A friend of mine emailed me with this dream, and it got me thinking about dreams. this is the email he sent me and the thoughts that it started off…
a couple of guys are playing cricket along the xyz main building corridor (the one along the foyer) and they’re doing it quite sensationally with movements like it were from an animation film, yet looking strangely real.
interestingly, they’re playing with an oval shaped leather ball.
a couple of women enter the corridor from the steps leading from the library. and after some time we’re all sitting in the main building foyer. of the two women, the one we’re interested in is elderly and dressed in a purple sari. she also has stained teeth. she bursts into song and she’s singing in two voices all by herself. it looks quite plausible since onlyone of the voices has words corresponding to her mouth’s movements, and the other voice is humming in harmony with the words. the voice is quite raw, not unlike janis joplin or ila arun. the language is undefined. so is thegenre of music, but it’s very beautiful.
after she finishes, i say to her, “has anyone ever told you you sing in two voices?” ,and she says, “no. has anyone ever told you you have attractive forearms?”
i said…
do you dream in color or black and white? i am unable to decide about this aspect of my dreams. the Purple sari, di you see it as purple, or did you see the sari, and associate the color as purple since you like that color, seeing a purple sari is different from seeing a sari, and knowing its purple in color…
the oval ball is interesting, i was wondering why they play footbal with an oval ball since it has an uneven bounce, and since then i have had strange dreams with spherical objects replaced with similar ovals, at random, in my dreams…maybe something similar was acting on your mind. Like I once dreamt of being in a room , and i noticed the oval lightbulbs.
do you have prescience in your dreams, like when the dream is happening, you know whats gonna happen next?
the most remarkable things that happen in my dreams are that sometimes, the ending is so fabulous, i am sure i couldnt have thought it up , with all my imagination, if i were given the situation and asked “what next?” i wish i had an ability to come to the conclusion i come to in the dream , with my eyes open.
I am yet to master the art of dreaming about a particular thing/person when i want to. there is nothing i can do to make myself dream about a particular thing.
I have heard of lucid dreaming, where the user(oops the dreamer) has control over the dream, the rate at which things happen, the sequence of things and the outcome. Never been about to dream lucidly. You have had any luck with this?