Saturday, February 28, 2009

Dream World

"Drifting Aimlessly," an etching by Dan Mitchell Allison, from our collection.
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Do you ever have dreams of flying? Do you dream in color or black & white?

I haven't had flying dreams for years. Perhaps I stopped having them because they always ended with my being suddenly awakened by the sensation that I had just fallen from a great distance onto my bed, with my heart pounding in fear. I have always dreamed in color and was astounded to learn, as a child, that some people dream in black and white.

One recent morning when I awakened from my dreaming, I realized that I was always young in my dreams. At a point in my life I had stopped aging and was stuck somewhere in my late twenties. In my dreams, I had seamlessly transitioned myself from childhood into adulthood without the merest notice of having done so. But here I was frozen in perpetual youth in my dream world. When I mentioned this to Tall Husband, he reminded me that we are the authors of our own dreams.

So in the next few dreams, I seemed to be my actual age. But enough of that! Rewrite!  I am now back to being a mere slip of a girl. Whose dream is this anyway?

2 comments:

  1. Aren't dreams interesting?! I have some that are so fantastical that I wish I could paint them, and they are always in color. I also have weird ones where I can actually feel things in them. Like once I fell onto some very dreamy velvety grass,and in my dream I could feel it on my face.
    I'm younger in mine sometimes....I think I go back and forth too much to realize it though.

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  2. Hi Elizabeth,

    Sounds as though you have the dreams of the artist that you are. Hmm...I can't remember having sensory dreams. Velvety grass does sound wonderful.

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