..well not actually Manderley, California to be precise. I dream a lot: full on technicolour, action, drama, interactive, cinematic blockbusters. Sometimes my dreams are so involved I don't want to wake up and miss the ending. So this morning I woke after a night of travelling, I travel frequently in my dreams and last night I was in California.
A recurrent dream of mine is going to the States to visit family. In the real awake world I used to go the US a lot, I'd fly to LAX and get a connection to Salt Lake City where my family would collect me. However the connection between LAX and SLC was tight and if immigration had a queue around the block I'd invariably miss my connection. So the recurrent dream is always me worrying about the connecting flight and what I'm going to do if I miss it - it's actually a very irritating dream that never goes anywhere. However last night this recurring dream had another element to it - I was at the beach in Cali sat on a grass verge, I was with my brother and his family and we were watching these huge waves seemingly take people to the heavens on the cusp of their waves and bring them crashing to the floor. It was so exciting and in my dream I had the scary gut feeling of being in these huge waves but also the exhilaration of being thrown around in the sea... it was amazing. (I won't bore you further with this dream and the wedding planner stuff I was doing behind the scenes with Marc Jacobs - we just couldn't agree on Anything!)
Dreams are pretty easy to decipher and this was incredibly clear to me. Tonight I'm meeting a very old and dear friend tonight who is a surfer. We met when I was travelling many years ago and at one stage he was living in La Jolla in South Cali where I used to go and visit. He now lives in Ireland where he still surfs the big waves... but with a lot more clothes on! Also I was on the phone to my brother last night hence his inclusion in my short but epic film.
This type of dreaming is called lucid dreaming where you're aware that you're dreaming and that you're able to control or interact with the incidents actually occurring. I sometimes feel as if I'm making a film and if I don't like the direction it's going, I can change it. Looking online for more insight into this phenomenon I find it's a much discussed subject and a great deal of books have been written around this subject. Creative minds find they can solve mental blocks in this dream state and there are hundreds of web pages dedicated to teaching you how to lucid dream as if by lucid dreaming it will solve all your problems.
In my experience lucid dreaming is generally a positive one, a place where I travel the world and experience all the things I can't do in the awake world i.e. body surfing 30ft waves in the balmy pacific ocean. A bit like this.... but I've yet to meet Leonardo... and the next one makes me laugh, a lot. Happy Weekend y'all.
2 comments:
I would like to think it is that you need to come to the states....just my interpretation. I am a bit jealous whereas I very rarely remember any of my dreams. Don't know if I want to evaluate that...
I was going to write about how for the last three nights I've had the worst nightmares ever!! God only knows where they've come from.x
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