This time of year the one thing that keeps me "sane" is sleep. It restores some perspective; it heals some aching bones/joints/muscles; it helps the mind to refocus.
Dreams don't resound as much for me this time of year as they do in the winter, or when the semester is "fresh" on my schedule, or when someone is "on my mind." When my mind is very active during the day -- I dream very "actively" at night, but usually unrelated to the things of the day except in the most general of ways. Dreams help to give me feelings of: nostalgia, comfort, peace, happiness revisited, coping with things, and even sadness "deja vu." Dreams help to "solve problems" even though the problems in the dreams are not the same as current problems in life.
Dreams point to things -- to unresolved issues, to people come back into one's life, to the past as future (and the future as past).
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