Fever Dreams

COVID lockdown was wild. I had just been laid off and I lived on a little acreage outside of Bay City where I saw almost no one for weeks at a time. I went from constant stimulation to none at all. This went on for a while and the weirdest thing started to happen.

Every night I went to bed, I would have vivid lucid dreams walking endless sidewalks, malls, hallways and trails. If I had a nightmare, I would outrun it and walk elsewhere in the scenery of my mind. I created a collage of the past thirty years of my life and moved through it. Every night.

When I woke up I always felt disappointed. Like someone pulled the plug on a video game I was playing before I could hit "save". Seeing as how they were only dreams, there was nothing permanent about them.  

The dreams have long stopped. I've never experienced anything like them since.

But they have made me look at the world in a completely different way, and I've been chasing that feeling with a camera in hand ever since: