Dream Fact: #9
Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems:
Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
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Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.
I wish we could have gotten longer… but I guess we have to know when it’s time to stop trying.
Why worry tomorrow? Tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Matthew 6:34
Matthew 6:34
The time when the sun never stops shining on paradise, identity finds its self, a worn down story gets restored, promising clasps aren’t broken by a tug, and the hope in chance for two broken records colliding to compose its own harmony; for that I will seek for…
Not even kidding, every night I get up from the couch and finding myself having to sit with some random person for dinner… and realizing they’re going to sleep here too? Hahaha, a little exaggerating with the “everyday” thing but basically the truth. Just not used to so much people in a house. Usually it’s just my parents and my cat by the time we sleep, sometimes just me :P
Everyday I’m shuffling Tumbling.
The moment when you want to go off Tumblr because you’re about to fall down dead of sleepiness but you can’t because the best posts are at this time. MUST REBLOG ALL!
The best gift you can give to someone is your time, because you’re giving them something you can never get back. ♥
“And my head told my heart ‘let love grow’ but my heart told my head ‘this time no’.”
-Mumford and Jones
I think Howard is my new idol, right below if not leveled with John Lennon ;)
Can a day get any shorter? -_-
A day is short, a week is shorter, a month is shorter, and a year seems to be the shortest. Soon, we’ll be waking up with white hair, wrinkles everywhere, and having arthritis…
First day of school wasn’t bad at all. All though the halls were confusing, I got on time for my classes. Ha, it’s amazing! 2hours of waiting after school is pretty fast too…
She acts like summer, and walks like rain. Reminds me that there’s time to change.
Why do I keep looking at my phone every 5 minutes, when I know he’s not going to call?
Peter Pan :)
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Land