Dreams Slip Away

Don’t be caught slipping or sleeping

Ironically, dreams are most vivid when we sleep, but you need to be awake and act on them to live your dreams.

Had I not begun this journey of daily writing, I would not have learned this important lesson about dreams.

I have learned, painfully, that many ideas will need immediate execution. Most of my ideas needed money but I have often lacked the means to execute them.

We have the power to dream, but dreams slip away just as fast.

All too often, as I’m about to sleep, ideas hit me, in tidal waves. Initially, I’d make mental notes to jot them down when I woke up. This is the foolish mistake I vowed never to make because dreams slip away.

Once, I had an amazing dream about an evolutionary explanation of the behaviour of a species I was heavily invested in researching. I was so excited that I was tossing and turning in my bed. But when I woke up, the story faded. Dreams slip away.

I banged my head for the greater part of the morning. I thought it would be like those dreams that pick up from where you left them after a brief nighttime rush to the washroom to pee, but it didn’t resurface. It was a heavy loss. It was a dream I wanted to act on, but alas, dreams slip away.

Ideas strike when I least expect them. When writing, doing laundry or the dishes, walking, while working ( I once composed an entire song in under 10 minutes while at work), before, during, and after sleep, and from all the ideas I lost, I have learned to pause and note all of them down.

This is how I have enough material to write daily for three years, without failing because I know all too well that dreams slip away.

I know how to catch my dreams before they slip away… because they can.