my hand. The entire table gives me the open-mouthed looks of disbelief, some are sympathetic, a few are snickering, but the bottom line I am out of the tourney far too early because of my own stupidity. How was this happening? Who knows, but at the worst possible time I had just made the biggest possible mistake.

I had this dream a while back and I've been having variations of it ever since. The weirdest one was when I had an easy call to win a big pot but when I tried to open my mouth, the word "call" wouldn't come out. Eventually the clock ran down and they gave someone else the pot because my mouth didn't work. Then my voice came back AFTER then hand was over and I tried telling them that I tried to say call but couldn't and they all gave me the "he must be from an institution" look.

I'm not crazy.