Today’s DS106 daily create tdc562 is to  “Describe a recurring dream you had as a kid. Give an update as if the dream comes back.”  I’ve been having difficulty with the daily create writing assignments this month, like write a limerick of someone really famous, or “Write a story dialogue in 5 half-twits“.  So when this one came along, I jumped at it.  “Yes! I can do this daily creation no problem.” The only issue now was to choose which dream story line to share.

Would it be my flying dreams?

Or the ‘I have a test today and I haven’t been to class since the first day of school and I forgot to study‘ scenario?

Or maybe even the ever popular embarrassing realization that ‘I’m at school and I don’t have all of my clothes on.’

I’ve decided to go with my flying dreams for this daily create.

Rockylou has never lacked creativity and that certainly extends into her dream life.  I’d start out by sitting in a black inner tube.  You know… the kind you’d use as a kid to float down the river. But the trick was if I wanted to actually fly I had to relax, really relax, and the more I did the higher and faster I could go. I can even remember trying to teach my little sister and a friend or two how to fly with me.

I also have the fun of having a common theme in a sequence of dreams over time.  It’s a little like lucid dreaming, but not quite. It’s only happened once or twice that I recognize I am actually dreaming and start consciously interacting with my dream. But when I am following one of my extended dream story lines (Some are still showing up as an adult.) I remember what has been happening in the previous dreams and will build upon that in the present dream. They seem to have a life of their own. For the flying dreams over time I learned how to get going right away when I wanted to, and knew that there was something going on in my life that I needed to tend to if I was having trouble relaxing in order to fly.  This dream theme still makes an occasional visit from time to time.

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