September 29, 2025
If I’m being honest, I’m afraid to have a real dream while I’m sleeping about an alligator riding a unicorn. Yes, that’s exactly how my brain served it up. In this dream, they’re chasing a little red wagon full of… something. I never know what, because the wagon is always just far enough away that I can’t see inside. And then, because dream logic is dream logic, the alligator sprouts wings and flies away like a feathered reptilian Pegasus.
The part that scares me isn’t the alligator, the unicorn, or even the wagon. It’s the fact that my subconscious apparently thinks this is a perfectly reasonable storyline. If my mind can create that, what other bizarre, borderline nightmare fuel is hiding in the attic of my imagination?
But here’s the truth: dreams, whether waking or sleeping, aren’t meant to be safe. They push us past the comfortable edges of our imagination. Sometimes they inspire us. Sometimes they scare us. And sometimes they make us laugh out loud when we try to explain them to someone else.
Maybe that’s the lesson here: the dreams we’re afraid to have are the ones that remind us we’re still alive, still creative, still capable of surprise. If you can dream of an alligator riding a unicorn, maybe you can also dream of writing a book, starting a business, or living a life you’ve secretly wanted but never dared to imagine.
So today, I’m leaning into the weirdness. Because even if I never fully understand what’s in that little red wagon, I know that avoiding strange dreams only limits me. And fear doesn’t deserve that kind of power.
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