From Here to There

I’ve been having the most intense, realistic dreams over the past few months. They’re not frightening in the least (at least I don’t recall them being frightening), and are sometimes funny – I know in a few instances I’ve actually laughed out loud while sleeping.  But the HAVE been somewhat disconcerting – they involve people I know, and people I don’t know – and sometimes people I haven’t seen or spoken with for decades. Sometimes the location is familiar (a room in my childhood home, for instance) and sometimes I have no idea where I am. Even in the dream I’m lost. But despite the intensity of these dreams, most of the time I just don’t want to the dream to end –  I want to find out what happens next!

As I’m waking from these dreams, I’m desperately thinking about how I need to write everything down so that I don’t forget any of it. By the time I’m awake, I’ve already lost most of the plot, and am too damn lazy to roll over and grab a pen and paper. And then, within a few minutes, the details of the dream are gone. Very frustrating – I’m always certain as I’m waking that the details will tell me something that has otherwise been eluding me.

I guess I’ll need to fall asleep with pen in hand. Doesn’t hurt to be prepared, right?