ss - Dreams & Journey's

Dreams intrigue me.  When I wake up in the mornings, I try and analyze why these particular visions played out in my mind.  If I dream of a person or a place, it's usually because I had thoughts of them recently or had a memory of someone, someplace.  Those dreams can be on the psychedelic side but nice all the same.  I love the dream where I can fly.  Do you know the one, where you crouch down and jump up and all of a sudden, you're flying in the air like a bird.  You look below you and you see the familiar streets and houses and parks and rivers.  Then you land, and you wish you could experience that again, but you can't.  The dreams that frighten me the most aren't your garden variety fright fest dreams.  No, mine are the ones where I'll get a visit from somebody I know directly or indirectly - and I haven't thought about this person at all, in a long time.  They usually carry a message for me, a very hard to decipher message that I won't figure out until a couple of months later when something happens (good or bad) and then I remember that dream.  It's those dreams I could do without, but I truly believe that if a message needs to get through.. it will find a way to.  I love dreaming about my Grannie who passed or my good friend who went away far too young.  I feel like those are special little visits and I cherish those dreams.  I have drunk dreams too, when I drink a lot of wine and my head spins 'round and 'round.  I get weird flashes of faces and places then I wake up with a pounder of a migraine.   

I think about dreams a lot.  How they play out and what do they mean.  I have access to a dream decoder but I don't use it that frequently because I like to put my own little spin and label to my dreams.  I used to ask my mom all the time what it meant when I dreamed about this or that.  I was always so curious.  I don't know exactly when kids start dreaming, but now, my daughter wakes up and immediately tells me what she dreamed about and asks me what it could mean.  For now, I make up little fairy tale stories and give her words of magic and hope.  My wish for her is that she always is curious like I was and that she dreams vivid and big things, while sleeping and while she's awake.

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Comments

[Becca]

I like that wish for your daughter - that she dream "big and vivid things, while asleep and awake." I think that's a wonderful thing to wish for a child. Hope all her big dreams (and yours!) come true!

[Paris Parfait]

Such a sweet gift to your daughter - all that positive reinforcement and encouragement is so critical to little girls' self-esteem. If you're going to dream, why not dream big? xo

[Regina Clare Jane]

I think children have these magical dreams that are more real than not! We used to have them too, but we forget...
Your sentiment about your daughter and your wishes for her are truly beautiful...

[sarala]

I think it is beautiful how you spin your daughter's dreams. Great stuff.

[Bohemian mom]

Beautiful writing!
I love this!