The weirdest thing happened last night. I had a hard time falling asleep even though I went to bed relatively early (11pm). When I finally fell asleep after a couple hours, I had the weirdest dream... Since I didn't write down what I dreamed about after I woke up, I cannot remember anything that I dreamed.

However, I do remember one thing about it...

Here's what happened:

It started out as a really weird dream. Suddenly, I woke up from that dream and thought to myself, "Whoah... I was dreaming...". After a while, I woke up again and realized "Whoah, I was just dreaming that I was dreaming..."

Finally, morning in the real world came around, and I physically woke up. In other words, I had a dream that I had a dream that I had a dream. It was the weirdest thing...

If you've ever seen the movie eXistenZ, then you'll know what I'm talking about. I can't believe I had a Cartesian skepticism type of dream.

Mr. Perry spoke this morning about the danger of pride.

The people I'm supporting in the world of sports went 0-2 today. First, Roger Federer lost the match in which he had the most to gain. If he had beaten Nadal today at the French Open finals, most people would have no doubts that he's the best player to ever play the game.

Later on in the day, the Cavs lost badly to the Spurs. I have confidence that Roger will bounce back and win the French Open next year, and the Cavs will bounce back the rest of this series and make Lebron legendary.

Here's something interesting:

After Nadal won the French Open for the third consecutive year today, most sports news websites had the story on the front page. I was surprised at what Sports Illustrated decided to use as their front page image about Nadal's victory:

Rafael Nadal collapsing after win

Now, you might be wondering why I found this photograph so puzzling...

Basically, I think someone carefully chose this photograph as an inside joke to photographers. If you look at it, it doesn't look like Nadal is celebrating... In fact, it looks like he's in pain or collapsing from something hitting him. While photographs of players collapsing at the moment of victory are definitely common, there's always hundreds of photographs to choose from to capture the best one. I'm not so sure this was the best photograph to use on the front page, but here is why I think they used it:

There was a famous war photographer named Robert Capa who captured many famous images through five different wars (including WWII). He was one of the founders of the internationally renown Magnum Photos.

During the Spanish Civil War, he captured a very famous photograph of a Spanish Republican soldier falling to the ground. Here's the photograph he took:

Death of a loyalist soldier, 1936

This photograph became the best known image of the Spanish civil war. When I saw Nadal's photo, I thought of this photo right away.

Now, Rafael Nadal is from Spain... I would bet that someone noticed how similar the photograph of Nadal is to the iconic photograph, realized that Nadal is also a Spaniard, and chose this specific photo for that reason.

Here are the two photographs side by side.

Photographs Side by Side

Maybe I'm wrong... It's just a guess. :-)