On Dreams
I often dream. I dream
lucidly, vividly, and dramatically. So I'm going to start dream journaling here
for my own record and your reading pleasure (or bewilderment, depending)
When I was maybe 3 years
old I remember telling my parents I saw something 'in my one little eye' the
night before. It was a simple dream: a man tied to a chair in an infinite
expanse. A large spotlight shone in a large circle around him; and just out of
sight, various creatures (monsters?) lurked.
Looking back, I guess it
should have been a little scary, but I don't recall it being frightening in the
least. In fact, since then I can recall only three dreams that I would call
"Nightmares". Sometimes things get a little dicey; escaping a hungry
living house, exorcising demons in the middle of battlefields, gigantic
amorphous dragon creatures mutilating and eating people. But even when things
are intense, it's never scary.
When I was around 12, I
discovered I could 'pause' my dreams. I was in a round room fighting lizard
men, and one of my friends was about to get killed. 12-year-old-me wasn't about
to have any of that tragic nonsense in his head, so I envisioned a video game
style pause menu and woke myself up. I lay in bed for a few minutes in
half-sleep, then decided I wanted to go back and try again. So I did. I don't
know how I became so lucid, but it makes things a whole load more
interesting.
Sometimes I wake myself
up to avoid something happening, sometimes I wake up mid-dream and decide to go
back to sleep to see it through, and sometimes I just go full on lucid godmode
without waking up. One time I woke up from a particularly long dream, dozed off
on accident, and got an alternate ending.
Anyway, all that to say
I have long, lucid, vivid dreams full of emotion; and I plan on recording them
here. I may or may not include a “What's going on in my life to invoke this”
section, and a “What I got from this” section. I’m not as into dream
interpretation as I used to be; but I am intent on making everything
significant. If some dream is going to be floating around in my head all day, I
may as well make something out of it.
Read and enjoy!
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