Dreams
I’m a dreamer. I often wake up from a long night and feel not at all rested because I’ve been so busy in my dreams. I sometimes feel more tired than when I went to bed because there was no repose. I’ll decorate, I’ll design, I’ll run, I’ll have conversations with people that turn out splendidly…I’ll have all the right words and they have all the right responses. I play out things in my dreams that I would like to have happen. I say things that I’m way too scared to say in real life, but I’m SO brave and awesome in my dreams. I wake up feeling very accomplished, very confident, sometimes a little confused that real life isn’t quite as straight forward as my dream life. I forget that people haven’t actually said something to me and so I have to be careful what I say. I have memories that are not real memories. They are…dreamories.
Have you ever had a dream that you remember EVERY vivid detail? You wake up and feel like you were actually doing what you dreamed? And if it’s a somewhat, shall we say, embarrassing dream, you actually hope you don’t see whomever was in your dream anytime soon…until you remember that they were not ACTUALLY there, they can’t read your thoughts and then you can wipe the stupid, sheepish grin off your face, take a deep breath and hope your cheeks will stop burning. Then there’s the times you can’t focus on anything else because you feel like you’re forgetting something very important even though it didn’t and won’t happen. Or the dream that’s just on the edge of your mind and you feel like if you think long and hard enough you will remember. It’s more of a feeling rather than a memory.
This, my friends, is my life on a fairly regular basis. Probably why I’m not a morning person. I’m in an alternate reality for the first couple hours : )
I dream often and our church teaches classes about dream interpretation. It’s a biblical model that we offer through Streams Ministries. I’m a firm believer that God speaks to us in our dreams.
Comment by Nadine — October 17, 2007 @ 10:12 am
My most vivid ones make me feel like I have really spent time with someone I haven’t seen in a while.
Comment by Oh, The Joys — October 17, 2007 @ 1:06 pm