About

Hello, reader.

I try my best to dream good dreams – I like to think of them as short stories.

When I wake up from a dream, I try hard not to separate a bad one from a good one. I feel that all dreams deserve being recorded (in this case, by writing it down as quickly as possible), as long as I can remember the whole thing from start to finish. Whatever the theme or the setting (or lack thereof), whether it scares me, makes me happy, fills me with inexplicable and overwhelming love, confuses me or makes me angry or embarrassed, it’s worth the effort of remembering it.

As a kid, I once read a sci-fi book in which a brilliant idea was put forward: the education of professional dreamers, whose purpose was to dream pleasant, peaceful and ordinary dreams. These dreams were recorded and stored for future use, intended for space travellers in deep cryo-sleep. The book was based on an early script for the first Alien movie. I really found the opposing forces present in the story interesting (although one of them was only touched upon in the beginning of the book); the pleasant, professionally crafted dreams that the crew experience while in deep, near-frozen state of sleep, and the nightmare that the terrifying, bloodthirsty alien represents as they wake (I’m not saying the book as a whole was that good, though.)

Professionally crafted dreams for all of us to experience, an escape from the brutal and deadly reality that is life. Wouldn’t it be great?

Though…

I, for one, still have a long way to go before my dreams are all perfectly delightful and harmless. But I’m happy as long as my dreams make me feel something – whether it’s fear, happiness, love, confusion, guilt, pride or hate. I welcome all feelings, good or bad – just as I do when I’m awake in this beautifully strange and ugly place we call reality.

Remember your dreams. Take them with you. You outlive them every night.

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