Day 16

Two weeks from today I will be thirty. Years old.

Here are a few things you should know about dreams.

The first thing is that dreams are CRAZY. I mentioned the wacky nap dream I had the other day. This dream was wacky because of its realism. Usually dreams differ a lot more from real life. But even in this incredibly realistic dream, there were obvious differences from "real" life. Like...we were working at the school in our district that is in Downers Grove. But there is no school in our district that is in Downers Grove. Just the kind of thing that happens in dreams. But what interests me is that within the context of that dream it NEVER occurs to you that this makes no sense or, in my case, that there is no school in Downers Grove. For some reason...within the dream's mind state you KNOW that there is a school in Downers Grove. When you have interactions with other people, including people you don't know, you KNOW them in the dream. You know things about them. You don't just experience actions in your dreams...it's not just a thoughtless telling of events. You have intimate knowledge of the alternate world of each and every dream. So....if I see someone I don't actually know in my dream, and I know all kinds of things about this person in my dream, wouldn't it stand to reason that my mind knows just all kinds of shit about this particular dream that never even come out in the dream? Maybe not...I don't know.

The other thing is this....I have yet to master the art of figuring out that I am in a dream. Well...I've figured out that I was dreaming, but as soon as I figure this out I wake up. What I want to be able to do is figure out that I am dreaming and then stay asleep. At this point, the whole alternate reality of my dream is at my disposal. I can do whatever I like, as long as it fits with the parameters of that dream world. Although, if I create the parameters I suppose anything is possible. And I guess that this is sort of where it falls apart...since my mind IS creating the parameters of this world, once I figure out that I am indeed dreaming it gets much less interesting. I think. It would, at this point, simply be imagining things, which is good too but I can do this when I'm awake and don't need for it to be a dream.

Now then...lots of good albums seem to be coming out. This Janelle Monae album is no joke.

I have to renew my license. I keep forgetting this.