December 28, 2008

Dreams

Sometimes I wake up from a long nights' rest and get back to the reality of life. From the fantasy world with Harry Potter with purple and green globs of aliens, to the senses felt from a hug or the capturing of a painting through the eyes of the dreaming.

Now a lot of people say that they do not remember their dreams and that the last time they remembered a dream was when something so insignificant happened that they just brushed it off.
But my dreams feel very different to me. Some nights, I can have more then one dream. For instance last night, with one dreaming about fighting in a boxing match to then move onto Harry Potter playing a game with caves and trolls and wild adventures.

From the beginning to the end, dreams are never the same. Sure you can try to replay a dream in your head again and again but when the subconscious takes over, there is no control of the imagination.

And to then remember the dream like it had just played out in your head will never be the same. Try this: the next time you had a dream that you can remember from beginning to end, try telling someone that dream. The implications of describing the smells and colours and the exuberant amount of detail would bore the person to death. There is never a moment when you could describe your dream as detailed as how your mind had it played out. Very disappointing. Whenever I try and explain my dreams, it always turns out that the other person trying to picture what was going on and trying to follow all that I am saying at rapid speed gets a look on their face as if they were meeting someone from the mental ward saying that I saw flying pigs. ( That might be much easier to explain)

But the worst of all, is when you are enjoying a lovely piece of imagination and you wait up Just before the ending. Or telling yourself that you Will remember this dream because it was a very good one to try and tell people. Where the Really cute guy was going to confess his undying love for you or when the cashier at the gas station tells you how much money you just won. So for now I tell you all, to dream on and dream big because whatever life throws at you, cannot hurt you if it is only in your dreams!

1 comment:

Marni said...

this is a very lovely explanation of a common experience for so many people.
the ones i like the best are when i wake up laughing. :)))