One night I woke up and I couldn’t tell if I was awake, or if I was sleepwalking, nothing quite made sense, and the feeling of detachment that I had been feeling became visual. I saw myself as if my eyes had left my body. When I awoke the next morning I was still unsure if what I was experiencing was reality. I felt alone that day, unsure of what I saw the night before, unsure of it had even happened or if it was a dream.
False awakenings are defined as a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep. What might the meaning behind the dream be? Are they based directly on what is happening in our conscious lives or are they just happenings of our imagination? When we dream are we so separated from our conscious self that our brains escape normal senses of time and space to let themselves create something of reality that we cannot create within reality? These ideas are what I used to frame these images.
