I can’t remember a thing

I had a dream, that I remember from almost a year ago. Its funny that I remember this dream because it has to do with me forgetting things.

In the dream I am in a school like auditorium, I am on the stage overlooking a packed crowd of people. On the right hand wall is a projector screen that shows different pictures, I believe that they are connected to a poem that I have written. When I look at the picture I feel as if I should remember something but I just cannot. I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I cannot remember what I wrote.

I realize that I am spending too much time staring at the picture and I feel nervous because I fear that people will think me a fraud and accuse me of not actually writing the poem. Someone from the crowd stands up and starts reciting the words out loud slowly giving me chance to jump in an take over. The words sounded familiar to me and I am glad for this person speaking but I cannot pick up.

The person pauses every so often looking at me eagerly and I know that they can tell I am almost clueless. The picture changes and again everyone looks at me eagerly, and again the person standing in the crowd recites my poem to me. This happens for two poems until someone else in the crowd jumps up and cries out that I am a fraud. I remember the person who had helped me looking at me sadly and helplessly.

I woke up.

I do believe in dreams to a certain degree. I feel as if they can be warnings or just your mind releasing its inner most feelings. Either case this dream is interesting to me because I cant remember poems that I wrote yesterday. Honest. I hate when I write a letter or poem to a girl and she makes a comment about something I said, and I cannot comment back as well as I should because I have forgotten what I said. I have just learned to keep a spare copy of the poem.

However I think the dream may be warning me that I should take more time to remember the things that I write, or one day someone may ask me to recite a poem on the spot and I will embarrass myself.