The Dream State

Every night when I go to bed, I settle in and I begin to pray.

                  Lord, I thank you for this day.

I then review the day I have had, the good, the bad, and the ugly. My thoughts then focus on the day to come, and what I will need to accomplish.

It is at that point that I begin to drift into sleep, into subconsciousness. Between sleep and wake, I enter the dream state.

It is in the dream state that I often have my highest level of creativity, receive the most inspiration. Thoughts, ideas, concepts, words, phrases enter my mind, in a whirlwind of activity. I do not know if my brain has created these things, or if these things have been given to me.

When I wake, I remember some thoughts from the dream state. My usual pattern is to think about them for a few days, try to remember that state, review the thoughts, and wait to see a clearer picture. Once the thoughts have aligned, I begin to write. If the thoughts do not align on paper, I leave the piece and come back to it later.

Not everything from the dream state is retained. I have written poems, even songs in the dream state, complete with verses and melodies. In the rare times that this happened, in the morning, the poems and songs were gone. I remember that they happened, yet I cannot retain them.

Perhaps those lost thoughts and songs will come back to me, in another dream state. Maybe I should keep a pen and paper by my bedside, to write things down. A dream state journal.

What do I write and share here? Poems? Writings? Blog entries? Perhaps. However, maybe, more succinctly, contents of the dream state.

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