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Have you had strange dreams lately? It appears many people have. I had a weird one myself the other day. In my dream, I broke lockdown to go after someone who’s no longer interested in talking to me. In the dream, I didn’t just fail to communicate with this person; I also got fined for breaking quarantine. I haven’t seen this person in a year, but his tight smile, his fugitive eyes were as clear in the dream as if we said goodbye yesterday, and it haunted me for the rest of the day.

Depending on who you ask, dreams can be premonitions, words and images from our subconscious or the result of the nightly clean-up process in our brain. Whatever they are, dreams have inspired us and haunted us throughout history. We’d do well to hear what they have to say.

Here are some links for your reading pleasure

1. Why are we having such crazy dreams?  #pandemicdreams

2. Museums are closed. The MMO game Occupy White Walls lets you build your own.

3. Why some people remember their dreams and others don’t.

4. Buying a new mattress is costly and stressful. This man found a genius workaround to sleep on free mattresses for a year.

5. South African artist Michaela Younge explores humor and violence in her fascinating absurdist tapestries. 

6. Views from windows all over the world turned into postcards from lockdown.  

7. Watch this moving animated video to Elton John’s Rocketman. 

8. Those weird pandemic dreams you’re having? You can use them to fight your anxiety. 

9. Learn to reframe your negative emotional reactions to better cope with the challenges ahead. 

10. Need a break from Netflix? The New Yorker compiled a list of fascinating short films.

Photo: Cecilia Morales

Forest

When I close my eyes I can smell the damp, cool fog as it rushes past me among the trees tall as cathedrals, whispering their secrets in my ear in a strange, soft language I don’t understand. I have seen these trees before. They were once seeds that came to me in dreams, in long walks around the lake, in idle times in the line at the supermarket, and slipped from my fingers before I could put them back in my pocket, leaving an uncomfortable emptiness, like a rock in my shoe on my way back home.

I always wondered where those seeds went after I lost them, and I can’t help but smile to see them very much alive but far beyond my reach, growing larger than anything I could ever create. Maybe I didn’t lose them; they just wanted to be free. 

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Thanks.

Cecilia