When I’ve been having vivid dreams is when I best remember the songs that were playing in the background.

This morning, as I was tossing and turning, knowing it was time to get up but too comfortable to do anything but lie there, I was dreaming about being on a boat with a bunch of other people. We were somewhere tropical, and the boat ride was part of some holiday excursion, the kind of tourist thing you’ll do when you’re in Mexico, say.

In the dream I could hear R.E.M.‘s One I Love, off of Document, playing, and woke up with that song clear in my head.

R.E.M. song titles are tricky things, because Michael Stipe always resisted oversimplification. So it is “One I Love” when I always expect “This One Goes Out To”.

Their album Reckoning has the strangest song title of all: “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry).”