Prompt: Describe a dream you've had.
Okay, the only reason I picked this prompt is because it's been bugging forever and ever. Literally. You know how people always talk about their dreams. I have a friend who claimed to dream about going to an athiest convention with me where she was pelted with fruit for believing in God... I have another friend who imagined me dressed up in a black trench coat shooting lightning bolts into the sky while laughing evilly. Both were very odd.
However, I find myself a touch jealous of other people's dreams. Stupid, huh? The sad thing is, I never remember any of my dreams. I couldn't tell you what I dreamt last night even though I know I dreamed about something. I can never remember having one of those nightmares about being chased through total darkness by an invisible psycho ax-murderer or one of those nightmares where you fall into an endless pit of darkness and jolt awake just before you hit the bottom and die from massive internal trauma.
I just don't remember any of my dreams. Ever.
It's strange because I know I dream. Is it weird that I remember waking up and remember remembering a dream but don't remember what I was remembering about the dream? That was confusing...
Just for a few seconds after I wake up I can remember exactly what I dreamt. And then it all gets blurry and faded really fast. First I lose the logical chain of events--they don't make sense anymore--and then the whole thing just unravels like ball of yarn, scattered apart in every direction until there's nothing left but maybe a vague image or idea.
It's just not fair. All of my friends have such interesting dreams about living through school while asleep and then waking up to realize "Oh Jeez, I still have to go to school!" Those ones really make me laugh! Or the ones where you get to school and realize you don't have your homework. One of my friends even told me about a dream she had where she tried to call home, but all the of the phone-cords were missing phones.
And me... nothing.
It's just depressing, I'm telling you. I think it would be totally awesome to remember everything I dream. Maybe my brain is just wired funny, huh? Or maybe I just don't get enough sleep, but even when I do get a lot of sleep and haven't been stressing out all week, I still don't remember anything.
I would research this topic further, but my class (the one I'm writing this blog for) is soaking up a vast amount of my free time currently. Thus, now that I have finished my rant on the unjust distribution of dreams (or the memories of dreams, anyway), I shall be on my (not-so-)merry way.
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