A Caffeinated Dream

Rachel Tseng
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

I’m a tea drinker. Despite that, last night I had to work an overnight 8-hr shift that turned into a 9-hr shift and efficient easy fixes called for caffeine to pulse within my bloodstream. I arrived home at 5.30am. After what I would call a frenetic shower, the sun woke up and the moon was about to enter its sleep cycle, while I still had epinephrine raging inside me.

I had a nightmare and then I had a dream.

The nightmare woke me up at 11am. To go back to bed, I proceeded to plug earphones in. Unknowingly, a dream strung along.

I found myself dreaming to “Good For Me” by Above & Beyond and there has never been a piece more stunning, fervent, and mesmerizing as this alleviating composition.

Note: All quotes below are lines from the song. Try listening to it while reading this dream, whose details I only remember in parts.

In this dream, I was happily lost in a giant garden, listening to aforementioned song. My head subconsciously tilted towards the sky as if there was another dream waiting for me. (This was my mind I was creating fairy tales in so of course, there was another dream).

“I know you’re good for me.” (0:45)

Have you ever dreamed of flying? Like truly defying all laws of gravity and letting loose in mid-air? Because this morning, for the first time, I flew. It was brief, but there I was, floating, towards another unknown place. A dream within a dream.

“This feeling inside me, oh it sends me, sky high.” (0:54)

I’ve arrived in a realm called Euphoria and within this domain, a stranger begs me to come home. She reaches her hand out towards me, her palm facing upwards. I can see wrinkles scribbled across them like unfulfilled prayers of a desperate servant of God.

“To be with you, is easy (oh baby).” (1:08)

I accept.
I take her hand and she twirls me. There I am, spinning indefinitely.

“This feeling inside me, oh it sends me…” (1:24)

In this realm, everybody spins yet our mind is still, like the eye of a tornado.
Within the eye, everybody becomes the eye, and we see everything.

“…sky high.” (1:29)

I am light, and I stand upon darkness.

My body, especially my armpits, reek of bliss (this is weird but I remember this part so strongly). This smell lives prevalently throughout this entire experience.

At this point, I don’t know how long I’ve stayed in this kingdom for, but I find myself face-to-face with a path.

There is a beach in this realm and the path takes me there. I’m gravitated towards the waters. Left foot in and it’s cold; right foot in and it’s warm.

“You’re good for me, my baby” (3:20)

I dance and the changes in temperature creates sparks within my body and I am electrifying.

But we all know electricity and water don’t mix. I overestimate the power I hold in this world I thought I crafted, and when waves crash against my sizzling skin, I fall.

I awake to find myself far from home.

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