This collection, Waking Up From A Strange Dream, feels like it pulls you into that incredibly specific, slightly disorienting space that lives right between sleep and truly being awake. It's where all those vivid, untamed narratives from our minds still hang around, echoing. For me, it's a deep dive into those elusive moments when dream logic just bleeds right into what's real, leaving us to sort through those fragments of beauty, fear, and wonder. I wrote it for anyone who’s ever felt that lingering echo of a dream, desperately trying to hold onto its fleeting reality just a little longer.
the strange dreams
So, this collection, Waking Up From A Strange Dream... it's a dive into those in-between spaces, you know? The ones between dusk and dawn, where reality and fantasy just blur into each other. It's 14 poems, and each one is an invitation to explore that wild, ethereal tapestry our sleeping minds weave. I think of it as stepping into a realm where we're both totally in charge of our desires, painting the sky with whatever we want, but also completely captivated by our own imaginations. There are just no rules in there, are there? The boundaries of the waking world just melt away, and whatever's bubbling up from the subconscious takes the wheel.
In that dream realm, the narratives just flow without any command from us – the good and the bad just dance together to the rhythm of the night. Some threads in that dream tapestry are pure gold, shimmering with joy and beauty, but then others are dark, woven with all our fears and anxieties. Even with all those different hues, there's always this unquenchable thirst to remember them. These poems, for me, they mirror that deep human desire to hold onto those fleeting remnants of our nocturnal journeys, even when memory just slips through our fingers like sand.
Ultimately, Waking Up From A Strange Dream is my welcome to you, into that space where reality and imagination just melt together. It's about unraveling the mysteries that unfold as we slowly, sometimes reluctantly, awaken from the night's embrace. It's kind of like saying, "Come with me, let's try to understand what lingers after the dream."
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