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Sometimes I dream that you don't love me any more.
 I wake myself up by crying.
I open my eyes slowly and remember that it's true.
Sometimes I dream that all my teeth are  being pulled out.
 I wake myself up by screaming.
I open my eyes slowly and remember that it's not true. 
I still have a beautiful smile.
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when I dream I feel the warmth of a lovers touch, 
when I awake I'm inspired to find a lover
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not so much an inspiration, but a hint: 
did you try to get some inspiration 
from The Dreamtime? 
Maybe you want to check out: 
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/
My dreams and thoughts are around 
the conflicts of opposites and contrasts.

Dark v Light
Good v Evil
Sweet v Sour 
Left v Right 
Front v Back
Right v Wrong
Rich v Poor
Fat v Thin


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"Just off the top of my head then", he said as she walked before him.  Jealousy consumed his soul as he watched her lightly footstep her way around him, a smile on her face and a dagger in her tongue.
There are never any warnings.  It just happens and there's nothing you can do about it.  Years pass in the blink of an eye and most killers never intend to... it just happens.  Pain, yes.  Domination, certainly.  But death, that was never on the menu.  But today we are a la carte.  This time she's gone too far.  One too many flirts over the bar with the new barman.  One too many times out with her friends but without her knickers.  One too many stories she invented just to arouse him.  If this is a game she's trying desperately to lose by default.  Do you want me to hurt you?
The game always ends and no-one ever wins.  In fact, like global-thermo-nuclear-war the only way to win is not to play - but let the politicians play.
Years pass in the blink of an eye and most killers never intend to... it just sort of happens that way.
 


It's like a bottle of carbonated water
if you keep shaking it up, it loses its fizz
if you keep being trampled on you learn helplessness
you are left with a very simple, non reactive, transparent, still product
I bet that if you were able to watch somebody else's dream through a monitor or televsion screen the images wouldn't actually look like what they are supposed to be.  For example if you saw one of your friends in a dream your mind wouldn't be able to replicate every single feature of that person which makes them who they are.  I believe that we probably recieve images that represent our friends for example but wouldn't actually look accurate if you were to see them during consciousness.
Spiral staircase,
No grip, no rail
Welcome to the hot place
No energy for the race
To claim our space
No air to breathe in to exhale.

  
Losing myself, inside myself
who am I supposed to be today?
Am I him, him, him, or him?
once again i have been lead astray
I know who i want to be
who i want to be with
but everytime i feel this way
i feel like i'm going numb
that this cold sensation
folds me up and is here to stay
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I am currently interested in the sheer temporal-ness of dance.  The fact that is merely exists for the moment and then becomes a memory, or a quick time file- in this case, is sort of unsettling to me. 

You can train for hours and hours and years and years, honing your body to expressive perfection, and during this time - even in your physical peak- it takes an hour or so to truly tune your instrument.  How does that make you feel?  I remember getting jealous when I was in college while I watched my boyfriend easily share his musical talents with friends, while I required the right kind of clothes, a particluar floor-sprung preferably, and mostly the time to warm up. 

As a dancer, I sometimes feel mute; only truly vocal when I am verging on fatigue and wrought with sweat do I experience a sort of nirvanah that quickly flees.
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In my dream I was a bag of cement... 
then it rained.
Can you dance this?
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flying off tops of dressing tables and sewing machines.
mystic castles, merlins and unicorn filled fantasy images are my favourite and most peaceful.
people from my past.
ice water shoots that never end.
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Let your quiet mind listen and absorb Pythagoras
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Infinite possibilities
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Two very different poems; both dreams (the first one also a day-dream) of lost loved ones; both, although the person's presence is strongly there, with the strange lack of contact or communication which can only happen in dreams.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore;
And there I shut her wild, wild eyes 
With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dreamed - Ah! Woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dreamed 
On the cold hill's side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cried - "La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!"

I saw their starved lips in the gloam
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here 
On the cold hill's side.

And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
(John Keats)
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In the dusky path of a dream I went to seek the love 
who was mine in a former life.

Her house stood at the end of a desolate street.
In the evening breeze her pet peacock sat drowsing on its 
perch, and the pigeons were silent in their corner.

She set her lamp down by the portal and stood before me.
She raised her large eyes to my face and mutely asked, "Are
 you well, my friend?"
I tried to answer, but our language had been lost and forgotten.

I thought and thought; our names would not come to my mind.
Tears shone in her eyes.  She held up her right hand to me. 
I took it and stood silent.

One lamp had flickered in the evening breeze and died.
(Rabindranath Tagore)
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be patient 
suspended in your skeleton
clear your mind of need
listen inside
your fluids flowing deep 
into billions of cells
hear the call of your vessel
its language of vicera
repairing the daily wears
be patient
enough to dream nothing
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walking softly through the clouds there not easy to walk on so you keep sinking and have to pull yourself up again and again the mood is soft and peaceful every where is white. the movements are extended yet soft. suddenly the sun appears and as the yellow gradually overtakes the white the movements become strong as if the sun is giving away its energy everything becomes more and more frantic. the sun now burning at the dancer they try to escape forcing away the suns energy and through movements of trust and counterbalence they escape back to the safeness of the white. exchausted from the fight they lye down on the crisp clounds and sleep
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I have five fingers to say
five fingers to give into your grace.
First when I was apart from you this world did not exist nor any other.
Second whatever I was looking for was always you. 
Third why did I ever learn to count to three
Fourth
my cornfield is burning 
Fifth
this finger stands for rabia and this is for someone else. 
Is there a difference? 
Are these words or tears?
Is weeping speech?
What shall I do my love?
So he speaks and everyone around begins to cry with him laughing crazily moaning in the spreading union of lover and beloved.
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dreams --
walking on clouds
clouds --
beautiful snow landscapes
When I dream I feel as if I am watching a movie of myself.  I can see things happening yet I have no control over my actions.  I often feel as if I am moving in slow motion as if Im walking through water.I can see this feeling being used with a section of movement where the movements are trying to happen but an unseen force is preventing them from occouring.
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