I keep writing updates in my head! The strangest thing has happened. I have stopped dreaming of my childhood home, after I wrote about it. I wonder if my brain will let me in on the processing it does without me knowing about it. 

I keep having crazy vivid dreams, but since I decided to write out a post about it, I seem to go through it in my head and sort myself out before I even sit down to write. 

There is a possibility that a friend may be coming to live with myself, Tom and my father. With her 8 yo son, and 16 yo daughter. Yes, this is communal living at it's most full on!!! It is 50/50 at this point - all up to her and some career options... it is exciting and scary and very likely the context of future writing. 

I am fairly sure that I have written in the past about my dreaming - my vivid, strange, believable, realistic, extraordinary and sometimes lucid dreams. I still remember in minute detail some of the dreams that I had when I was a small child - single, and recurring. 

Dreams are a funny concept - they can be so fantastic that you can't comprehend that something is so normal, so human; so common, yet so individual. I cannot speak for other people because I don't have their dreams, but I find my dreams incredibly difficult to describe the next day, even if I appear to be giving quite a detailed recounting. It just isn't right. One can never quite convey the full narrative and intrinsic details of a dream - sometimes realistic comparisons just don't seem to exist. 

I have always thought about my dreams and sometimes struggled to remember whether something happened or if it was a dream. Lately, I have been more and more aware of recurring themes and places in my dreams, I have tried to understand it but there is no manual! Well there ARE - but they are as useful as a horoscope in a newspaper. 

My last post was about the ability of ones brain to process things without even knowing it, so I have decided to start trying to record my dreams. A lengthy narrative seems way too arduous at this point.. so maybe just themes and ideas and places to start with - let my brain uncover things as it goes on. 

Last night I dreamed again that I went 'back' to school. Not the school I went to in NZ, the one it Sydney. It was a 'first day' - the dreams are often first days. People who went to school with me then have also gone back... plus friends and teachers from my school in NZ. I dream about that school all the time - the only thing that is realistic is the basic structure of the buildings and some of the classrooms - the actual school and situation is totally different. 

In many of my dreams, 'home' is my childhood home in Sydney. My family is still together - not as a focal point of the dream, but as the background. 

There are many simplistic interpretations that anyone could make at this point - but they still don't make any meaningful sense, so I shall keep watching.