A Guided Dream

a society of trees
collecting air with me
and I was there
sitting in their patched-in sunlight
some were breathing at the same pace
and you could see it in their sweep of leaves
and some were sinking far beneath me
taking a drink

I tapped in. The wires were the roots and this was the heart. There were veins and pulses. That jarring awakening of another deeper life farther beyond yours, the hair on the back of your neck standing up. There was the white stain of a headlight sun on the backs of my eye lids. It stretched from a circle into a white flat boundless field in front of me and I stepped in. It felt right.

I was there, in the mind's eye of another. But I wasn't, just coursing in through the gentle waves of being. Both sets of eyes closed. I was standing in the blank whiteness of it all, the air was still and the sky was falling around me in a stark dome.

There was an image flashed onto the top of the dome and the sky grew dark around me.
I laid down so that I could look better at the screen.
When I opened my eyes I was looking up and the film was done.

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I want to be able to walk myself into my own dreams
but if I spend all this time in my own subconscious
how will I make it in my real life
there is an itchiness in hypnosis
and my head hurts when I close my eyes
I enter a blankness if I am moving
if I spend my meditating in this way
can I see things clearer
I find the subtleties in things much clearer
if I can look through them with someone else


I don't want to spend all my time sleeping.