So long Batman; farewell
Sometimes I have dreams and am forever perplexed as to what they actually mean and where they come from. I had one such dream around four or five years ago. In this dream, I was the son of none other than Batman. Although I wasn’t sure how, I became aware that Batman had died and I began to cry. I have experienced many dreams in which I am crying before, and they are usually very similar.
When Batman died I cried and I cried and I couldn’t stop. The feeling of crying was a strange sensation, because it was so real. I had no control over it and it took over my entire existence. It was as if I had been enveloped in the feelings of sadness that trigger crying and that are its very essence in the first place. The tears were streaming down my cheeks and they would not stop coming.
I suspect that these dreams of continuous crying must be related. Sometimes you just need a good cry, so maybe if you don’t cry enough in the real world your mind and body can achieve the same vent expulsion of emotion in a dream. The fact that I was Batman’s son only adds to the strangeness.
A dream of being dead
One of the most vivid dreams I can remember from my childhood was one in which I died. I was on earth, but I was dead, and I knew I was dead. I had no memory of how I had died, or what had happened, but I was dead and was content with that fact. I had no body but I could see as if I were looking out through my own eyes. I just existed and at that moment I was happy. I began to move upwards, away from the earth, traveling higher and higher. I left the earth behind and was traveling through space towards the finale of my existence. I went past stars and planets, into a darkness right to the edge of the universe. At the edge I was still able to see, but there was nothing to see. There was just emptiness, with no people, no sound, and no colors or shapes. I was dead and was satisfied that this was what death was like.
After this dream I stopped being so afraid of death for awhile because, to me, I had an understanding of death that nobody else had ever seen. It was a calming dream that I will never forget.