I’m not sure if it’s the worry about my parents, stress at work, being incredibly busy as of late, or something completely different but weird things have been happening to me lately. I’ll go to sleep and dream very random, yet realistic dreams. The thing is, when I wake up, they are so real and undreamlike it is difficult for me to know if those things really happened or if they did not. I’ve been asking the people involved in my dreams if it’s really happened or not, and I’m getting some odd looks.
Now, I have been working on dream recall. It’s the first step to experience lucid dreaming, something which has been an interest of mine for a while, i’ve simply not applied myself to it. I’m working on recall and dream recognition in tandem, and if this is it working it’s actuall rather frightening to get used to at first. I really do feel like i’m losing part of my mind.
The dreams are about work, or friends, or both and they are very real conversations, perhaps bits and pieces of my waking life mingling and conversing with my unconscious. Not much unlike the Raw Shark Texts. Whatever it is, it has my stomach in knots during the day, and somewhat excited for my dreams at night. Not because they are great, but because it’s kind of weird not knowing what’s real and what is not. I guess I’m living my real own Tyler Durden. Could I wake up as someone else? Would that be such a bad thing?
As will happen when I’m writing, I got distracted by a hockey game and completely lost the train of thought… I’ll just end it here.
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
i used to take vivid dreams i had and write them down. i’d flesh them out and turn them into some sort of story/fiction/what have you. it made for interesting pieces and helped me to remember my dreams. oftentimes i’d realize that while it seemed like i had an entire story going… when i sat down to write it out, there’d be big gaping holes. i wasnt sure if that meant i had simply forgotten chunks of my dream or if somehow in my dream state, everything just made a whole lot more sense. it’s fun. i love dreaming. it gives you a completely different perspective
28 May 2009 at 3:37 pm
Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed reading your newest post. I think you should post more frequently, you obviously have talent for blogging!
28 May 2009 at 6:41 pm