dreams
I am fully out of the funk I found myself in in the middle of last week. I had a good rest of the week and my weekend has been fun at times and relaxing at times - just what I needed. I think it's time to get back to what I originally wanted to talk about when I last tried to post: dreams.
In Korea, I have entered a totally different world than the one I was used to. The people are different, the language is different, the neighborhoods are different - everything is different. As I walk around the city awake, I encounter surreal things every where I go. However, when I sleep, I routinely return to my regular life.
As I sleep, I encounter people and places that I am much more familiar with. Quite often, I mix eras and thoughts from throughout my life, but I have found dreaming to be one of the most pleasurable things I do over here. I recently found myself in my gradeschool, surrounded by high school friends watching a KU game on a computer. I have found myself in the house I grew up in surrounded by people whose names I don't even remember but I recognize them from my past. Sometimes I am in Korea, but surrounded by friends or family.
I have been shocked at some of the faces that have popped up in my dreams. People I have not thought about for over a decade will show up where I least expect it. I can't tell you how many times I have woken up with a smile on my face. I have no idea how some of these people creep back into my psyche. Sometimes I can pinpoint an event or reason for the memory, but most of the time they come out of nowhere.
This will come as no surprise to those of you that know me well, but I also find myself dreaming of food: smoky barbecue, greasy Winstead's and Ben and Jerry's. I have learned to enjoy the rice and noodles and fish that I am surrounded by over here, but when I dream I get to return to REAL food.
Another interesting minor problem I have encountered is being taken over by my dreams when there are things going on in the real world while I sleep. This is weird, but I think some of you will understand this scenario. During Chief's season, Chief's games would be on in the middle of the night, usually ending at either 6am or 9am. So, if a game would end at 6am and I would wake up at 6:15, I would instantly realize that the game was over and I would want to know who won. I usually would lie in bed in that state of half sleep and half awake going in and out of the dream world where Larry Johnson is getting injured and Christian Okoye is scoring a winning touchdown until I forced my self to get up, turn the computer on and check the score and then I would be able to go back to sleep. I have been having the same experience when there are KU games on - I have to force myself to wake up and check the score otherwise I will be totally tormented in my dreams.
As I near the five-month mark in Seoul, I am becoming more comfortable with my surroundings, but at the same time it is nice to make my nightly trek across the ocean to return home for a few minutes to be surrounded by all of you. See you at Winstead's.
Love from Seoul
In Korea, I have entered a totally different world than the one I was used to. The people are different, the language is different, the neighborhoods are different - everything is different. As I walk around the city awake, I encounter surreal things every where I go. However, when I sleep, I routinely return to my regular life.
As I sleep, I encounter people and places that I am much more familiar with. Quite often, I mix eras and thoughts from throughout my life, but I have found dreaming to be one of the most pleasurable things I do over here. I recently found myself in my gradeschool, surrounded by high school friends watching a KU game on a computer. I have found myself in the house I grew up in surrounded by people whose names I don't even remember but I recognize them from my past. Sometimes I am in Korea, but surrounded by friends or family.
I have been shocked at some of the faces that have popped up in my dreams. People I have not thought about for over a decade will show up where I least expect it. I can't tell you how many times I have woken up with a smile on my face. I have no idea how some of these people creep back into my psyche. Sometimes I can pinpoint an event or reason for the memory, but most of the time they come out of nowhere.
This will come as no surprise to those of you that know me well, but I also find myself dreaming of food: smoky barbecue, greasy Winstead's and Ben and Jerry's. I have learned to enjoy the rice and noodles and fish that I am surrounded by over here, but when I dream I get to return to REAL food.
Another interesting minor problem I have encountered is being taken over by my dreams when there are things going on in the real world while I sleep. This is weird, but I think some of you will understand this scenario. During Chief's season, Chief's games would be on in the middle of the night, usually ending at either 6am or 9am. So, if a game would end at 6am and I would wake up at 6:15, I would instantly realize that the game was over and I would want to know who won. I usually would lie in bed in that state of half sleep and half awake going in and out of the dream world where Larry Johnson is getting injured and Christian Okoye is scoring a winning touchdown until I forced my self to get up, turn the computer on and check the score and then I would be able to go back to sleep. I have been having the same experience when there are KU games on - I have to force myself to wake up and check the score otherwise I will be totally tormented in my dreams.
As I near the five-month mark in Seoul, I am becoming more comfortable with my surroundings, but at the same time it is nice to make my nightly trek across the ocean to return home for a few minutes to be surrounded by all of you. See you at Winstead's.
Love from Seoul
posted by Kyle at 5:09 PM
1 Comments:
Dude. Great stuff. I loved how dreams from a far-off place achieve what would be spatially/socially/chromatically irreconcileable in the waking world. I had a recurring dream my first year in Germany that I was hanging out in my friends' apt in Lawrence, and we were just hanging out and having fun until they asked me when I was going to germany, and I had to explain that I was already there, but because that took too much effort I just woke up instead.
I also dreamed about going to taco via a lot.
Have fun following your dreams' logic and treat yourself to a somnambulistic Skyscraper shake on me
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