Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Dreams....

My dreams are coming back to me, stronger, harder and stranger than what they have been in the last nine months...I think this is a turning point. I really do.

The funny thing, I dream, therefore I am.

I haven't dreamt like this since September. But, it's how I first started writing, and it always helps me see where I am in my life.

I think that the little things of this past year are starting to strip themselves away and I'm starting to get a sense of who I am, again. Which is always a good thing. When I dream I am always taken to a bizarre place of something not quite normal, but it makes sense to me. I never have a 'normal' dream. It is comforting.

As I said, the last four nights, these dreams all have something in common, nothing I've figured out yet, but they are linked. A little unknown (or known depending on how into Psychology you are...) fun fact, when we dream of a person, it is never really about that actual person, its about which part of US they represent about US.

Today I had a dream of dancing, but I was dancing alone in the basement of some "friend" whom in reality, I have never met. There was a party, but I didn't want to be around anyone so I went and danced to my own tune in the basement (which was pretty done up), then we were in a car chase with some ninja's and I lost an earring -- earrings that I would never wear, and some dancing monkeys (always I dream about monkeys...I should look that up...)anyway, I think my muse is coming back to me. Well, I know she is coming back.

Now, I just looked up some of the definitions on/about some of the more prominant things...oh, crap, I forgot about the ninja's -- hold on one moment please *pushes elevator music for "Tom Jones", to entertain* -- *And she enters grac...HA I couldn't finish that line, there is nothing about me that's graceful*

I suppose it's true,what they said about Ninja's but I am not sure about the other stuff, more to ponder or just let float around in my head for a few more days...

I still have to wait to see where she is going to take me on this wild ride of dreams, and if I get a hankering to write (when don't have it? the problem is finding the space in my head to write out what needs to be written), then I will write.

And again with the random, I was just really inspired by this last set of dreams I had, no story yet, but who knows...the way this road is taking me, I could be writing by the end of the week.

Pleasant Cheers!!

7 comments:

Aaron Polson said...

You will be writing by the end of the week. I'm sure of it. ;)

(Maybe they are monkey-ninjas--or even more spectacular: ninja-monkeys!)

Kara McElhinny said...

Aww, thanks, Aaron! I'm not going to count my nunchucks or the fleas on the monkeys backs just yet, but I have a good feeling it's right around the corner.

Happy writing to you, sir!

Denise Baer said...

WOW! How strange we both wrote about dreams. I stopped by your blog before I wrote my post, but I didn't even pay attention to the title, nor did I get a chance to read this post.

If you always dream about monkeys, I'd definitely look that up. Very...different.

Hope the writing bug bites you soon.

Wishing and dreaming,
Bea

Kara McElhinny said...

Thanks, Bea! I saw that we both wrote about Dreams to, although yours was WAY more eloquent than mine. :)

Kara McElhinny said...

Oh, and I DID look up the monkeys, the ninjas and the slamming doors -- surprisingly, they ALL sort of mean the same thing.

Tony said...

The writing will come, it always does. I haven't written in a few weeks, but I'm blaming it on work.

Your dream sounds really entertaining. I usually get stuck in mine. There's something I have to do, but can't. It's a common theme of my dreams.

Kara McElhinny said...

Thanks, Tony -- I think so. And you're welcome to stop by my dream sometime, just make sure you bring your ninja stars to fight your way out of the dancing monkeys... :)