This Is Not My Beautiful House, This Is Not My Beautiful Wife
It's strange how dreams can really shake your reality for awhile. You can find yourself waking up - mouth open in silent scream - shaking, sweating, and cursing your memory for not being able to remember who was chasing you. You can find yourself springing out of bed and running around like a maniac because you dreamt you heard your alarm going off. You can even sometimes feel yourself "fall" back onto the matress after you were just flying around in these rapid eye induced hallucinations.
"There are several functions to dreaming. One is to give balance to the events that happen during the day. Studies have shown that if we interrupt dreaming for humans, they go crazy and psychotic and start seeing hallucinations and all kinds of strange things - even if they get the rest of their sleep. In other words, it's really a vital process. It has actually been scientifically proven in sleep lab research that dreaming increases learning or retention of new knowledge. Obviously, the more we sleep and dream, the more we integrate things that we have learned during the day. That's another valuable function," dream expert Craig Webb says.
I found myself a little shaken this morning after a particulary vivid dream, or nightmare, or both. Strange incarnations of friends, relatives, situations, and the past relived. I'm still here trying to recatch my breath; my heart is still beating to the pulse of an invisible world while my conscious mind is completely aware of the ultimate, undeniable truth:
You. Are. Awake. You. Are. Okay.
"The Nightmare", Henry Fuseli
It's strange what influences our dreams - exotic food from earlier in the evening, a song played in restlessness, or a few lines from a television programme or film. An old photograph. A prominent memory. The balance of these surrealities lies hidden in shadow; no control can be placed over these incredibly powerful visions.
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." (Carl Jung)
In non-dream related trickery, myself, Walker, and The Lee have sneaked our first episode (9/26/08) of the podcast online for the lost wanderer's listening pleasure. We seem to have received a prominently positive response, so we'll definitely be back for seconds this Friday at 7 PM MST.
In other audio related news, Thursday (an old favorite of mine) has just released a split EP with Japanese...um...wow, well they're definitely some kind of band...Envy. The split was announced by Temporary Residence Ltd. a few months ago, and is only available in a CD/LP combo. I guess you just have to listen to it to understand for yourselves:
Thursday, Envy: Split 2008
DL (change xx to tt):
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/u7t4je
Enjoy! More soon, including: the secret adventures of Phantom Stranger, journeys to All C's, and how we all learned to stop worrying and love Obama.
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