Blog 2 / / Dream a Little Dream

You see, dreams don't  specifically have to happen when you're sleeping. You can spend your entire day dreaming if you wanted to. The dreams we have at night are generally uncontrollable, random things, which you don't actually remember when you wake up. But what about the dreams we have everyday, about our future, our love, our career, where we want to be in ten years? I spend most of my days living in my head, daydreaming about a million things.

The inspiration for this photo set came from someone I used to dream of. You know, the being in love, thinking a thousand things a day about the future you could have together type thing . On the way to her house, I would pass by this home that at first glace, I could see my next 20 years spent alongside the love of my life, adopting dogs, lake days, pool parties, sledding down the big hill. I wanted to take a picture of it then, as a physical representation of what I was working towards, a visual of hope and safety. Being young and naive, I'm learning things don't always work how we want them to, and that dream feels mostly broken now, and the original house was abandoned and torn down. Life seems to be sending me signals that maybe everything doesn't need to last forever, and some dreams need to be broken.

There are at least 12 coincidences that happen to me everyday. Some small moment that links days together, finding meaning in insignificant things. I mean, it was a big coincidence I met most of the people I'm closest to. I met my best friend while our separate classes were on a bathroom break in middle school. It was a coincidence I ever held her hand, that I've ever fallen in love. I'm not entirely sure what coincidences mean yet, what the meaning is from someone saying exactly what you're thinking out loud before you vocalize it., but I'm starting to think life is a simulation.

Memory can be very dreamlike, especially since we always remember things better than they truly were. Our memories are sort of like little movies of ourselves in our heads, the moments we remember It looks exactly like our dreams do.