Hilma af Klint, Group iii No. 5, 1907

I got dreams on the brain

not specific ones, just  dreams

I have a theory that it'll help to cling to the wrong wall to discuss them properly.

  The wrong wall; this is just the right side of the page, that's all. But it's the wrong wall, you know what I mean.

To discuss dreams properly we probably can't even discuss them properly. Discussing dreams properly seems anti-dream. Also, we're likely all awake while we're reading this: a disadvantage

  Hey, you might read your emails in an astral state. I get it. I'm not trying to assume anything about you. I personally can't read for crap when I'm in an astral state. I'll have a perfectly good piece of text in front of me but the font will turn pale yellow and melt around like butter the minute I need to make sense of it.

Is it against the dream laws to be able to read? Are there dream laws that always apply to everybody?

That sounds possible and also stupid.

Stefan Doru Moscu, I restore myself when I'm alone, 2018

Something that's nearly exactly like a dream is the past. Do you remember a dream and your past any differently?

If I remember a dream it looks just like my past, visually, other than the giant human-sized decks of cards floating around and such. It's filmed the same.

People you knew a long time ago and don't see every day become dream figures. I don't mean that you dream about them, although you do, but that it's a little bit weird that they exist.

it's weird that people exist that had the same dream you did the same dream that's now dissolved into the air

it's simultaneously comforting and affronting, somehow

You went to a high school, some other schools. You hung out with a group of people a few years after that, doing the kind of stuff you did for fun. Jobs, rotating bunches of coworkers. Those were your dreams and they think they were their dreams? And they remember you as strangely as you remember the floating cards.

To be fair, you remember them all cockamamie also,  even if you remember them as pretty as a Snapchat filter.

i'm trying to guess how to talk about dreams in a way that won't scare them away for us like by thinking them to death but by letting them know we want to make friends, that we're interested it's like free money in there I think

Once I had a dream that a future me left $500 dollars in an ATM for a past me to get to go see Prince in concert—I told some of you this before—and while that was a cool dream (and I woke up all "How great!" and "Aw, damn!" at the same time) I'm asserting that this is not as far-fetched as it seems but shhh let's not think this to death

and then a few weeks ago I dreamed that all these necklaces came to me in Amazon bags that I hadn't ordered—they were dream necklaces and I knew it was a dream, but there were so many of them and they were so cute—I was like should I even keep these? I didn't pay for them!—but then I was like WHERE AM I GONNA SEND THEM BACK TO, THIS IS A DREAM—and I was holding all these great necklaces in my real dream hands and I knew that I was getting away with something AND I knew that this was magic so it was cool.

click

Assignment: leave a little present for your dreams somewhere hidden in your house in a drawer, in a closet behind a desk  a little drawing or something a piece of candy a cool leaf a tea light anything  do it every day for a while and see what happens no I've never tried this, I just made it up right now I'm going to try it, too

Mar Shy Sun, Love Under a Minaret Nr. 2, 2018  

      I used to always dream that I was going to Paris. I believed it every time. OH MON DIEU I'M IN PARIS AND THIS TIME IT'S REAL EVERYTHING IS VERY BEAUTIFUL LOOK AT THAT GIANT DECK OF CARDS WALKING UP TO THE CEILING AND OUT OF THE SKYLIGHT  SO FRENCH  <<<alarm>>>  oh

but this is real in case you'd care to go

Here, I made this for you. You better go to bed now and listen to it.

      But Tina, it's _________ o'clock, I just got up/ate lunch/etc  THIS HAPPENED TO ME AND NOW IT'S HAPPENING TO YOU 

   What?? Aw man.