green rolling hills
Nov. 5th, 2003 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonHad a beautiful dream last night....
I was in the Scottish highlands (or at least, what I would like them to be - only time I was there I was in cities).
All of the scenery was hyperrealistic: the sky a little too blue, distant objects a little too flat and close, like it was painted by someone with a great eye for color but limited sense of perspective.
The grass on the mountains was so green it practically vibrated! It was moist and tickled my hands when I touched it. So beautiful I felt my heart leap in my sleep at the sight of it :)
I was staying in a very modern cottage type of thing - stone and wood, but it was as if the stones were laser cut to be exactly identical, and the wooden planks of the floor were just a tad too regular to be real.
Behind the cottage was a minimal, futuristic chrome bridge with guard rails that led out to a small outcropping of rock just offshore, on which the ruin of a tower stood. It was so sanitized, to see this irregular shape surrounded by excessively shiny white metal. The water was bright aqua and the white sands of the ocean floor were visible - again, too perfect to be real.
It always blows my mind when I have a dream that involves touch and small details like this - truly hits home the power of the human mind to create it's own realities.
I was in the Scottish highlands (or at least, what I would like them to be - only time I was there I was in cities).
All of the scenery was hyperrealistic: the sky a little too blue, distant objects a little too flat and close, like it was painted by someone with a great eye for color but limited sense of perspective.
The grass on the mountains was so green it practically vibrated! It was moist and tickled my hands when I touched it. So beautiful I felt my heart leap in my sleep at the sight of it :)
I was staying in a very modern cottage type of thing - stone and wood, but it was as if the stones were laser cut to be exactly identical, and the wooden planks of the floor were just a tad too regular to be real.
Behind the cottage was a minimal, futuristic chrome bridge with guard rails that led out to a small outcropping of rock just offshore, on which the ruin of a tower stood. It was so sanitized, to see this irregular shape surrounded by excessively shiny white metal. The water was bright aqua and the white sands of the ocean floor were visible - again, too perfect to be real.
It always blows my mind when I have a dream that involves touch and small details like this - truly hits home the power of the human mind to create it's own realities.
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Date: 2003-11-05 06:07 pm (UTC)I've always been slightly jealous of others' ability to remember dreams because I've NEVER remembered one in my life. To have had a dream as vivid and tactile as this ... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2003-11-05 07:02 pm (UTC)I've always had vivid dreams like this - I remember one where I was walking on a beach, and I could smell the salt air and feel the sand between my toes. Hint: undersleep dramatically for days; it really throws your REMming into overdrive :P
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Date: 2003-11-05 07:34 pm (UTC)Yep, that's what everybody says ... LOL!!!!!
Seriously, I come by this quite honestly ... my father never remembered dreams either. I will wake up experiencing strong emotions ... a sense of happiness, sadness, fear, humour, etc. ... those are my dream memories.
It took me until I was past thirty to realize that while many people think in images (and/or words), I don't (after all, the way one thinks is "normal", no?) ... I suspect that my dreams are also non-image, which could be the reason for my not remembering (most people who remember dreams tend to primarily describe images, with tactile, sound and emotion being secondary). I never got 'round to discussing thought modes with Dad (he died when I was 34), but from what I do know about him and his perceptions, I suspect that he, too, was a "blob" thinker rather than an image or word thinker, so this could very well be a hereditary thing.
My mother, on the other hand, remembers her dreams quite vividly ... and frequently makes me thankful for my inability, since hers are bizarre enough to make me suspect her of being a closet LSD user ***grin***
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Date: 2003-11-06 04:50 am (UTC)Re: dreaming in images: I don't think anyone in my family dreams this vividly; they've never mentioned it and have expressed surprise when I have these "I was THERE" scenarios. I seriously think a lot of it has to do with sleep deprivation as my dreams became much more vivid when I was in college, pulling all nighters. This doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I rather like it, it's like having a personal stage in my head!
It can be disturbing, especially when you first wake up - you're groggy and it takes awhile to sort out whether something is a memory or a dream. Re: LSD - never done it, and this is part of the reason why :P Remind me to tell you about sleep paralysis sometime...
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Date: 2003-11-06 04:27 pm (UTC)Oh, I know I dream ... everybody does ... just that I never have any memory of it (however I've been reliably informed, by more than one person, that I DO talk in my sleep ***grin***)
It's possible that I dream in emotions, but it's more likely that I dream in non-image/non-verbal concepts (which is how I think when I'm awake) with emotions being a side effect, the way they are in visual/verbal dreams.
Someday some genius WILL find a way to record dreams ... THEN I can find out what REALLY goes on in my head ... LOL!!!!
Dangerous Visions
Date: 2003-11-05 08:04 pm (UTC)All of the scenery was hyperrealistic: the sky a little too blue, distant objects a little too flat and close, like it was painted by someone with a great eye for color but limited sense of perspective.
The grass on the mountains was so green it practically vibrated! It was moist and tickled my hands when I touched it. So beautiful I felt my heart leap in my sleep at the sight of it :)
Eeeek!!! It sounds like you've been dreaming of the Windows XP default screen!!!!! Quick - call for the straight jacket!!!!
Re: Dangerous Visions
Date: 2003-11-06 04:39 am (UTC)green rolling hills
Date: 2003-11-05 08:10 pm (UTC)Re: green rolling hills
Date: 2003-11-06 04:45 am (UTC)The flat background thing kind of made me think of Uccello's Battle of San Romano (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/uccello/pic7.htm). Uccello was one of the first painters to experiment with perspective, but he never "got" it - notice that everything in the foreground looks 3 dimensional (if a bit like merry-go-round horses), but the background looks flat, like a stage backdrop or something? That's what my dream was like - the background seemed to hit a "wall" somewhere.