30letters- FIVE

Day 5 — Your dreams

Hello, dreams,

After scanning the first line on the Wikipedia article of "Dream" I realise just how weird you and your brethren are... successions of images, sounds and emotions experienced while asleep? Weirrrrd. But that doesn't make you completely weird, seeing as that description pertains only to your literal selves, and in this letter I am addressing 'you' to include both your literal and figurate selves - both those of you who greet me while asleep, and those that I call upon while I am awake.

Okay, that's somewhat rambly. But so are you.

To my literal dreams - you're cool. Sometimes. And sometimes you're really weird, and sometimes you're frightening. It hasn't happened for several years now, but you used to scare me a lot when I was in your grip... though now, of course, in hindsight you seemed kind of cool, even your nightmarish selves. (I wonder if you're going to get me back for making you sound somewhat like a novelty...) At the moment, though, you seem to be leaving me alone. Haven't seen you guys in a while... or maybe you're just not bothering to embed yourselves in my memory deeply enough. In which case... suit yourselves, I'm fine with that.

To my waking-world figurative dreams - I don't have much to say to you, except that you are awesome in that you are one of my prime motivations to actually do stuff. Awesome awesome awesome. I really wouldn't want to live in a world without you.

I remain,
Your sometimes-conscious dreamer