Last night I dreamt...

...I was in San Diego, having flown there on some work related business.  There are the kind of dreams, that you forget about, the kind that are vivid and leave a lasting impression.  And there are the type of dreams that are so left-field and dig down so many layers of memories that they are haunting; this is one. 

I was last in San Diego in '98.  It would be lovely to go back but I have no plans to.  And the likelihood of me being sent on a business trip verges on the impossible, particularly as I've just handed in my notice... but right there, in that dream, I could see the familiar cityscape and the streets.  Every place has a distinctive signature, a mixture of scents, sights, climate and many things indefinable.  In that dream, I knew I was in San Diego... with a flat camera battery and no charger.

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Imran
LOL, I'm in SD in the first week of March for a conference!
cyn
it's raining here this weekend. =)

i love potent dreams like that, esp if
it leaves me with a strong emotion that
resonates. i try to use it in my writing.
JustSoStories
[isto é bom]
Dreams are a mistery.Like to draw the things I see in dreams. I remind now I told to a good friend a dream of mine, when I saw a path and this path a rounded stone with a name, there was grass in the both sides of the road, and few trees and said other details I dont remmember now... He laughed and said that I described a place in Scotland. Well, I replied maybe I was there in dreams... And he said maybe I lived there, in another life. :)
Dreams...Dreams...
Crimsonsilk
Rain, really? Hmm... in my dream I saw blue, blue skies and a few dots of fluffy white clouds and plenty of spring sunshine... you're so right, the dreams that really loosen and shake the inner spirit are the best muses... I've felt something stirring all day today. It hasn't expressed itself in writing, but through art - but that's fine because it's an area I've also been neglecting of late... :)
Crimsonsilk
Y'know JS, those kind of dreams are the hardest to shake.... and the distance those glimpsed images travel in terms of spirit are incredible. I don't believe we have collectively, even touched on the meaning of dreams, let alone their nature. Perhaps, in our ever-growing technological world, they are the one bit of true magic we have left... :)
cyn
you called it. it's now blue skies with
cloud wisps. the rain has been off and
on for the past two days. lots of dark
clouds with blue skies breaking through
every few hours. =)

and yay for creativity and tapping
in on the muse. i'm completely immersed
in my novel and have found i can't paint
well when i'm writing so much. it's one
or the other. =(
Crimsonsilk
Oh wow, what kind of things dya paint?
Blue skies, huh...? Now that is bizarre! :))
cyn

i do chinese brush painting, CS. =)

what about you?

Vicola
Dreams are seriously weird things. I have a repeated one where I arrive for my history A-level having done absolutely no revision and I'm bricking it. It's kind of a cross between a dream and a memory actually. My other half says cheese dreams can be pretty weird, as in the dreams you have after eating cheese before bed, not dreams about cheese! Dreams are fantastic, they can take you anywhere and everywhere all in one night.
Crimsonsilk
All sorts - whatever the mood brings. My recent fad is calligraphy :))
Crimsonsilk
Exam dreams are awful... mine became a reality when I got an E for real - it was the worst nightmare ever! ;))

Actually, y'know, I love cheese dreams, they are so out there weird and messed up that there is no way you can take them seriously! Makes me feel like an Alice in my very own Wonderland... :)
Vicola

I got an E as well, for history A level, hence the dream I think. On a regular basis I re-live that moment of going into the exam room knowing that everyone else had done truckloads of revision and I didn't know anywhere near enough to fill a three hour exam. Even now the thought makes my toes curl and it seems I'm not the only one.

I've never experienced cheese dreams as I don't eat cheese but sometimes drunken dreams can be quite entertaining. Fever dreams are bad - I remember one about an old fashioned computer game where a little blue car and a little red one went round and round chasing each other all night. Freaky.

Crimsonsilk
Yeah, mine was history A level too - freaky!! (Early Modern - interesting enough in itself but we had the most boring lecturer ever, he could make a bungee jump off Everest seem as dull as dripwater - the man was awful and I solely place the blame of my nightmarish E on him ... nevermind that I didn't revise, that of course, had nothing to do with it ;)
Vicola
You did early modern? So did I!! I thought our school was the only one in the world that did it because I never heard of anyone else doing it. To this day the words 'foreign policy' and 'pope' make me shudder. Our teacher was also abysmal, she just gave us these little 'access to history' textbook and made us copy vast tracts of it out as notes. Bizarrely she classed this as 'teaching'.
Crimsonsilk
I've never heard of anyone else who did Early Modern either, how strange is that! And you're so right about the teaching method, he used to make us copy out notes too and his favourite approach was to have us read out huge passages, picking on those who he thought were paying the least attention (like most of the class). Bizarrely (or not), the entire class got E's and D's collectively, apart from one drippy swot who got an A.
Vicola
Rather unfortunately I was in a whole class of drippy swots. Everyone got As or Bs except for one girl who got a C and myself who clocked up the year's lowest mark in any arts subject with an E. If you're going to make it mess of something you might as well do it properly! Fortunately I did ok in everything else so my mother didn't kill me.

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