Blog 2 - Dreams

 

falling - mixed media

   When asked, "What is the nature of dreams?" my first thought is that dreams are the best our minds can reinterpret reality. Most of the time our unconscious mind scrambles and smashes all it's been thinking of into these dreams. The topics or objects usually found when asleep are things we are afraid of, or been turning over and refusing to forget, and sometimes wishes and goals that society has actually coined to be "our hopes and dreams."


   Do I believe in coincidence? Well I certainly don't think fate has the world wrapped tightly around its finger. Out of the millions of seconds and millions of occurrences this world experiences, it's not impossible for things to cross paths or be an uncanny amount of similar. From me reading the same random word right as the song I'm listening to sings it, to couples having the other partner in the background of pictures ten years old. History not only repeats itself, time has a habit of copying itself.


   Memory is like a dream in a sense of... gathered recollections. In vivid dreams, sometimes it's hard to remember what was reality and what was the dream. As time passes, old memories start to become hazy and glaze over like an odd dream. Our minds hold and process information in only so many ways, when all of this is stored, it's easy to have the lines blurred. One can easily dream their alarm went off and they started their day, only to wake up to the alarm again in reality.