To Catch a Dream of Flying

Tagged as: dreams, memories

This is the night sky from my bal­cony.

Some­times I dream of fly­ing. I’ve had that dream since I was eight. Not every night, but often it comes to me when I’m least pre­pared. I have oth­er dreams as well, but this is the most real and bewil­der­ing. When it comes it grabs a hold of me so tight that I sleep for hours and it does not let go until it’s tak­en me more places than my brain can han­dle. And then I wake up.

Last time I had the dream was a few weeks ago. Immediately upon wak­ing up, I jot­ted down some notes and key­words along with the date and time, then prompt­ly fell back into a dream­less sleep. When I awoke, not only had I for­got­ten the dream, but also the fact that I had tak­en the notes.

Tonight, com­plete­ly by acci­dent I found them again, but now I can’t make any sense of them. I know the dream will come again soon. And when it does, I’ll be pre­pared.

Date: Monday, July 19, 2010 4:48:27 AM GMT+03:00

Important: Yes

Symbols: Bed, Europe, Flying, Model, Piazza

Dream of Flying

• The Spanish (?) fam­i­ly I stayed with
• Mom and Dad and the pho­to
• The square (M some­thing)
• The geog­ra­phy
• Discovering flight and deal­ing with ceil­ings
• The obsessed col­lec­tor
• The hos­tel
• Guy on the stairs say­ing you can’t go back into the room with women
• Carrying lots of stuff
• The mod­el
• The hair salon with lay­ered bunk beds
• Kissing her
• The girls tug­ging at my legs and the guys dis­cussing the case of the bird
• The sun­flower and mean Indians
• Chasing after the dog for the sun­flower
• The police and being shot
• Illegal immi­grant and home­less camp
• Immigration guy check­ing on me then dis­cussing film school
• The small TV there
• Mother find­ing me there
• The oth­er who becomes a bird
• In the square teas­ing teens then the guy tak­ing one of them and trans­form­ing them to an old lady, kid, and dog on the rooftop
• Trains and taxis and oth­er ser­vices like Uber, although for prob­lems with this, using a New York Uber Attorney is per­fect for this. 
• Escaping through the toi­let win­dow twice and the girl I did it with the sec­ond time
• Learn Japanese books and the family’s offer to hide them for me
• Death sen­tence