> Like it's been said before, dreams are very
> funny. About 4 days ago, I began journaling my
> dreams. I decided to start because every
> night for the past 1 1/2 months I have had
> some bizarre very insightful dream that would
> hold some inner truth into my life. (The dream
> I had about the megalomaniac cup didn't hold
> any truth, though). At this same, I would
> dream about creating something for a fashion
> show, and I would be haunted the next day by
> the garment until I drew it, then it would no
> longer plague me. In these dreams, I dream
> with suprising depth, and I can wake up and
> know exactly how to construct something that
> I'd never attempted before. When I show
> these sketches to people, they usually look at
> me with a "What the. . ." look in their eyes. I
> just tell them I dream it up, literally, and now
> it's my task (or whatever you want to call it) to
> create it.
>
> Since I have began journaling my dreams, I
> haven't found much deeper meaning or
> whatnot, but pehaps someday something will
> come of this! Atleast I'll be able to have a
> fashion show from all this. . .
> > -useless"I like The Matrix a lot, I do"ness
>
> Tess


I'm surprised you can remember the garments you see in your dreams. I have dreams where I create something, and it's marvellous, but when I wake up I absolutely cannot recreate it. Most often this happens when I'm close to waking up; a phrase of music will be playing in my head, which I know I've never heard before, but when I wake up I cannot remember how it went. This is one of the most frustrating experiences I've ever had.

On the other hand, sometimes when I'm awake a phrase of music will pop into my head (once again, one I know I haven't heard), so maybe it's the dream ones coming back to me. I like to think so, if only to keep me from going mad at the loss of them.

I also have started having some dreams which seem full of significance, though I can't always figure out what they signify. What usually happens is I have a dream which is so odd and vivid that it compels me to write it down the moment I wake up. As I'm writing, I realize that some of the things which happened seem very deep and portentous, like the kinds of things one would see in a prophetic vision in a fantasy novel. For example, I dreamed a friend and I were walking down a path at school (though it didn't look like any actual place at school; this also happens often, that a place or person will be labeled as a real-world place or person, without looking anything like the real-world version) and we met someone we liked to tease because he was stupid (I'm not that mean in real life, I swear!) We tried to convince him that there was something (along the lines of a miniature dragon, I think) lying in the grass by the path, even though there wasn't. We almost had him convinced that there was something seriously wrong with his perception, when a child came up to where the dragon wasn't (we thought) and stabbed it with a crystal sword. We could see it then. It was very odd. Anyway. I love dreams like that, even though I'm not sure what to make of them.

I also have a lot of lucid dreams (where I know I'm dreaming). I can even, usually, tell when a dream is about to turn bad and gently push events in the opposite direction. When I do have nightmares, though, they're horrible, and haunt me for days.

Lire"could talk about dreams for hours, including detailed transcripts of ones she's had"lyn