I’ve been dreaming a lot lately. It’s been this way for a while now. I actually look forward to the adventures I dream about.
I don’t really get it. Some places I dream about seem so recurrent to me, they seem like variations of places i know but yet different. For instance, I often dream of my vacation spot, that I’m going back there. In reality it is this lovely hotel and resort, but in my dream it is this huge beach house, right off the water. I’ve dreamt of this place quite often and it is beautiful. However I have never been to this place before (not in this life anyway). Maybe it’s my imagination,creating the ideal of what I would want for a vacation spot, but it’s funny how it always seems like the same place time and again when I dream.
Another recurrent dream is the school one. I’m either in high school or college. Usually college. I’m taking 3 or 4 classes and excelling in all but one of them. I’m usually running to my locker in search of the book for the one “bad” class and trying to get to the classroom that I can’t find, and I end up being late. At that point there is usually an exam I am not ready for. I’m always one term or one semester away from graduating and keep plugging along to get there. I’m usually wandering the halls and feeling nostalgic. A lot of the times the school looks like my high school, only bigger. Parts of the dream cause alarm, but it’s almost like I’m used to dreaming this now.
I have a lot of dreams by the water, but different bodies of water. A lot of the time I am by the ocean or a large lake. I often dream of walking across a long narrow bridge that is surrounded only by water for as far as the eye can see. It is too narrow for cars to enter, so I cross by foot. I often give up and not complete my journey because it doesn’t seem to end. It just takes me out, over the ocean, indefinitely. There’s got to be some sort of psychological meaning behind that one…
I’ve had dreams with romantic dates with a few different fellows I wouldn’t mind dating in reality. They are always these sweet, romantic courtships in my dreams. That must be a dream, because it certainly doesn’t seem to happen in my reality… I’ve also dreamed of a few dearly departed souls that were once a part of my life but are no longer here. There is a certain comfort in seeing someone who isn’t here anymore, even if it is just for a moment in a dream.
I do have the occasional bad dream about my job, the scary part is that some “nightmare” situations I have had in my sleep have come pretty close to happening at my job for real in recent times. Gah…
So those are some examples of my “other life”, the one I dream about, the one I live in my sleep. Sometimes it seems more interesting and appealing than my reality. Sometimes I wonder if we enter into an alternative universe when we sleep, one we may fit better into than our own lives, one that keeps us sane for when we wake up and face another day.
Or maybe I’m just eating too much crap right before bedtime…
