People that know me have heard of my very complex and deep narrative dreams. I always seem to have a talent to imagine complex stories when I dream. Very detail life experiences that showcase like a movie theater playing a new movie each time. I would probably call it my personal Netflix where I get to dream different versions of recurrent dreams, almost like a genre, but also every now and then I would have an off the wall dream.
One of my favorite and recurrent but also weird type of dreams is the 'school life' dream. For my life it almost feel like an origin story. But just like any superhero, like Batman, each time is shown is a bit different or the same event.
The story usually goes like going back to school and presenting my final exams and going through the anxiety that are the finals in high school.
Growing up in LatAm, high school is quite a fun place, is the last opportunity to chill with long time friends before things start to get real. You still live with your parents, you still a 'house cat' and hang out with your friends and spend time at their place, and also still getting to hold a reputation. Is a bit different from the American high school experience, which I also was part off, but in latin america, things are more relaxed.
Knowing myself, I would always default to sports, and on every break I would go to the basketball playground and shoot my basketball all day long. I would either play with whoever is on the playground or look for the usual students that do the same as myself. So even in my dream I would spend time shooting hoops, but also be thinking about the test and wonder what time will it be. I am usually cocky about studying thinking I can get away without studying, at least get an approval note. Nothing great, not even good but a last resource I will pass. Is not that I don't take it seriously, is more like I am bracing for impact, and hiding under the desk wont make things better.
So the funny part of the dream is that I actually don't think of myself like a memory. As a matter of fact, I do feel I am my own age as an adult, and have to go back to school and try to address those notes I couldn't get in the past. So as a matter of fact is like a great 'do over' almost 30 years later. However I do see my same friends, and want to hang out with them and ask them about how life turned for them. If things were as good, when did they stop playing, and if basketball had any impact in their adult lives.
I also do wonder what happened with the alpha guys, and gals, and if they achieved what they were after. Was it worth it all that sacrifice and discipline and good behavior. Did they rebelled and if things in life turned out better or worst for them. At the end I will wake up, and feel a bit melancholic about those days. Even want to grab a ball and go and shoot it at some hoops close to my house, but then reality sets in and realize my stamina is not as great and end up playing basketball on my Nintendo Switch. 😜🏀
Don't get me wrong, I do exercise and if I had a hoop at home I would probably do it. But I just have other things on my day that I wont have time to go, do that for 2 or 3 hours and come back and start my day. Or worst, find people at the playground and want to play against them and end up injured. That will spoil my month.
But anyway, back to my dreams, school is not only a recurrent dream but also time at the beach. I spent a good 12 years living in Cancun, and spending my weekends or weekdays at the beach was something I always enjoyed. It was nice having the view of the bright blue waves. Some people call it paradise, I call it, my relaxing day off.
So I always enjoyed dipping in that water and swimming and getting tired, go back to the lay down at the sand and come back and swim some more until the sun set. That was fun, and my mind built a dream around that environment. Feeling the hot sun and the cool water and also having time to just think about my code, and my tech projects and even debate with myself and I jump the next wave.
In my dreams, those challenges went away and I mostly just focus on enjoy exploring that world. Sometimes I would see waves increase in size, other times I will swim way too far from the beach. Like I said, it was always different, and I woke up wanting to take a bus to the beach place. Unfortunately I am no longer there, and although I am not that far from the beach I know it would be disappointing seen the beach that is around here.
I cant explain every dream I face every other night, otherwise I would never finish typing. I remember once, I tried to blog all my dreams, and it was fun, but it was also hard to just be wired to wake up, open the laptop and start typing. It just doesn't work like that. But I do want to briefly document my very active mind when it comes to dreaming. The deep conversations I have with people that only live in my head. Seen myself in a movie where I am not even the main character. To finding a shelter from a zombie or alien invasion and try to find missing friends along the way. I know some people are wired to decipher your consciousness level, I just don't believe in all that, and instead focus on enjoying the moment.
Do you have a creative mind when it comes to dreaming? Is there a term for that?
