[LNHY/ACRA] The Daily Super Short-Short Story #25

Martin Phipps phippsmartin at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 4 17:00:09 PDT 2004


saxon.brenton at uts.edu.au (Saxon Brenton) wrote in message
news:<15f3bff1.0410020028.78cc32d9 at posting.google.com>...

>      The young man continued to climb higher and higher, and eventually 
> he woke up.

That's about right.  When I realise i am dreaming I usually wake up.

For me, flying in dreams takes place not because I realise I am
dreaming and I think I can do anything but because I realise I can't
feel my feet touching the ground so then I rationalise this by having
myself fly instead of run or walk.  Or when I imagine myself running
and I try to go faster I realise my legs aren't really moving at all
and I wonder why I am still moving forward so again I rationalise this
as me flying.  If it occurs to me in either case that I am actually
dreaming then I will wake up.  It would appear that the mind goes out
of its way to convince us that our dreams are real, presumably so that
we don't wake up prematurely.

Martin



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