Weird dreams, Weird Art and Portals

This title sounds like a lot, but its what is on my mind this morning. I expressed some of what’s behind the above painting in my product post on the print listings, but wanted to talk about it more. I’ve always had weird dreams. I know I’m on a few psychotropic drugs and I know that can have an impact, but even the few weeks I was tapering off or not taking any at all, the weird dreams persisted.

Some of these are a combination of weird and bizarre yet highly lucid and realistic. I know people who do astral projection to current places and such. But I’m not sure on astral projecting to other dimensions or alternate universes. Some of these dreams feel like alternate time lines, like how things in my life have gone or are going in other places, though none of those are good. As awful as this timeline is for the world in general, I have to say for my personal life things are really good.

That said it doesn’t make the whole thing any less fascinating. I haven’t done any real research into this, so I won’t post any studies or real facts here just my own experiences. One dream I had last night was going back to visit my old Junior High school where I first played football and visiting their football practices.

Yet things had changed so much. I clearly didn’t know anyone there as I haven’t lived there in almost 20 years. Also my old Junior high isn’t even functional anymore, they built a newer and bigger one and I’m not even sure if that building is still standing or in any kind of use.

In the dream, the kids weren’t just doing football practice but working with social workers on their mental health and things. That was an improvement over when I played, though as I was walking around someone came up and yelled at me. I did see some people from my past who recognized me but I didn’t recognize them. Some were very happy to see me, others weren’t nice at all. The whole thing was strange.

I had a second dream when I got “home” from this one in this reality. I don’t want to go into it on here because it involves a lot of personal stuff and back story about my family I don’t care to make public. I try to be transparent, but some things I don’t care to rehash in an open setting. That said, the dream ended with my crying heavily, then I woke up. I wasn’t crying in reality, just where ever this was. I will say it was all very realistic yet strange. I don’t know what to make of it all. I know more science minded people say dreams are just manifestations of fears, worries and past experiences. That may be some of it, but I honestly think there is more to it than that.

There is so much about our brains alone that science doesn’t understand. I can’t imagine we understand anything close to the whole universe. And this isn’t the first time I’ve had these. I’ve had other ones before and some were really out there, but others really hit home and were very realistic. I think I’m traveling somewhere other than here where I’m seeing these things.

The digital painting I posted with this blog was in part of the dream as I was half awake. I’ve seen similar things before, a lot of my art comes from my dreams and visions. This image appeared to be some kind of gateway. I don’t know what each symbol means including the giant M. I just painted it as I saw it. Maybe one of you has an idea. Let me know in the comments or email if you have ever experienced anything like this or if I may be onto something. Maybe I’m also losing my mind, that wouldn’t be the first time! Leave a comment to share your thoughts and check out the rest of my art in the process and thank you for reading!