Dreams, nightmares, fantasies. They've been the constant companion of my resting eyes ever since I can remember. Flashes of fairy tales, castles and flying; followed by a pressing need to accomplish some impossible mission. Triumph, failure...it's all the same in dream world. You wake up unchanged, at least outwardly. Many nights I woke up gasping for air, trying desperately to make out what was real and what was conjured up by my never resting mind. Dreams are short lived, only creating images playing across the back of your eye lids until they flutter open to drink in the light of day. Dreams are a passing fabrication of the mind, that creates a false sense of reality and are written off as bad digestion. But what is reality? Where we live? What we think? Our actions and choices? What if someone spent more time dreaming than they did awake? What if, we deliberately make decisions when we are sleeping? Even if the settings and people are just concoctions of the mind, are the choices we make when we are sleeping a reality of our character? I'm not talking about the weird situations that don't make sense, but the kind of scenarios that really test our morals. In dreams we often times have to make choices, what decisions do you make? I've found that my choices almost always reflect my waking attributes; from my fears to my protective instincts to my passion. For good, better and worse; dream me is me.
Some dreams have weird ways of twisting themselves to not making any sense. Sometimes children dream of talking sharks, or flying; things that are impossible when awake. But what if some of the dreams were actually an event taking place in another part of the world. What if the weird parts of your dreams that connected you to events were just your dreaming mind connecting you to real events that were actually taking place? What if the places in your dreams are real. I've visited the same house more than once in a dream, even though I've never laid my alert, open eyes on the structure. An even more thought provoking question, what if the people in your dreams are real. What if the make believe people in your dreams are actually real people that are dreaming the same dream as you and they think that you are some result of eating too much sugar before going to bed? What if dreams are real? Not every part of them, but at least main events? Mine are. It took me years to realize it. Years of seeing people's faces I've never met engraved on my mind, years of entering homes that were so familiar yet I had never laid eyes on. Finally, I put everything together; that I know my dreams are real. Unfortunately, now the government also knows.
