Awakening
Sometimes I keep going back to sleep in the mornings because whatever dream I was having got interrupted, and I want to try and make sense of it or see where it’s going. In doing so, I’ll miss hours of time I could be putting towards doing something productive…and real.
This morning, I had a few times where I went back to sleep to pick up where the dream left off. Then, as I grogged awake, I realized that some of my life is like that. I’ve had many dreams interrupted in the course of my life, and I sometimes try to dwell in them and see how they make sense in light of things now. Which, I realize that’s not necessarily bad to do. But, if one does it enough, he gets stuck in the past and doesn’t know enough about what’s going on around him to really get anywhere.
This also happens with thoughts of future things. Maybe the dream hasn’t been interrupted yet. But, you sit around dreaming and never do anything about it. You get comfortable in your dreams and never make a move. Merely thinking never solved anything. A solution isn’t a solution unless you can carry it out, and that requires action.
Or maybe it’s thoughts of frivolous nonsense that just catch our eyes or tickle our fancies. So, we take them in and enjoy them over and over and over again while life flashes by. And this never gets us anywhere.
I want to get somewhere.
I want to wake up.
I can relate to your going back to sleep tp pick up where you left off in a dream. I’ve been doing that a lot recently. I’ve woken up early in the morning with my alarm, and even though I was wide awake and ready for action, I would go back to sleep to see how my dream would proceed.