I HAD AN OCEAN DREAM!!!
Hi there! Sorry for not posting anything lately, but there wasn't any cool stuff that I could upload. Well, of course, last week I came back from a journey that I made in Sicily. Yeah, Sicily! Sicily was in my top 5 destinations of my dreams, the others being Ireland, Finland, Norway and Galicia. I hoped to find crazy guys eating fish and singing Sicily songs. Hopefully I encountered an old man in a café in Syracuse.
Well, I woke up this morning with a wide smile on my face. For about a year and a half, I was struggling to have an Ocean Dream in my sleep and by surprise today I did! But let's see what an Ocean Dream is. The story goes back about 15 years ago, on Boxing Day, 2003, when I was 5 years old. That day was a disaster for Indonesia, as a huge tsunami destroyed the cities and even reached the coasts of India. At that time, I couldn't understand how fatal this disaster had and the impact on people's lives, as I was too young. So, I was mesmerised to know that after a huge earthquake, a huge wave can emerge from the sea. Children always find huge things wonderful. Whatsoever, my heart was always on the sea, as I could swim from a very early age.
Since that time, my dream was to become an earthquake scientist and later be occupied with the study of the tsunamis. And indeed, I started telling people that when I grew up I was going to study geology! (Btw geology is really cool, even though I'm studying a completely different subject now). After this tsunami, I started watching tsunami videos and photos on the Internet in my dad's computer. And it was then, when those things started to appear in my dreams. At first, they used to be nightmares. I was sitting on a beach and I could see a huge wave appearing on the sea, about to swallow me up. I was really scared by that and I was starting to run away.
This dream kept going for years and years until I went to High School. But when a nightmare never stops and we can't even stop it, we can find a way to alter it and make it be a beautiful dream. And this is how I believe that dreams work. Thus I decided to let the waves crush upon me and I would hold my breath, so water wouldn't come to my lungs. Actually, this is something I used to do when I would go to a beach in Cefalonia, where waves would be rather high. I would tuck myself underneath the surface and feel the warmness of the sea. I tried this on my dreams. And this was the most beautiful feeling I ever had. It was like I was in a warm home. I knew I was underwater and the waves were crushing on me above. And the most wonderful on that is that nothing seemed like real life where you can't hold your breath long underwater. In my dreams I could stay for hours under the sea, without a problem, like I were a fish!
I decided to call that my Ocean Dream and many of my poems contain that phrase and refer exactly to that feeling, which I wish I could have every night in my dreams. During the second semester of my studies, I was learning a lot about the Romantic era (I was born for that xD) and I used to read a lot Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron etc. There was a poem that had striken me and I read it about 4-5 times: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It's all about shipwrecks, dark night, full moon, incomplete love, wanderers etc. And one night I had the last Ocean Dream of mine. I wouldn't like to repeat myself here, because I know I have written about it in the Poetry post.
My last dream was one year and a half ago, and since then I didn't have any other Ocean Dream. However, this summer I downloaded some apps on my phone, where you could build the Universe from scratch, all about evolution etc. (Please DON'T assume that this has to do with creationism, pleaaaase, as it's actually educational apps about children!). Well, I found those apps by accident and as I kept searching for more stuff I bumped upon geology facts, volcanoes, earthquakes and all those old loves. I started reading more about tsunamis, the Ocean and its depths, found a few videos about marine life and much much more. All in all, I had a very busy summer!
Most videos dealt with tsunamis and I even watched clips from silly movies about earthquakes. And soon this stuff started to appear in my dreams. But this wasn't what I wanted it to be. I returned to my childhood, where I would see a huge tsunami coming towards me and not crushing upon me. I, even, once saw a dream where tsunamis were becoming frozen, just like the Frozen Wave in Antarctica (you can search for it on the Internet). And I was hoping I was letting those waves crush upon me, but nothing could be done. And once again I had this same fear that I used to have 10 years ago!
However, this morning things changed. I had a dream where I was at a beach and next to us there were huge icebergs. They were collapsing in the sea and as a result were creating mega-tsunamis (thus higher that 100 metres!). But this time they used to crush, although they were passing above me and didn't touch me at all. It was like a sheet covering me. And for the first time, I felt that something warm was covering me. However, in the end I became disappointed, as I realised that the "blue sea" was withdrawing to a celing, as it was a plastic illusion. I was found at my parents' bedroom in Cefalonia and the real sea was found under my parents' bed.
Well, of course, this was a crazy dream, but it WAS an Ocean Dream and I was hoping so long that I could see a similar one. Ok, then, time's up and I have to go to the rehearsal, so I have to end this post. See you soon <3
Notes: 1) If you want to know about those Universe and evolution apps, you can either text me on Facebook [Eireen Antypa] or comment.
2) I recently read that tsunamis aren't always necessarily huge in height, but for sure they have a tremendous mass and volumes. So, don't believe all this Hollywood rubbish that show a wave that is swallowing up the whole city, like the following link. http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Tsunami.jpg
Well, I woke up this morning with a wide smile on my face. For about a year and a half, I was struggling to have an Ocean Dream in my sleep and by surprise today I did! But let's see what an Ocean Dream is. The story goes back about 15 years ago, on Boxing Day, 2003, when I was 5 years old. That day was a disaster for Indonesia, as a huge tsunami destroyed the cities and even reached the coasts of India. At that time, I couldn't understand how fatal this disaster had and the impact on people's lives, as I was too young. So, I was mesmerised to know that after a huge earthquake, a huge wave can emerge from the sea. Children always find huge things wonderful. Whatsoever, my heart was always on the sea, as I could swim from a very early age.
Since that time, my dream was to become an earthquake scientist and later be occupied with the study of the tsunamis. And indeed, I started telling people that when I grew up I was going to study geology! (Btw geology is really cool, even though I'm studying a completely different subject now). After this tsunami, I started watching tsunami videos and photos on the Internet in my dad's computer. And it was then, when those things started to appear in my dreams. At first, they used to be nightmares. I was sitting on a beach and I could see a huge wave appearing on the sea, about to swallow me up. I was really scared by that and I was starting to run away.
This dream kept going for years and years until I went to High School. But when a nightmare never stops and we can't even stop it, we can find a way to alter it and make it be a beautiful dream. And this is how I believe that dreams work. Thus I decided to let the waves crush upon me and I would hold my breath, so water wouldn't come to my lungs. Actually, this is something I used to do when I would go to a beach in Cefalonia, where waves would be rather high. I would tuck myself underneath the surface and feel the warmness of the sea. I tried this on my dreams. And this was the most beautiful feeling I ever had. It was like I was in a warm home. I knew I was underwater and the waves were crushing on me above. And the most wonderful on that is that nothing seemed like real life where you can't hold your breath long underwater. In my dreams I could stay for hours under the sea, without a problem, like I were a fish!
I decided to call that my Ocean Dream and many of my poems contain that phrase and refer exactly to that feeling, which I wish I could have every night in my dreams. During the second semester of my studies, I was learning a lot about the Romantic era (I was born for that xD) and I used to read a lot Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron etc. There was a poem that had striken me and I read it about 4-5 times: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It's all about shipwrecks, dark night, full moon, incomplete love, wanderers etc. And one night I had the last Ocean Dream of mine. I wouldn't like to repeat myself here, because I know I have written about it in the Poetry post.
My last dream was one year and a half ago, and since then I didn't have any other Ocean Dream. However, this summer I downloaded some apps on my phone, where you could build the Universe from scratch, all about evolution etc. (Please DON'T assume that this has to do with creationism, pleaaaase, as it's actually educational apps about children!). Well, I found those apps by accident and as I kept searching for more stuff I bumped upon geology facts, volcanoes, earthquakes and all those old loves. I started reading more about tsunamis, the Ocean and its depths, found a few videos about marine life and much much more. All in all, I had a very busy summer!
Most videos dealt with tsunamis and I even watched clips from silly movies about earthquakes. And soon this stuff started to appear in my dreams. But this wasn't what I wanted it to be. I returned to my childhood, where I would see a huge tsunami coming towards me and not crushing upon me. I, even, once saw a dream where tsunamis were becoming frozen, just like the Frozen Wave in Antarctica (you can search for it on the Internet). And I was hoping I was letting those waves crush upon me, but nothing could be done. And once again I had this same fear that I used to have 10 years ago!
However, this morning things changed. I had a dream where I was at a beach and next to us there were huge icebergs. They were collapsing in the sea and as a result were creating mega-tsunamis (thus higher that 100 metres!). But this time they used to crush, although they were passing above me and didn't touch me at all. It was like a sheet covering me. And for the first time, I felt that something warm was covering me. However, in the end I became disappointed, as I realised that the "blue sea" was withdrawing to a celing, as it was a plastic illusion. I was found at my parents' bedroom in Cefalonia and the real sea was found under my parents' bed.
Well, of course, this was a crazy dream, but it WAS an Ocean Dream and I was hoping so long that I could see a similar one. Ok, then, time's up and I have to go to the rehearsal, so I have to end this post. See you soon <3
Notes: 1) If you want to know about those Universe and evolution apps, you can either text me on Facebook [Eireen Antypa] or comment.
2) I recently read that tsunamis aren't always necessarily huge in height, but for sure they have a tremendous mass and volumes. So, don't believe all this Hollywood rubbish that show a wave that is swallowing up the whole city, like the following link. http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Tsunami.jpg
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