Last night I had one of those dreams...maybe God was merciful or maybe He decided I had gone way too long without writing. Or maybe it was the goat stew and pinto beans followed by chocolate cake l ate last night. Anyway I had one of those dreams the kind that you feel to your very core and you just lay in bed after you wake up and try to hold on to that feeling as it disolves before you.
In the dream I was in some kind of writing class taught by famous writers (like you know whom) but I was very frustrated because it seemed like the students didn't want to write as much as play on their IPhones.
Then here came The Old Writer--he didn't look like SK but he gave me that feeling that is who he was. The Old Writer came to me and said why am I so worried that the other students weren't writing when I had more talent and creativity than all of them combined and I wasn't writing either.
And then he walked away and I was left with this amazement and realization that, "wow He really thinks I could be a good writer!"
Then this other writer came to me and said the same thing and a third offered me a job writing for a very famous liteary journal for a year. I was just blown away because these writers were trying to pass this torch to me before The Old Writer died--which he did at the end of the dream.
It wasn't the kind of the dream that the details were that crystal clear but the feelings it evoked were palpable after I woke up and even now when I write about it. I want to remember this dream I want to re-feel it every day as a reminder to always be writing....always be writing. It was one of the best dreams I ever had in my life.
Anyone else have a dream so deeply moving like this?
Those are the only KIND of dreams I have, but they're almost all nightmares. I want to forget the feeling.
I no longer dream of calls I have though. I did in the beginning. Now I almost never do, unless the dreams I DO have are those calls in code. Like when I dreamed of Freddy Kruger sawing out my stomach after we had a call for someone with an evisceration, and that's probably all I should say about it. Most people get grossed out about eviscerations. I do too if I don't breathe through my mouth.