Let me set the scene, it's 8:00 pm. I've just gotten out of the shower after a sweaty trip to the gym. As I lay in my bed with my soaking wet hair drenching my bamboo fiber pillow case I turn on some episodes of The Mighty Boosh, the first season of course, and begin to stumble, a normal evening activity. After passing through a world of confusing games, random wikipedia pages, some recipes, diy activities, and much more I stumble on something that I stumble on very often. Writesomething.com. So of course I take a moment to write something random and not witty at all, and then I continue to read the page. Someone left a comment about how their mother taught her the importance of day dreaming, and I thought to myself, I thought Katie, that's so lovely.
As an avid day dreamer, I spend my time imagining myself marrying Stephen Colbert or going back in time to the twenties and swooning over some jazz or going on an adventure of uttermost importance to history or going back to Sumer and seeing Mesopotamia first hand... and marrying stephen colbert. I also imagine more romantic things, like staying in a coastal house in Greece while only wearing white dresses and perfect leather sandals while the wind whips through my wavy mess of hair. And sometimes I daydream about more realistic things, things that are coming in the future, or that I hope are coming. Whatever the dream, it happens often, and it happens at random times during the day. I also use day dreams at night as well though, I use them to fall asleep. I roll over on my side think wonderful dreams and am out like a rock. The power of the day dream!
I think day dreams are truly beautiful. We can use our imagination to unlock adventures and romance and excitement and anything we want! Our daydreams are also so personal, it's what our deepest desires are, the desires we don't have to share with anyone.
So keep day dreaming, keep traveling to other worlds, keep using the imagination we were born with, keep loving those moments when we can just lay outside in the sun dreaming of another place. Because day dreaming, I truly believe, is the most creative and personal thing a person can do.
I believe in day dreams, do you?
