Reflection #16

Almost every person I know has dreams, and if they say they don't, I think they just don't remember them. I think dreams are art. Even though you/I can't actually see other people's dreams, they are so vivid some people wake up with a good or horrible feeling dependent on the dream or nightmare from the night before. I'm a good listener normally, or I used to be, so my cousin would tell me some of her dreams and even though some of her nightmares were horrible and kind of scary they were fascinating. Everyone's brains work in different ways, even if only slightly. I know that I've dreamed about kind of the same thing as a friend of mine, say the same event, but our versions come out completely different. It's like having too many eyewitnesses for an accident, each person tells a different version of what happened because they saw things differently and remembers details differently. Same thing with dreams. Some doctors say that our dreams are emissions of our subconscious and that is sometimes how we solve our problems and relate our fears to our conscious mind. I'm not quite sure what a raving demon in the middle of a schoolroom would tell my cousin's conscious mind or what that would say she was afraid of. Random demons appearing in a place that she hated? (She hated high school). When people put these down into artwork that you can visibly see, obviously it’s considered art, but even before that when you see it in your dreams it’s gorgeous. Some artists spend their lives trying to recapture what they saw in their dreams.