Dream Journal: Romeo and Juliet

I had a peculiar dream last night. Usually my dreams are interesting escapades filled with people that I know, often with humorous or startling juxtaposition. Last night, my dream certainly had a journey, but I could not recognize anyone.

Now, even writing those three sentences helped clarify some of the dream for me already. I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 a lot, and recently I’ve been playing parts of the game that absolutely require cooperation with others, so in my dream where I defended my backyard from a giant with a few complete strangers, I can see how that relates to playing a cooperative online game before going to bed.

That part was incidental to what really concerned me when I woke up, though. After the battle with the giant, I met a girl. I did not recognize her at all. She was noticeably shorter than I was, but that is the only detail I can remember, and I think it matters little, anyway.

The thing that I am the most affected by from this dream is that there was this immediate feeling of love. It was innocent, but it wasn’t naïve. It was passionate, but it was pure. And I had just “met” this girl in my dream. She was nothing like anyone else I had met in appearance— I knew that even though I did not really have any details about how she looked—and I knew nothing about her character besides the two small interactions we had.

It was very Romeo and Juliet. It may be nothing special, because poor Romeo and Juliet are brought up in discussions of romance all the time, but I have had my fair share of unique situations centered on them. This time it was a new part of the story that was important. It was love at first sight. I have never subscribed to that theory, but it may be because I have not experienced it. I don’t know if having the experience in a dream counts, but it happened. I knew that’s what it was: love at first sight.

After that first encounter, I woke up momentarily, but after seeing it was only about 8 AM, I went back to sleep. This new (or was it?) dream transported me to a giant lake, and I had to find my way out of it. It took me a long time, with detours and many methods of transportation. Once I finally made it back to land, I was ushered inside a building to get ready for a performance of some sort. Behind some doors there was a large room with windows at the back. Several characters from my first dream were present, including the girl.

Her head was shaved. It was understood she had to do it for something important, but I couldn’t tell you exactly without making something up. We held each other and it was the same feeling as before. How my brain knew what this feeling was like, I don’t know, but it took me a while to recover once I woke up again.

While the action of my dream may have been centered around my experiences with others online, I know this girl was a part of me that lives in real life. The situation was all about being with the other. It was all about presence and feel, things that I know are not part of the internet.

A lot of me waits for things to happen. I’ve been waiting a long time, so I don’t know what kind of things I should make happen on my own. I’m not sure about love at first sight, but I do believe in love at first date, or love at first kiss, or love at first laugh.