I read an article last week about lucid dreaming, or realizing that you are dreaming while you dream. Some people can control their dreams once they realize this. Normally, I would think that something like this was weird and absurd and wouldn’t give it a second thought. However, the article said that control of dreams can help fiction writers visualize the worlds that they create in their stories. Some writers claim that they are able to talk to their characters and gain information about their thoughts, emotions, and relationships with other characters. Needless to say, this was intriguing to me.
But before I could even try this to see if it was possible, I had to attempt to remember more of my dreams. What’s the point of talking to your characters if you can’t remember the conversation come morning? I have found that simply by intending to remember my dreams, I have been able to do so. (No luck on the remembering that I am dreaming while I am dreaming so far.)
Remembering more of my dreams has been rather… odd. I apparently think about things subconsciously that I would rather not think about consciously. I was shocking to realize at first, and a bit frightening. I attributed the first instance of this to me having though off something similar the day before, but now I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Last night I dreamt about people who I haven’t talked to in years and certainly haven’t thought of for months. All these things that I have tried so hard to forget… I guess I haven’t escaped them in my mind at all.