{"id":351,"date":"2002-09-08T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2002-09-08T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2002-09-08T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2002-09-08T20:12:10","slug":"perchance-to-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"perchance, to dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am waking from a dream in which I am laying on a warm beach, in a warm breeze, and all around are serene-looking people who glance my way with warm smiles.  The breeze is good.  The sun is hot and the air moves over my skin like a giant fluffy comforter.  The azure waves drape themselves on the white sand and expire with a soothing <i>hussshhhhh<\/i>-sound, willing victims of their passion for the shore.  The air itself seems to glimmer and sparkle brightly like the shining surface of the sea, and I return the smile of a kind-looking man who strides across the sand, lithe and graceful, nearby.&nbsp; Everyone moves with grace in this dream, and there are no couples on this beach, no exclusive groups, just gentle individuals moving about in peace and contentment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The breeze picks up, and some sand blows onto my skin.&nbsp; I consider moving to brush the sand off, but I am too lazy in the warmth.&nbsp; The breeze becomes a wind, and looking around I notice all the peaceful souls have gone somewhere.&nbsp; The sky is getting dark, and I decide I must force myself to move, to try and follow my charming beach companions to wherever they have gone.&nbsp; At the instant I try to sit up my entire body is jolted throughout with a terriffic pain, and the sand now is black, the sky, night.&nbsp; Wind howls and I writhe as the pain engulfs me, my brain throbs, my eyeballs feel as though they are about to explode.&nbsp; My limbs are worthless, flopping about as I squirm like dead things that have been attached maliciously to weigh me down.&nbsp; Though I am already wailing in my mind, I begin to feel the vibrations in my throat as I start to scream.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>My eyes burst open as my voice echoes back to me from the cold black wind.&nbsp; I am naked, in a snowfield, in a blizzard on a black, cold night.&nbsp; I despair my loss of the peace, the warmth, the love and the comfort of the sunny beach as the last remnants of it recede and are extinguished in icy blackness.&nbsp; My scream of pain becomes a cry of rage; how can reality be so completely different than what I thought it was?&nbsp; How could I have been so thoroughly misled?&nbsp; Who did this cruel thing to me?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When I wake I am crying, and my pillow is damp with tears.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am waking from a dream in which I am laying on a warm beach, in a warm breeze, and all around are serene-looking people who glance my way with warm smiles. The breeze is good. The sun is hot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=351\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[541],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}