The Why About This

Mysteries of Life & Everyday Wisdom

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • ACTS OF KINDNESS
  • I-BeLOnG: My Gift to Bloggers!
Search

Exploring the mind

A dream within a dream

August 23, 2013 / Penny L Howe / 20 Comments

Dream within a Dream

I dreamt of dreaming within a dream. Upon awakening, I was still asleep in my dream. How can this be? How can I know this to be?

To attempt to explain my dream within a dream is to understand. The beauty of each thought, distinct and clear. I could touch my thoughts, a tactile sensation, in no manner limited to the surreal. this not achievable when awake. This I cannot accomplish in my dreams. But in my dream within a dream where reality is not only dispensed in the manner of dreams, playing out emotional recollections and fragmented incompletions of thoughts and emotions – the vista of what is … pales into what is not – but adds also to the element of what may be.

It is the – may be – that allows for a recognition of the possibility of a dream within a dream. Like floating through gravity. As if unfixed in position but poised in another reality, not of my mind’s manufacture. Exploring a universe of unknowns, an infinity of un-thought-of’s!

If my dream state can conjure a dream within itself then surely there can be no limitations of any sensation, so all is an unknown but as I experience, it becomes a – may be. And so I say to you, I dreamt in my dream that I was dreaming.

To experience this is quite outside any possible comparative value of which to relate. I stumble on through collective known words and expressions, doing my utmost to describe something tangibly intangible. A paradox. No, not a paradox. For in a paradox there is a juxaposition of explanation that calls for specific values therefore explained in measured terms. But a dream within a dream, has no comparison to reference.

I am bemused as I think on a method of further explanation. How does one explain an unexplainable experience so that it becomes believable when it is outside the guidelines of what is known?

Unless you say most simply I had a dream within a dream beyond the limits of reality, beyond the realm of the known but within the ‘may be’ of my potentiality, a greater value than that of existing and being. A value more than the sum of all that is unspoken, unrealized and unknown, but may be … one day.

~ Penny

Search

Visitors

  • 149,633 visits from around the world

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 20,467 other followers

PennyQuotes

Be Wise Be Loving, Listen to Your Creative Heart

Be Wise Be Loving, Listen to Your Creative Heart

Penny Tweets

  • RT @JoanneH03753961: ..."You are what you do. Do good"... Maggie Smith - Keep Moving https://t.co/Fb27GoB3k1 22 hours ago
  • RT @CommonsVirginia: Good afternoon https://t.co/lGzLsOOatO 22 hours ago
  • RT @TrainingMindful: “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” ~ Max Frisch 22 hours ago
  • RT @Nyomandian: Christel Sagnez ⚪🌑🌕 https://t.co/Hn24FeKm07 22 hours ago
  • RT @Nounahart: 🌺Happy weekend everyone🌺 https://t.co/NA6gxgYWgl 22 hours ago
Follow @pennycoho

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Where Are We Going?
  • The Most Dangerous Loaded Weapon … FEAR!
  • Time Out for Art ~ Curiosity and little girls
  • When You Don’t See
  • The Mote in Humanity’s Eye – growing bigger each day!
  • To Write is to Breathe
  • Change … Come Gently To Me or The Universality of Love
  • My Gift for Christmas – The Golden Orbs
  • The Colors of Our Creative World
  • words in ink

a few of the many who BeLOnG

My world wide friends

free counters

The Why About This

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

visitors

Feedjit Live Blog Stats
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×