Flying dreams

Above: 20 minute doodle in Corel Painter IX using the Chalk, Digital Watercolour and Croquil brushes. It started out as a flying picture, but started falling instead. At least it's not as obviously a freefall as this similar illustration I did last year.

I had trouble sleeping last night and am pretty tired today. I started thinking about dreams this morning. Does anyone out there still have flying dreams? Y'know, the dreams where you learn to fly or you're able to fly? I used to have those all the time when I was a child. Occasionally they'd end with me plummeting to the ground (and waking up), but the flying made the fall worth it.

Does the fact that I don't dream about flying anymore mean something? More often, I tend to have stressful dreams...I'm either running from someone or something, I'm late or have forgotten something important, or exaggerating something that's been stressing me in waking life. Or stupid, boring dreams: shopping in a grocery store, inane conversations, etc.

When I was a teenager, I remember being fascinated by the whole dreaming process and researched it extensively. I remember being able to train myself to dream about something specifically by focusing on it just as I drifted off to sleep. I'm not sure if I'd be able to do that now (I fall asleep VERY quickly after going to bed) but I'm going to give it a shot.

I want to dream about flying again.

Busy week. Nearly finished my novel revisions, but I also have a number of illustrations due for a client by the end of the week.

Comic I recently did for Inkygirl:




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