And I forgot to mention, I’ve recently figured out how to add a comments feature to the bottom of my posts. Much harder than you would think.
It’d be so great to get some comments from all yall. Some encouraging comments here and there would be very encouraging. Critical comments would be very… critical. Either way, I would really welcome it. Makes me feel less like a crazy person just heaving my thoughts out into space, hoping for contact.
Want a starter topic?
I wanna know what kinda dreams everyone’s been having these last couple of weeks.
Me, I’ve been having constant dreams ever since getting to Chicago. More than I ever have before. If I lie down for 8 hours, I will wake up with fleeting dream memories that I swear must’ve lasted all 8 hours, non stop. And these dreams are absolutely action packed— I’ve pretty sure I’ve stolen police cars, broken friends out of prison, robbed banks, and have been shot from close range. I feel like I’m always running from some likely metaphorical enemy, or chasing them, or confronting them, or being confronted.
When I wake up and try to remember my dreams, it’s not as much that I’ve forgotten them as it is that there’s so much for me to remember. Only a few exceptional details. Sort of like how any older person might look back on their long life and maybe remember a few things here and there, but mostly it’s all just memories that have bled together. They’ll recall all the images and memories so deeply ingrained that all they can do is summarize. “Yep. That all sure was exciting.”
But most exciting is that I have recently had my first dream experience in which I could control the world around me. It was the first time that I’ve realized that I was dreaming and that I could jump as far as I wanted to, could run as fast as I wanted to, even make others say what I wanted them to say. This only lasted a little while, until I tried to fly. I jumped off a building, looked down, and started to fall. Couldn’t do it. Then I woke up.
So, if you’re reading this please share with me a dream you’ve recently had in the comments. I would love that.
