day dream believer

Right now I am taking a Jung class. We are supposed to keep a dream journal. It has been really amazing to be so in touch with the inner world. The more i focus on my dreams, the more i remember them and the meaning they have. However there has begun to be a strange overlapping with my waking and my sleeping life. Not that i can't tell if i am awake or asleep (usually anyway) but just that waking moments often feel so dream like and metaphorical, like symbols of my inner life. Usually it is the other way around, or thought of the other way around. Dreams are usually full of symbols and messages for our waking life. It feels as if there are things in the physical that are trying to awake my inner world as well as things in the unconscious that are trying to awaken my outer world. it is very fun. and very strange.

for example when me and todd drove up to and thru big sur, it was very mystical and symbolic. we drove up a windy road that was blocked off for construction. it was lit up by huge lights and a kid was stopping traffic at one point. i felt like i was physically living out a myth like never ending story or something, even though it was almost a common scene. then we pulled into a out look over the ocean. it was late at night and really dark. from inside the car we heard a loud, startling gurgling sound. it turned out that there were gigantic elephant seals all over the beach right by us. it was like demons from deep within that feel more dangerous than they are, and that need a voice. it was so out of this world, and so deep in the other world. the crossing over was amazing and beautiful. like a dream of something so beautiful you can't believe it came from you. and the sights the next day with the fog and the sea and the sun and the green grass. it was truly out of this world, from some far away place from within where the most beautiful things wait.

on the other hand, my dreams have been so telling of my waking life. so vivid and telling.

it has been quite fun.