For a few years now, for whatever reason, I haven't been able to remember my dreams, often waking up in the morning with the distinct sensation that I had been dreaming something but what it could have been I had no idea. Also just as often, I would wake with the dismal sensation of not having dreamed anything. Occasionally, I would have a few nights in a row of very vivid dreams, followed by weeks or months of nothing. This was a little more than slightly depressing to me because I love to dream. A lot of the stories I've written were inspired in ways both great and small by dreams I've had. I'm also extremely interested in lucid dreaming (something I've only been able to do once, and it didn't last long), which is kind of a hard hobby to pick up when your dreams have gone AWOL.
January 23, 2004--My Inner Hoodlum
Happily, and also for whatever reason (of which there are many that I don't really feel like going into here) in the last few months, I've been dreaming almost nightly, extremely long and vivid dreams that require a few minutes to remove myself from upon waking. I am damn near giddy with joy over the return of my nocturnal journeys, and have since come to two decisions:
1. I don't want to lose them again and will be doing some personal investigation to find out why they stopped and why they've suddenly started again.
2. I want to pursue lucid dreaming more now that I can.
Both of these goals will be greatly aided by keeping a journal of my dreams, and I thought to myself, why not put it on here? So that you may pick into my psyche, draw some conclusions of your own, and most likely learn more about me and my cracked-egg head than you ever really wanted to know.
I will also accept any dreams from anyone else that might like to share. I want to get some kind of guestbook format thing going so you can just submit them straight to the page, but until then, email me and I'll put them up on here.
February 18, 2004--My Amazing Removable Skin