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Tag Archives: Dreams
Improv Exercises
A dream I had the other night: I was waiting outside a friend’s apartment for her the to get home, even though I didn’t recognize this particular apartment complex at all. The only reason I knew it was hers is … Continue reading
“I’m joining the circus/I’m running away/The people I won’t know/The places I won’t stay”
“Everything has changed… Absolutely nothing’s changed.” I sometimes wonder how others measure their lives. Many become parents and measure through their children, some use a corporate ladder as their meter stick, some stack accolades. I don’t know. I like words. … Continue reading
“It’s funny / because it’s not”
My dreams are so vivid, so passionate. How many times in the past year or so have I woken myself up because I was laughing or crying or screaming in my dreams? It’s a lot. I’ve chronicled many of them … Continue reading
“I was angry when I met you / I think I’m angry still”
I am a wreck. I’ve damaged both of my thumbs, and I only have two. I’m sleeping more, eating more; it’s clearly depression, the same that had me sleeping little and eating less a few months ago. Oh, you fickle … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreams, major depression, physical symptoms of depression, sleep patterns
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“A brave new world of gods and monsters…”
It seems worth mentioning that the dream I had the night prior also involved something I had a close relationship to that tried to kill me: I had created a man, à la Frankenstein. It was tall and very muscular, but lithe. … Continue reading
In my Dreams, even those who Love me try to Kill me
A moment from a dream I had last night… Continue reading
“letters from further away”
Here we are the precipice of a new year. 2018. It seems like something from a sci-fi novel, but these days the world seems more backwards and antiquated than ever. I, in turn, cling to the past tightly, myself. I’m … Continue reading
“feels like I’m slipping/into a dream within a dream”
I am exhausted. I slept for over eight hours, but I had so many detailed and terrifying dreams that I feel I’ve lived several hard and soul-crushing lives. I’ll try to recount them as best as I can. In the … Continue reading
“you say ‘take this’/’this medicine; it’s just what you deserve'”
Wherein I open my heart and let the monster out… Continue reading
“She said she liked the way I felt / and breaking down my boundaries…”
Wherein I say the unthinkable but ask us to think about it… Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Uncategorized
Tagged death, Dreams, major depression, Sadness, Too Much Thinking
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Eric McClanahan 