in the dark, i am scared

I have a friend. Her name is Annely. I like to call her other things like Pumpkin-Head and Andalucia. Anyhow, my Estonian friend is getting married in less than 20 days [dont remember the actual count- sorry, dear]. On her blog this evening, she ended with:

And may all your dreams become true! (Only the good ones, of course!)

And I started thinking about dreams. How much control do we have over our dreams? Do our dreams that come during our sleep affect our life-goal-type dreams? How much do people in our lives affect our dreams? ... what is a dream?

I have quite disturbing dreams. And I find that when I talk about them, I have an easier time going to sleep at night. Its hard to go to bed- not knowing what images will come to haunt your sleep. I study a lot of depressing things [I mean, come on, I'm a student of history!] and I think these readings and videos affect my subconscious thoughts much more than I had anticipated. But how can this be helped? Its my field of interest- one of the few topics I actually LIKE to dive into- but I dont want to be afraid of the dark and the sleep and the dreams.

So, Annely, thank you for your well-wishes. Im glad you arent wishing my bad dreams on me as well as my good ones. Love you.

ps: trees are cool