It is my humble opinion that dreams are extremely important.
I do not think that they reveal a person’s soul or that they expose anything
psychologically significant (at least my dreams don’t). I think dreams are
often just a random compilation of thoughts and feelings that have occurred in
a person’s head relatively recently. The reason I believe dreams are important
is because they can be incredibly entertaining. Right when you wake up and can
still remember what you dreamt, I highly suggest writing down dreams that are
particularly interesting or awesome or just plain weird. If you do, then you
will come across them later, after you have completely forgotten about those
dreams, and you will giggle because they make no sense.
The reason I bring this up is because I was rereading one of
my old journals, and I came across a few dream entries that were just
ridiculous and wonderful. Here is one such nonsensical entry that I had
completely forgotten about until I reread it:
I was running from the police
through a series of grocery stores. They falsely accused me of kicking bananas
or puppies (it switched halfway through). I would have turned myself in and explained
the misunderstanding, but they wanted me to turn in my steel-toed shoes, which
I refused to do because someone important gave them to me. Most of the dream consisted of me running
from the head cop who was a really scary and buff guy. Unfortunately, he had spies by all of the banana
stands, and there were an excessive amount of banana stands, so he kept finding
me. Eventually, I turned myself in because I was tired, and the head cop
promised to keep my shoes safe. I somehow proved my innocence by correctly
identifying Libby [my cousins’ dog] amongst a bunch of Pomeranians. That’s when
I woke up.
Maybe I find it funnier because I can kind of remember the
dream from this description. I think anyone would admit that it’s a pretty odd
dream though. I also found one about a battlefield and ninjas and Hogwarts, but
that one would take a long time to explain.
Write down dreams!
On an unrelated note, I have learned that college life is
not conducive to blogging. However, college does provide opportunities to make
creative coasters!