Jess Jenkins's Blog: Torrid Tales of the life of an Author Living on the Edge of Boredom. - Posts Tagged "dreams"

No, I'm not talking about dreams for your future like living in a mansion with a world famous cook making all your meals and a maid service that people would kill for...although all that would be awesome.

I mean like...actual dreams. I think most of the time people don't think a lot about dreams, I know a lot of the times we dream and don't even remember it. I dream just about every time I close my eyes and I think I remember most of them. Being of course that I have to analyze everything, if I cannot figure out what in the world my brain was thinking when it gives me some crazy dream...it drives me nuts. Because I dream about everything.

I have dreams about going hunting with Sam and Dean Winchester. I have dreams about my ex-boyfriend from six years ago. I have dreams about work and the people I work with (Umm...sorry people at work. Not in a creepy way, you just make appearances in my dreams sometimes. Sorry.). I have dreams about fighting and falling and stuff that doesn't even make sense, like homicidal cats. The other night I had the weirdest dream that my mom's cat turned psycho and murdered my whole family. I inherited the house but I couldn't go over there because the cat was crazy and I was afraid I'd made it mad. You see what I'm saying here? I dream about the most random, crazy things that my head just throws together and I wonder...HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN??

I even have the same dreams over and over and over again. I used to have a dream as a kid that I was riding in the cab of my Dad's Ranchero pickup through the desert just bouncing along having fun and suddenly I find myself in the bed of the truck and a huge snake is trying to eat me. I yelled for my dad's help but the radio was too loud and he never heard me. I still have that exact same dream all the time. And I'm still the same age in it too...I just don't get it. How is it I have the same exact dream over and over again and it never changes? Ugh, frustration.

I know the human brain is complex and no matter how much research is done we'll never truly know exactly how it works. Still, this will not stop me from trying to figure out what's going on that my head gives me such crazy things to dream about. All things considered I live a pretty run of the mill, boring life. Maybe my brain is trying to make up for it somehow while I'm sleeping.

I try to write them down if I can remember to before details get too fuzzy.

So, I challenge you, think about your dreams. I know I think I've actually learned a few things about myself that I didn't know just by thinking over things I was dreaming about and how I felt in the dream itself. Write them down, you never know when one could inspire you or help you learn something new. Sometimes your best imagination is the one you only have access to when you're sleeping.

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