Brett McLoughlin
For ages, man thought of dreams as divine connection,
but if dreams are abstract,
so impossibly strange,
what could they mean?
Dancing in space,
reading in a chair,
floating in the ocean,
training a raccoon to fly,
wearing animal-shaped hats–
Meaningful?
Perhaps the ancients never read a novel,
or encountered a raccoon.
Their imaginations, limited
only to what they had seen,
could not possibly fathom space or salsa dancing.
People are only a collection
of their experiences.
Maybe these hallucinations do have meaning;
signaling, we have experienced the unthinkable,
and our imaginations are no longer limited
because we are no longer limited
to our imaginations.
Meaning of a Dream
Meaning of a Dream
Meaning of a Dream
LOYOLA
BLAKEFIELD
LITARTMAG
2014
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