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Flights of Fancy
“We live in a fantasy world of illusions. The great
task in life is to find the reality.”
--Iris Murdoch.
Between wakefulness and REM there
is a place, a dimension that
I know.
The experience is vivid.
I hear strange music, assorted
odd horns.
Swiss alpenhorns, Viking war horns,
didgeridoos, and brass French horns;
deep tones.
I smell incense, like sandalwood and
cedar, frankincense, and ginger;
pungent.
I float, I fall, spin and fly, when
I am not paralyzed, muscles
frozen.
For years I believed I really
was seeing ghosts, aliens and
demons.
I found out it’s natural.
hypnagogic when I’m falling
asleep,
hypnopompic when waking up.
So I am not crazy after all;
so cool.
Glenn Buttkus
Synchronicity
Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub
13 comments:
Yes indeed you're just normal and may i add i dream in colour and didnt know it wasnt so for everybody. Until one day i was telling my father in law about a dream i had. And he asked me You see colours when you dream and i was stunned dont you Papa?
Much💜love
This is gorgeously, gorgeously rendered, Glenn! I especially like; "The experience is vivid. I hear strange music, assorted odd horns."❤️❤️
Love this Glenn! I am right there with you my friend. I have had entire episodes occur, half asleep, half awake — they occur as I am seeing my room in a strange haze, that passes… and there I am, awake. So damned strange. Maybe we are both crazy dude…? 🥴😵💫✌🏼❤️
Superb....I can see how it is done..your setting is just right and the denouement as requested..I will learn one day! Your verse was also fascinating by the way...
That is really cool to have those vivid sensoary experiences. A gift, I would say.
"hypnagogic when I’m falling asleep,
hypnopompic when waking up.
So I am not crazy after all."
Glenn, I wrote about dreaming, and you wrote about that 'tween time. It's another realm where anything can happen. Bringing the sensory experiences back into waking takes practice, and the more you practice the more recall as you probably know. Do you keep a dream journal?
Lots of new words to learn here :) - hypnagogic, hypnopompic - Thanks!
I sometimes have entire, coherent, stories play out in my dreams. All fantastical though, just like you! Love the poem.....
Pure awesomeness, Glenn.
Love this, Glenn. So many sensory experiences.
I think this is one of my favorites of yours that I've read, Glenn!
-David [ben Alexander]
I love how it feels so real... and maybe that state between awakeness and sleep is as real as anything else.
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