August 2007
Dreams
26 08 07 20:59
So much has happened in the past few weeks: Staff Days at OSCR, the beginning of classes, a weekend vacation in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, a pool party with Carl's friends, and rafting on the Salt River in Phoenix yesterday with BOTOP... but I have limited time to write as I have more homework to prepare for this week, so I just want to mention something about my dreams that I am noticing.
I used to almost never have dreams... I have always had more lucid dreams than most people I know, but I almost never was able to remember my nighttime dreams.
That has changed since my accident. I thought at first that it was because I didn't sleep well after the accident. I now sleep extremely well, though. In fact, I can sleep more than 8 hours and still crave more, which is also a new development.
My dreams are more vivid than ever before too. Last night I had a dream that I was in a chorus and could not remember my part, and in my dream I could hear the music in vivid detail, so I decided to just follow along instead of trying to read the part.
One of the best things, though, was a couple weeks ago I took control of a dream for the first time. I was looking over a precipice, I knew it was in New Mexico but didn't know where I was. Then I looked down and realized I had stepped off of the cliff. For a moment I panicked, but then I realized I was in a dream and I could do whatever I wanted, so I gently lowered myself to the ground far below, looking at the changing scenery as I descended. I woke before I reached the ground.
I used to almost never have dreams... I have always had more lucid dreams than most people I know, but I almost never was able to remember my nighttime dreams.
That has changed since my accident. I thought at first that it was because I didn't sleep well after the accident. I now sleep extremely well, though. In fact, I can sleep more than 8 hours and still crave more, which is also a new development.
My dreams are more vivid than ever before too. Last night I had a dream that I was in a chorus and could not remember my part, and in my dream I could hear the music in vivid detail, so I decided to just follow along instead of trying to read the part.
One of the best things, though, was a couple weeks ago I took control of a dream for the first time. I was looking over a precipice, I knew it was in New Mexico but didn't know where I was. Then I looked down and realized I had stepped off of the cliff. For a moment I panicked, but then I realized I was in a dream and I could do whatever I wanted, so I gently lowered myself to the ground far below, looking at the changing scenery as I descended. I woke before I reached the ground.