Floating through my brain...

I get asked pretty often about what goes on in my brain and I must be the first to admit that at times, not even I am certain. Thoughts and ideas seem to float freely from one side to the other and back again. Sometimes I can catch them and hold onto them long enough to actually jot them down. Other times, half sentences get spoken as the words spew forth from my mouth in an attempt to say something...oftentimes resulting in me "umming" as I search for the remainder of the sentence as quizzical eyes stare at me. My problem is that my brain is so overactive that it seems like it never stops. Even in my sleep, a thought will wake me up until I can write it down. It seems like no matter how exhausted I am, my brain just won't shut down. Frustrating is what it is.

What I find interesting is that my dreams are very vivid. I heard once that many people dream in black and white...is this true? I don't recall EVER having a black and white dream. My dreams are so true to life, so vivid, and so real that sometimes the dream me is aware that it's a dream. Even then my thoughts come into play. It's so weird. All of my senses work in my dream worlds, sight, sound, smell, everything. At times, I wake up actually knowing what something feels like even though I've never touched it before. I can describe tastes even though I've never eaten it before. I tell you, over-activity at its' finest.

So what is my point, today? Do I even have one? Not really so much. A pointless ramble to add to the masses. A purging of my brain in the hopes that it will calm down. To that, I say HA! Right now, I'm working on finishing up a story I've been working on for a few years so not only do I have to deal with the randomness of my thoughts, I also have to deal with my characters "talking" to me. I'll be in the middle of a homework paper and one character knocks on my brain and says "Hey, I've got something to say, grab your pen." The next character will then kick the other side of my brain and holler at me "I hate my hair, can you make it longer?" And somewhere in there I have to sleep....*sigh*.