She Comes to Me in Dreams

From the Great Lake Swimmers, here is a really happy, genuine song that sings of love and dreams and embodies the happiness of pre-summer- that we are hopefully all experiencing on this gorgeous Saturday. You can see how deeply they are feeling the music they are playing, how authentic they are. They close their eyes and let it flow through them. It's almost as if they are dreaming while playing!

Check out their website (linked above) for tour dates and album information. If you dig this song, you will love their others--

Dexter's Darkness

Here is an exerpt from the first book in the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay (yes, this is the same character who inspired the Dexter from the Showtime series, although the novels came first and are quite different in various ways). This is a scene from the first book in the series (ironically?) called Darkly Dreaming Dexter, in which Dexter catches himself having dreamed:

Hello, dear boy, so good to have you back. But where on earth have you been?

That, of course, was the question. I have spent most of my life untroubled by dreams, and for that matter, hallucinations. No visions of the Apocalypse for me; no troubling Jungian icons burbling up from my subconscious, no mysterious recurring images drifting through the history of my unconsciousness. Nothing ever goes bump in Dexter's night. When I go to sleep, all of me sleeps.

So what had just happened? Why were these pictures appearing to me?

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad
so please, please, please please let me get what I want this time...

Haven't had a dream in a long time.
See, the life I've had can make a good man bad
so, for once in my life, let me get what I want,
Lord knows, it would be the first time.
Lord knows, it would be the first time...

"Kathleen"

It's plain to see the sun won't shine today
But I ain't in the mood for sunshine anyway
Maybe I'll go insane
I got to stop the pain
Or maybe I'll go down to see Kathleen.

A swallow comes and tells me of her dreams
She says she'd like to know just what they mean.
I feel like I could die
as I watch her flying by
Ride the north wind down to see Kathleen.

Stars hang high above, the oceans roar
the moon is come to lead me to her door
There's crystal across the sand
And waves, they take my hand.
Soon I'm gonna see my sweet Kathleen.

Soon I'm gonna see my sweet Kathleen.

Who will take my dreams away?

-Marianne Faithfull

Dreams of those with Down Syndrome

A video from the National Down Syndrome Society...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-P4t2jR1g

"Love You More," Trespassers William

"All of my songs are for you, all of my songs are sad. Whenever you wake at night, you say that all of your dreams are bad... Give me your tightest arm, give me an 'I love you,' I'll stay awake all night and blow your darker thoughts far from you."

Sound advice from Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowliness. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

-Mark Twain

Exerpt from Sea Glass

"What do you dream about, Quillen McDermott?"
The question is so unexpected and so direct that for a moment McDermott cannot answer.
"No fair thinking about it," she says. "You have to answer right away."
"Whose rules are these?" he asks, stalling for time.
"My rules, of course." She smiles, crinkling the few wrinkles at the sides of her eyes.
"Don't remember my dreams," he says.
"I don't believe you."
"Why not?"
"I think you're a deep one."

-Sea Glass, by Anita Shreve

From the University of North Dakota

Dedication from The Passage

The dedication from Justin Cronin's 2010 novel, The Passage, is simple. It reads "For my children. No bad dreams."

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."



Robert Kiyosaki

Keep Though Thy Dreams!

Keep though Thy dreams! The tissue of all wings is woven first of them. 
Dreams are such precious and imperishable things. -Anon

While they Last

"Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?"
-Henry Havelock Ellis, British Sexologist, Physician and Social Reformer