Dream Within a Dream
I stand alone on
One side, my family on
The other, my head is spinning
And darkness is rolling in behind me.
I have to make a decision, but I don't know
What the question or problem even is. I'm just
Filled with a sudden need for action, but what action
Is it? I don't know, and I feel scared and horrified that there
Is nothing to do. I want to run, but my legs will not move as I
Hear the distant rumblings of thunder behind me. I can hear them
Shouting now, distant and windswept, so I cannot discern what the words
Are that make them up. I scream, but no sound comes out whatsoever. And
Then, right as the clouds reach me, I finally scream. But now I am awake, sitting
Up...on the edge of a stormy cliff with darkness rolling in behind me, decisions to make.
Legacy of the Night
I dream
Always
Nightmares filling
Each and every hour
Until I wake
They are gripping
Haunting
And always moving
I am on a bus
Or a train
Or a plane
That hurtles from
One place to another
Maybe I know where
Those places are
And maybe I don't
That's the only variable
Sometimes I actually recognize
One of the places from
Another dream I had at
Another time
I still have the road map
Or the flight path
Etched
Upon my mind
Other times I could be
Anywhere
Nowhere
It doesn't matter
There's just the fear
That moves with me
But of what
I can't always say
I think I am still searching
Searching for who I want
To be
And what I want
To say
My nightmares throw me
From one place
To another
In the race to find
Myself
Before it is too late
And I am gone
I would hate
To leave this world
Never having established
My place in it
And having done something
Worthy
To leave behind
#dreams #nightmares #challenge #poetry #psychology
Flash
If you've ever had a dream where you hit something, your soul just jumped back into your body.
I'm a jumper. It's just one of those things about me. If you were to watch me, you'd see me jump at least once a day. My shoulders shrug, sometimes intentionally, sometimes uncontrollably. It's annoying and extremely embarrassing. It almost makes me not want to fall asleep in class. Almost. But, I'm overworked and undercompensated, so my head often slumps onto the desk and darkness overtakes my classrooms.
I don't often dream, and whenever I do, they are the dreams of an artist. Spider cloaks on disfigured aliens. Clocks swarming me. People lying dead from a second Holocaust. Bees talking to each other as they tower over Manhattan. A murderer staring me straight in the eye, blood still covering his face from his deadly dead, before he dashes into the distance. I guess you could say I watch to much TV. I read too many books. I think too much. All are true.
My dream often end one of two ways: someone screaming my name to get me to do some mediocre task they could've done in twenty seconds or a sudden solid impact. I'd speculate to say everyone has them. Those dreams where they are falling from a building, and suddenly hit the ground. Only, I'm never falling. Well, as of lately, I haven't fallen. The earth just creeps up on me as a lion does its prey, then, when I am good and comfortable, its ass has slammed into my rib cage, and since my reflexes aren't very awake, I seep into the earth's ass crack only to awake minutes later in my bed.
The awake ones are the worst. I feel as though everyone is staring at me. I could just be standing still and all of a sudden jump. It's irksome, and I feel like a crazy person. Sometimes, I wonder what happens. Did I probe too deep into the universe? Did I accidentally see God? Did I go into another reality? I guess I'll never know since it's all gone in a flash.
I Dream Of Odd Things!
When I was a child (aged 5 or 6) I used to dream of a cardboard box which seemed to breath in and out, then things would fly from it, like bits of paper. Not a nightmare but it always gave me an odd feeling of being worried. t made me all anxious and scared, no idea why.
I also dreamt of a bucket, which consumed people and half way through the dream it changed into a man eating goat.
Ummm then a windmill with guinea pigs on each step, hundreds of them!
Then it was moving into a new house, but the house would have strange rooms, loads of them and always be damaged with damp etc
Weirdest one is, I am n a bathroom and there is something in my eye, so I go to the sink look in the mirror...pop my eye out, put it in my mouth to clean it and accidentally drop it down the sink!