How I Dream

Ever since I took a Jungian dream therapy class back in 1993 to help me get over a life-long plague of sleep-depriving nightmares, I have dreamt in movies. The therapy class taught us that when we were dreaming something unpleasant, we could control the fear level by putting the images up on a screen. My vivid imagination not only put the images on a screen, but pictured the cinema, the exit doors to waking, and, on some rather disturbing occasions, the other spectators in the cinema all mocking me for my reactions to the "film" we were watching. While certainly effective, these lessons in dream control forever altered the way I dream and I find myself waking up every morning saying, "Wow! That was a great movie!"

So, I have decided to start documenting these dream-movies by recording my vivid recollections as soon as I awake. Armed with a micro-cassette recorder and the intent on capturing these little slumber-induced cinematic triumphs, I will finally be able to transcribe this bounty of stories that catalog and express exactly how I dream.