I Dream'd in a Dream

I have been dreaming a lot lately. Some are very real. Sometimes I wake up wishing they were real and other times I wake relived that it was only a dream. But usually I can’t seem to shake them. When I have a dream its like it follows me all day, sometimes for days. It’s frustrating and I don’t know what to do about them. Obviously there is nothing really I can do about them. The worst are the ones where I wake up and realize it wasn’t real and I wanted it to be real so bad. Then its like I have to mourn the loss of something I never had. The only way I can explain it is like I have a hole or an empty space and then the dream fills it and I wake to the realization that the hole is still empty. This all sounds pretty sad, right? Well I think it is sad.

I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the
whole of the rest of the earth,
I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.

-Walt Whitman



Currently Listening to: Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
Currently Reading: Democracy Matters: winning the fight against imperialism by Cornel West
Currently Contemplating: Last nights dream