Dreams...

This weekend I watched Inception for the first time. Needless to say, my mind was blown. I don't want to give away the plot or mystery of it if you haven't seen it, but take it from me, you need to go watch it right now. Okay, so in order for you to understand why I am writing this blog post, you need to understand a small gist of the movie. Inception is about dreaming. The subconscious is powerful, and the movie is about people that can control and enter into a specific person's subconscious in the REM stage - or deep dreaming stage.

This technology and ability obviously does not exist right now. What got me truly thinking was the idea of dreams. Every night I dream, and I know that some people say they "don't dream" when I ask them. The fact is that scientifically, everyone dreams, but most people struggle to remember the dream upon waking and allowing other thoughts to cloud the memory.

Upon waking, my dreams are usually vivid enough in my memory that I can recall the storyline of the dream. I don't usually have to write my dream down because I think about my dreams when I wake and try to put them into actual memory. Ever since I was young I had wild, vivid dreams, and I could always retell them like a story. Some dreams were scary, some happy, and after some I woke up crying. I remember ones from my childhood as well and can still tell the story of the dream. It's strange, but true.

After watching Inception, I searched the internet on a subject that I had heard about in high school: lucid dreaming. It's when a person, mid dream, realizes he/she is in a dream, and changes the story by doing what he/she wants. Have you ever done that? I hope sometime soon I can lucid dream, because skydiving without actually having the risk of dying seems like it would be so much fun.

What would you do if you could decide what happens in your dream? Fly? Travel somewhere special? Let me know in the comments if you have lucid dreamed or if you don't dream at all!