For a couple of years now, I have been having a recurring dream...
It is always the same.
I can hear music and joyful shouting. Then I feel a cloud of dry air (like powdered chalk) surround me, and I panic for a second, not able to breathe.
But then, very quickly, a calm washes over me...
I open my eyes a tiny bit, only to feel my eyelashes heavy with fuchsia dust...
I see a man lost in the moment...
And then, there is this happiness that fills the inside of my being, and I start to dance, while colorful powder rains, in abundance...
Sometimes, I wake up from a dream, to find my dream morphing into reality (like the giant lobster sized scorpion dream). And then, like a shock wave, I grab myself and say,"Oh my goooodnessss!! I dreamt that last night!!!"
Every year, new and incredible photos emerge from people's experiences at "Holi - The Festival of Colors..."
The first time I saw these images, I almost fell over. They were almost like stepping into my recurring dream (described above). And I thought - perhaps I have traveled to Holi, through dreamscapes?
I don't know about you but, I have a crazy active dream-life. Mister Lovee does not. Isn't that curious? He says that he never dreams. Ever. (He has only shared one vivid dream since I have known him)
Do you have a vivid and active dream life?
Many of my art visions tap me on my shoulder while deep in dreamland, and I hold on as tight as I can to those visions, while spinning through the clouds, traveling towards waking (whilst hoping to have brought back a smidgen of memory)...
I was a very serious sleepwalker as a child. I would walk through screen doors, and more wild tales.
I studied dream analysis when I was young teen, and recently saw a fascinating dream documentary. The brain is so amazing and mind bogglingly wonderful, isn't it?
Still, I can't help but wonder, if in all of this, the message to me is to get over my long distance dream phobias, and head to Holi next year?
Possibly Maybe? Wanna come?
All photos from http://www.pixcetera.com/blog/2010/03/01/holi-the-festival-of-colors/ (photo credits (not in order): Manish Swarup AP, Daniel Berehulak Getty Images, Bikas Das AP, Anupam Nath AP - follow above link for more images and details)
