“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
~Cobb: Inception
I am a self-admitted dreamer. I visualize my ideal surroundings/circumstances and live my LIFE as if my reality is either that way already or it soon will come to pass. Most times that works. But sometimes, it doesn’t.
Funny. Today, I was thinking about a person that I thought I knew. They seem so completely different from the person that I once thought they were. Then I realized that in retrospect, they weren’t any different. In fact…they were exactly everything that they told me/showed me they were when I was first getting to know them. It’s just that in my dream, I had a different vision of them…higher expectations, I guess. Nothing wrong with that, because Lord knows that other people’s higher expectations of me have challenged me to stretch and grow. The only thing is if those visions and expectations are only a part of one person’s dream, eventually someone’s going to end up frustrated and/or disappointed. By “someone”, I mean me. Took me a minute to figure that out with them, but I think that I understand it completely now…finally.
I spent several months pushing and pulling within myself – distancing from them, then drawing closer – trying to figure out my place in their LIFE…their world…but according to MY dream. Now, I’m fully awake….I think. Either way it goes (even if I’m still asleep), it’s a lucid dream. I am aware of my initial perception of the circumstances and the present reality. And from this point forward, I will act accordingly.
