I have weeks where upon awakening in the morning I have no recollection of dreaming at all and other times when I can remember things so vividly it disquiets me especially when in the dream there are people I know from real life who have no connection to one another and who are now together.
Perhaps you too have dreams that feel like they last forever but, I've done enough reading, if even less understanding of what I'm reading, to recognize that very often dreams take a matter of moments and not even minutes.
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| Childish Sweet Dreams by Sergey Nivens |
As a matter of fact, what we know (actually, what I know) about dreams wouldn't even fill one side of a three-by-five file card so I welcomed the discovery of this feature by NPR.
I think Shakespeare's Hamlet may have been on to something when noting, "To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…"
-bill kenny
