When Dreams Become Reality

Dreams have a way of saying what you were unable to say when you were awake.

They capture your fears, goals, and deepest desires and enhance them to a degree you could never do by yourself.

I don't normally sleep walk but I had a dream so real last night that I woke up thinking I had done those things. The more I lingered on the dream the more I questioned my reality. 

What was time?

What day is it really?

Have I already lived this day... only differently?

These questions seems strange but the dream was so real that I pondered these questions for hours. In the shower I shampooed twice while thinking on these things. Having breakfast I allowed my coffee to grow cold while still digging for answers. When walking the dog I hardly noticed the constant barking when reliving the questionable dream or reality I had experienced last night. I made a few friendly phone calls to snap myself back into motion and into the "now". But the question of time still hung over my mind like an invisible mist. 

I found a quote by Edgar Allen Poe, one of my favorite authors, that really made me think about the possibility of dreams or reality or the absence of reality at all...

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”-Edgar Allen Poe

What is reality exactly?

Is it something created by the mind to give us humans something to hold onto when we feel ourselves growing mad? 

I encourage you to post your reflections below and give me your thoughts. Let me hear your dreams below in the comment bar. I'm very interested to know your ideas on this matter. 

Unless in fact you're already mad, which I believe "all the best people are." -Alice in Wonderland