He woke up, and out of a dream.\u00a0 As always, the dream was so real he was surprised to be back in the conscious world. Most dreams he quickly forgot between the distractions of the alarm going off and his two hungry cats demanding breakfast. But, this dream was remarkable.<\/p>\n
He was on a brilliant green, freshly mowed lawn that ran right up to a beach. The sky was brilliant blue and waves rolled gently in to crash on the sand.\u00a0 His cousin,\u00a0 The Doctor, sat in a\u00a0 wicker chair. He, the Dreamer, glanced at his smart phone and watched planes landing in Sydney with a flight-app.<\/p>\n
With dream-certainty he realized he was in Australia. With no transition he was\u00a0 suddenly in a car, at night, speeding toward a city. The loneliness of being far from home swept over him. He thought how he made a new life in Sydney, which in the real world he hadn’t. And he thought of his far off father as the car raced\u00a0 over a high, massive, dark bridge. The sparkling city was before and below him.<\/p>\n
It gets dark quick in Australia,<\/em> he thought as somehow his hand reached down, out of the car,\u00a0hundreds of feet to dip his fingers in the black harbor water. He looked to his left as the car reached the peak of the arching bridge. He was passing the nearby superstructure of a giant, ocean-going freighter, painted red and white with catwalks and radar dish on the mast. He thought of all the people on the freighter he’d never met and of the far off Pacific places the ship visited. Suddenly, somehow,\u00a0 in overwhelming darkness, he saw the anchor chain with it’s massive links\u00a0and\u00a0the anchor going down in the black depths of the sea. At some point the acoustic version of a Men at Work <\/em>song\u00a0was playing with the lyrics Ghosts appear and fade-away <\/em>repeating over and over.<\/p>\n His wife woke him because he slept past the alarm.\u00a0He was amused by the dream and\u00a0 related the whole thing to her.<\/p>\n And so the dream became memory.<\/p>\n copyright 2017 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He woke up, and out of a dream.\u00a0 As always, the dream was so real he was surprised to be back in the conscious world. Most dreams he quickly forgot between the distractions of the alarm going off and his … Continue reading