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What Dreams May Come

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I rarely remember my dreams.  But the other night I do remember that I dreamed I was on a boat, a huge cruise type boat.  The captain was yelling at everyone to grab an oar because we needed to row home.  The only thing that I could find was a roll of toilet paper.  But the captain kept yelling, "Row!"  Then I woke up.  Wish I knew what it meant because they say your dreams have meanings.  Like, if you dream you are being chased it means that you are feeling threatened by someone or some emotion.  I checked my cabinets, I have plenty of toilet paper.  
Photos can represent dreams in so many ways.  By the subject, the composition, the post processing.  An image can be surreal or ethereal, and therefore be dream like.  I love images that take me away, make me wonder what’s going on in that world.  I want to put my ear to the picture and hear the sounds.  What dreamy images do you have or can you create?  Do you remember your dreams and can you represent one in a photo?  Or maybe someone is dreaming.  Come on, spill the dreams here. 
 
This guest post comes our way from the lovely Melody of HipMomma’s Journal.

 

 

Comments

  10. Talking about dreams, the one pic that I can relate to is this one taken playfully by my then 5-year-old son..it was actually a picture of me being angry. I think he snapped it too fast and it resulted in this. When I made it black and white and cropped the face area..it looks like some image from a dream. That’s the image I always see in my dreams..blur, black and white..and inconsistent.

    http://flickr.com/photos/hliza/2140245847/

  12. When I was a kid I became afraid of going to sleep… I’d close my eyes and have ‘visions’ of what nightmares were waiting for me.

    The nightmares weren’t your typical guy chasing you, trapped, scary monsters and ghosts… They probably wouldn’t even be scary if you really looked at the picture-but I found out later in life, through some of my first panic attacks, that those reoccurring nightmares actually were images of how I felt-during a panic attack.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/edarcy/1592419835/

    So my picture represents that. all the glow, and suddenly the enveloping darkness that I felt trapped inside and gave me a fear of dreams.
    (I don’t have the same nightmare any more-after I slept with a dream catcher above the bed-it vanished…)

  18. thanks for the link 🙂 the whole time i was shooting that church, i felt a little like i was in a dream.

  30. I just dreamed that I was having breakfast with Martha Stewart, who complimented me on my choice of cell phone. I blushed and said, basically, "This old thing?"

    I am on vacation on the coast of Maine, which may be the world’s dreamiest place to be in July.
    I hope to have some dreamy photos to share when I get home.

    Love the post and image, Melody!