Monday, August 30, 2010

i had a pretty creative dream last night. a little surprised-- my mind usually works in mundane ways. dreams for me are usually a slow succession of horribly uninteresting nonevents.

but last night i dreamt of you.

i was standing against a wall, eating yogurt, minding my own business-- like any other nonevent in any other dream i have. and then i got a text message. from you.

in this dream people had the power to make other people invisible, like i can make your existence "never show" in my gchat world. i had made you invisible to me. so while i was standing against the wall, enjoying my natural yogurt, you were walking by me, trying to catch my attention. when you realized what had happened, you just stayed by me a little. and sent me that text.

hi, you can't see me right now but i'm standing near you, if that's okay. i hope you don't mind.

it always seems like the alarm goes off at the climax of each dream.. but maybe it was my mind that froze. maybe at that moment, my mind just reached this impasse.. that it couldn't or didn't want to get past. maybe i wanted to stay frozen in that moment when i realized that we were close. drama-free. and together.

the half rule usually works for me. but from time to time, i relapse.

the mind is so funny-- it makes time move forwards and backwards and in circles in spirals in upward spirals and downward spirals and. it makes time move in all directions. directions that lead back to you.