Dreams

     I've never been able to figure out how to rationalize or decode my dreams. Some of them are hilarious and fun, but others are weird, dark, and creepy. I've heard that if you fall asleep thinking about what you want to dream about you can control your dreams. I can't.

     Most of the things I dream about I don't remember when I wake up. I either wake up in a great mood or kind of freaked out not knowing why. I assume when this happens I had a nightmare, but I can't be sure. I learned on one of those Dr. Oz-like shows that you should write down what you dream about when you first wake up so you don't forget. But it's like I instantly have no idea what I was dreaming about.

     The oddest thing about my dreams is that sometime I'm not myself- I don't mean I'm acting weird, I mean I'm literally another person, sometimes even a guy. (WEIRD). Sometimes I dream in color and others it's black and white. Sometimes I'm at "home," but it's not where I actually live, and sometimes the people I care about in the dream I don't know.

     The funny part is, I've heard that you have to have seen the faces in your dreams somewhere because we lack the capacity to create faces in our minds...but if this is true, does that mean that artists who paint people without models are painting randos they saw on a street corner? Food for thought.