Let your fantasies unwind

Spring has sprung, well somewhere it has at least. Not here and not today. It's a blustery 34 degrees on the last day of March. I have a ton of homework to do and no motivation to do it. So I thought I'd just write here for a bit.

I dreamed of Spock last night, not unlike Dr. Sheldon Cooper did as well this week. My dream, however, was a lot more fun than Sheldon's. Spock and I were at a flea market looking for Star Trek stuff. Nobody seemed to recognize him as Spock, perhaps because he had his Leonard face on. Either way, we were able to shop and converse and get to know each other without anyone interrupting us. It was amazing!!

I love my imagination, it takes me all kinds of nice places like flea markets with Spock. My dreams are always in color and I can usually hear, smell, and sometimes even taste things in them. I'm told that not everyone dreams this way and that's a real shame. My dreams at night are a bit like a vacation from reality and every now and then, one is good enough to write down into a journal for a possible story idea in the future. I haven't figured out how I'll use the dream of taking a city bus to the moon yet, but I will. :-)

I'm betting that my favorite authors dream in this way too, or at least they allow their imaginations to run wild at times during the day, which is pretty much the same thing. I frequently go back and re-read favorite books, sometimes whole series by favorite authors. This lets me revisit with old friends and get to re-learn the stories that way. I'm currently re-reading everything Anne McCaffrey. I was introduced to her "Dragonriders of Pern" series by my older sister when I was 16 (Thank you Lin!). I've been revisiting Pern on a regular basis since then. Right now I'm on Petaybee and enjoying the adventures of Sean and Yana and the sentient planet. Maybe I'll dream myself into one of those stories as well, and wouldn't that be fun?

Some of us are a little closer to our inner 6 year old than others and I'm definitely in that group. I keep my imagination going and encourage it to take little trips into fantasy realms just to see what will happen. Everyone should do this, exercising our imaginations might just allow us to find a way to the stars faster and then we'd have a whole new universe to explore. To quote Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind."