Because it’s the day before a long weekend and I am unbelievably bored, here’s the Friday Five:
1. What’s the last vivid dream that you remember having?
I have interesting dreams and dreams I remember, years later, but they fade quickly and get so jumbled together it’s hard to remember any one as particularly vivid. Last night, I dreamt that my sister had published a book of short stories, and I was vaguely jealous because they were so good. My sister is not a writer.
2. Do you have any recurring dreams?
Not so much a recurring dream as a recurring type of dream. I sometimes dream that I’m at a final exam for a class I haven’t attended in months. This may have something to do with the fact that in my senior in year of college I had a final exam for a class I hadn’t attended in months. I also had a Statistics class where I went into the final having missed the first midterm. I think I still managed a B, but showing up to an exam unprepared is now how anxiety is usually expressed in my dreams. Even some three years after graduating.
3. What’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had?
Again, dreams fade, and what seems terrifying in the middle of the night or in those first few moments after I wake up is usually forgotten before I take my morning shower.
4. Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not?
Once or twice, if the dream was particularly interesting and I feel I absolutely must write it down. The details are never as interesting on paper, though. That would require embellishment and the addition of plot.
5. Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it?
I can never realize I’m dreaming, and I’m a little skeptical of people who say that they can. How do you know that you’re in control of your dream and not just dreaming that you’re in control of your dream? I never feel like a passive observor in my dreams, but I also don’t think I have any real control over what happens.