Dreams of Mystery

As we go through life we never do get the answer to everything, instead we are given small clues so we can try and understand the big picture. I often find these little mysteries of life quite engaging, and depending on what they are I fully immerse myself into pursuing them. One of many things I pursue includes the world of my subconscious mind. This act not completely explained by science remains incredible to experience. A scholar of German literature once said, ‘’Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.’’(H. F. Hedge) I believe that some of us do this, taking our creative power from our dreams into reality, becoming artists, inventors, writers and leaders. Perhaps you the reader now wonder why I enjoy the experiences of being in dreams so much. To explain why I must describe how, how do I begin to dream, what goes on in my dream, how do I interact with what resides in my dream and what happens once I have awoken from my dream?

To simply summarize my experience as, I lay myself to sleep, I dreamed and then awoke would sound quite dull, and not at all what I experienced. Instead it began in fact during family worship, while I listened to our daily devotional. After finishing our lesson, we said goodnight to our parents and turned in for the night. Before I could greet my beloved I needed to brush my teeth, which provided an opportunity for my thoughts on whatever our devotional was talking about to finish downloading and for my usual mile a minute thoughts to come back. What happened lately in politics, what was the condition of our soil, how climate change would affect our area, what would I paint next, what new technology will come next year, what homework I had yet to finish, what new recipe would I try during the weekend and so it continued as I brushed my teeth. Finally assured that my teeth looked as glossy as a waxed floor, I silently walked to my bedroom. Quickly finishing my nightly ritual and turning off the light I rushed into my beloved, savoring the pleasant warmth of its blankets. Time passed soon after, and slowly but surely the bed and the warm bluish light that filled a part of my room slowly lulled me into sleep and then almost instantly I awoke.
Who am I and where was I? That thought passed across my mind at first and then almost instantly I remembered who I was, and I had a general idea of where I was but nothing exact came to memory. Lifting myself up from where I lay, I looked around; trying to figure out my location and noticed two men in black suits wearing sunglasses and talking among themselves in a small cove of trees. My curiosity peaked, leading me to forget about finding out where I was and instead slowly move closer toward them to find out what they were discussing. Any images or memories of life in the ‘’real world’’ replaced themselves with other memories and now my reality consisted of here and now. The world I lived in contacted aliens which gave them gifts of their technology in return and I woke up in a city park and wearing clothes from an older time period, the early 2000s. Getting lost in thought, my original goal of eavesdropping on the government agent quickly vanished and instead I decided to explore the city. A waterway that I did not notice before ran parallel to the park and contained a water airstrip with a plane touching down onto the strip. I had a nagging suspicion that the plane was not actually a plane since it hovered and contained an orb inside, but I quickly pushed that thought and any other suspicions that the reality and my memory actually was false or a dream aside.

Similar to a book, dreams can speed up their story at certain times. Sometimes you will notice the sudden change while in your dream and sometimes you will not, and in this case I did not notice. After several things happened to me, I found myself in a very nice enclosed apartment complex in its lobby area invisible to any other human being. I had no recollection of where I lived so taking advantage of the couch in the lobby, I slept. The act of waking up from sleeping in a dream seems quite bizarre if you actually ponder it. I came to the conclusion that if my perception of reality has everything to do with the dream and nothing to do with real life, it actually makes sense. Waking up from sleeping, I once again surveyed my surroundings and myself and found that I now wear a watch. Seeing that I wear a watch in real life, it seems normal for me to wear a watch in this reality but something looks different about it. Instead of my rubbery gray banded fitness watch, I wore a smooth silver watch with a projection in the middle instead of the screen. When I pressed the only button I could find on the watch a hologram was projected and strangely enough, functions that an apple watch seemed to have merged with my real life watch to create a futuristic design. Playing with it for a while, I soon noticed a college age girl coming out of an apartment with eyes that were gold with a spot of blue-green. Just like the government agents, my curiosity peaked once more and I followed her. Whenever something in my life within my dream changed, being curious about something mysterious always was the trigger to it. But why? The answer lies in my subconscious mind, a maze of everything that helps to make up me yet I cannot control it under full consciousness.

Leaving the apartment complex I hastily followed the girl to where some rental motorcycles were parked. They had a very sleek design, with a Toyota logo in front, wheels seemly attached to the body and lights in all the right places. I inspected the motorcycles from a distance, finding something about them strange but immediately pushing the feeling back down. Jumping one of the motorcycles the girl hurriedly left and I not wanting to lose her tried to grab a motorcycle in pursuit. At times like this dreams offer convenient explanations or item to certain circumstances that did not exist before. Information came to my memory and I remembered that my watch also functioned as a phone so I paid the fee to rent a motorcycle. Then quickly grabbing my now existent clothes from this era and helmet I jumped onto the motorcycle. The chase continued for awhile until we came to a park that had cherry blossoms in season, signaling that spring was the current season. However in real life the current season was summer but that fact never crossed my mind. Sneaking closer to the girl, I found her conversing with people of a similar eye color and I heard sounded like the plot to a science fiction but at the time I just found it astounding since that was my reality. The aliens escaped from their soon to explode planet, came to a very polluted earth, introduced their technology to earthlings, got pollution under control and began migrating to earth until their entire population now lived on earth. After hearing this shocking news, I woke up.

Lifting myself from the warmth of my beloved, I wrote down every detail in my dream. Now that I was in real life this just seemed like a really amazing dream to write down, and so I did. After doing that, I pondered a bit on what I dreamed, wondering what prompted a science fiction dream before starting my daily morning routine; making up my bed, freshening up, going for our morning devotional and eating breakfast. Thoughts of a different reality where I was invisible in a futuristic world slowly drifted from my mind, replaced with a focus on the day’s activities. Less than a week later once again I went for family worship, brushed my teeth while thinking various thoughts when I remembered my dream from before. I thought of it as an exciting experience to have and nothing more and continued again with my usual nightly ritual. Slowly getting sleepy, I waited for the savory taste of sleep to envelope me completely and it did. Only once again I found myself woken up inside another dream and a new reality with slight variations.