A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
One of my favourite things to do is dream. The when-you're-asleep kind of dreaming. I feel very fortunate that I dream vividly and often have extensive memory upon waking of my nocturnal adventures. They aren't always good dreams, sometimes neutral. Sometimes it's vague and foggy, sometimes there's a crystal clear universe of complexity in which I briefly dwell. Sometimes I'm lucid (and by this I mean self-aware during the dream, able to recognize that it is a dream and occasionally exercise some measure of conscious control.) I often experience recurring themes, and I often have memory of past dreams within dreams. That is, within a dream, I'll actually have memory of past dreams, especially if a recurring element is present ("wait a minute.. I've had this dream before..") and furthermore.. in my waking life I can't always perceive whether something I'm remembering is from my waking world or from a dream. You know those flashback sort of images you get when a memory is too far away for you to really remember, you just have a snapshot? (Early childhood stuff mostly.) Yeah, I'm not always sure whether those are things that actually happened to me or not. Kinda weird.
Often I find myself wishing that I could stay in dreamland for longer.. when I wake from a particularly vivid or intense dream, the first half hour or more of my mental state is what I would call "reverie", not fully awake yet, my mind feels coated by a thick film of that dream state, not fully separated from it yet. At these times all that I want is to go back there, stay there longer, hold on for just a while more though every minute it slips further away through my fingertips. Soon this state begins to deteriorate and the memory starts to fade, along with the essence and meaning, until little or no coherent plot even remains.
I often dream about specific people and the camaraderie I share with this dream person feels very real to me. I often wake feeling as though I really have shared something meaningful and special with this person (whomever it may be) and am immediately inclined to seek them out and attempt to share this with them. Is this creepy? I hope it's not, I'm always flattered when someone dreams about me. Anyway, it's always more than a little disappointing to me when I realize that this shared bonding experience was, of course, really just an illusion. Usually 1-2 hours after waking, this sensation fades and I start to feel stupid for going and posting to them on facebook as though it could actually mean anything to them.
We may never see each other, we may not have seen each other in years, we may not be more than acquaintances, but it's perfectly possible that you and I have shared deep emotional journeys together in the darkest hours of the night.
Can anyone relate to any of this?
Often I find myself wishing that I could stay in dreamland for longer.. when I wake from a particularly vivid or intense dream, the first half hour or more of my mental state is what I would call "reverie", not fully awake yet, my mind feels coated by a thick film of that dream state, not fully separated from it yet. At these times all that I want is to go back there, stay there longer, hold on for just a while more though every minute it slips further away through my fingertips. Soon this state begins to deteriorate and the memory starts to fade, along with the essence and meaning, until little or no coherent plot even remains.
I often dream about specific people and the camaraderie I share with this dream person feels very real to me. I often wake feeling as though I really have shared something meaningful and special with this person (whomever it may be) and am immediately inclined to seek them out and attempt to share this with them. Is this creepy? I hope it's not, I'm always flattered when someone dreams about me. Anyway, it's always more than a little disappointing to me when I realize that this shared bonding experience was, of course, really just an illusion. Usually 1-2 hours after waking, this sensation fades and I start to feel stupid for going and posting to them on facebook as though it could actually mean anything to them.
We may never see each other, we may not have seen each other in years, we may not be more than acquaintances, but it's perfectly possible that you and I have shared deep emotional journeys together in the darkest hours of the night.
Can anyone relate to any of this?