Thoughts drifting back and forth

The thought of living double lives have fascinated me for some time. After watching the film “The double life of Veronique” I had to sit down and think about how it made me feel. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101765/ . With films like Fight Club, viewers find out that a multiple personality is coming out and the film has a nice clean ending. This film was different because it wasn’t exactly about two people living identical lives or a split personality, but rather someone connecting with another person, almost spiritually, without meeting that person. Although commenting fully on this film would take more than a thought, but rather a full film review, so I’ve decided to write about my thoughts after i watched this film

My first thought circled around a dream i had a few years ago about a girl i’ve never met. She had dark hair, fair complexion, and was about five feet four. I remember finding her in an alley, either behind a bar or in an abandoned loft apartment. Either way the lighting was coming in from above and I could feel wind hitting my shoulder and back. We met, laughed, held each other and kissed, then I walked away. The feeling of being in love or complete was overwhelming and it took me a while to snap out of it in the morning. I remember wanting to see her again in my dreams. Asking to run into her again, almost as if she was real. Almost as if she was somewhere dreaming about me, or maybe we were on another plane of existence not known to us now but will be revealed later or even after our deaths. Although i remember the dream vividly, we did not meet again. Even with trying to lucid dream to get back to her, it never happend.

I believe this kind of connection between something that is real, like reality, and something that is not so tangle, like our dreams, is something that can soothe the soul. The romantic dream between lovers who never met before and will never meet again fills me with questions like what is love, what is reality, and why do we dream.