Jotting Down The Dreams

 

(My poem "FEET" was in a dream that looked like this).

I can lucid dream.  Most if not all of my dreams are in vivid color, realistic and bazaar, in stark contrast to my very mundane waking consciences.  Several times I will jot my dreams down as fast as I can.  But by the time, I do they fastly begin to slip away from me as I try to "capture" the emotion of them and disguise the "interpretation" they begin to reveal to my thinking thoughts as a "story" emerges with which to re-tell my dreams.  Several of my short stories have been refashioned dreams.

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