Imagine being pursued by a twisted grin. Sharp, paralyzing jaws and pulsating grim eyes. Your feet feels as though they are attached to cement. As the monster from the dark takes a chomp out of you; wake up! Sweaty and scared. A nightmare, a terrifying dream. Or how about a dream that you can control? Such as a lucid dream. That freighting monster that was chasing you was actually an adorable kitten. Then there are your future dreams. Goals in life that you wish to accomplish, such as an aspiring writer, a colorful artist or even a rockin’ musician! And finally, day dreams. Dreams that happen when you’re awake. This tends to happen in a boring English class.
I had the most awful nightmare a few weeks ago, one of the worst. My friends and I were sitting in a dim room on fake leather couches. Between this couches was a simple white table and to the side of us, was a giant screen, maybe half the a size of something you’d see in a movie theatre. After we had gotten comfortable, a deep voice filled the room. A voice of dark evil and as it spoke, the screen flickered. It showed terrible images of stick figures brutally killing other stick figures. The voice explained that this is what he had to do to each other. In a panic, we frantically looked for a way out and that simple white table had weapons on it. We stared in each other in shock, I woke up. Disgusted with myself, terrified, and very sad. I swore to myself that I would try to wake up from something like that as soon as I noticed it wasn’t going to be a pleasant dream, then try again for a good dream.
I have many dreams, but most don’t happen while I sleep. These dreams are my future goals. Some are unrealistic, but I heard it’s healthy to dream of them anyways. I’ve dreamed about being a musician, an artist and even a author. It’s not that they’re aren’t possible, they’re just unrealistic. Not like working under a health care system or helping fight forest fires, those are realistic and within reach. I would also love to have a family one day. Wake up to a beautiful wife on my shoulder and have two screaming kids wanting breakfast every morning.
I’ve learned to control my dreams. These are called lucid dreams. There is some “training” that needs to be done to be able to lucid dream and I’ll let you in on how it is done. First, every time you wake up from a dream, write about it the moment you wake up, while it’s fresh in your mind. Keep doing this until you gained control over your sleeping conscious. I did this without noticing. I would tell people what I had dreamed about, most of the time texting them about it, then one day, I was able to control a situation in my dream that was totally ridiculous. Usually when I want out of the situation I tell myself to sprout wings and fly off to a distant land, and it works! Lucid dreams can also allow you to smell certain scents, normal everyday smells or hear a specific sound - under your control of course. Learn this, it’s definitely worth it.
As you can clearly see, there are a multitude of dreams and ways to have those dreams. Given the information above, dreams are clearly highly complex and can have a variety of emotions behind them. Lucid dreams you have control, nightmares leave you sweaty and in shock and day dreams occur while your awake. Dreaming of what will become of your future and having a better insight in life.
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