For as long as I can remember, there’s been a dream—a recurring vision that haunted my sleep throughout my childhood. It’s always the same: I am a small child, standing at the edge of the sea, and a massive wave is rising, crashing toward me. The feeling is unmistakable—a mix of awe and fear, so tangible that I would wake up breathless in the middle of the night, heart pounding, the image burned into my mind.
It wasn’t only at night. There were moments during the day when, closing my eyes, I would see it again: that towering wall of water, unstoppable, majestic, terrifying. For years, this dream returned to me like an echo, as if it had something to say that I couldn’t quite grasp.
I haven’t had the dream in a long time, but the memory of it is still vivid, as if it left an imprint deep inside. Today, out of curiosity and a desire to revisit that strange piece of my past, I tried to recreate the dream visually using KlingAi. And it was uncanny—how close the result came to what I used to see, down to the vastness of the sea and the smallness of the child standing before it. Sometimes, in the dream, I don’t even see myself—just the wave, coming, always coming.
It makes me wonder: why do we dream like this? Why do some dreams recur, holding us in their grip for years? What are they trying to tell us, if anything at all? I know many of you have probably had your own recurring dreams, and I’d love to hear about them. What stays with you from your inner world?
Dreams are such a mystery—like messages sent in a language we don’t fully understand.
3 responses to “The Wave that Keeps Returning ~”
If only we could access our dreams willingly. I sometimes dream of people long gone: my parents, my sister… What strikes me is their voice in the dream. The exact same voice… Where is that stored?
(Good thing we can’t access dreams. We’d spend our entire life dreaming.)
Yes, I don’t know if you have seen this film called ‘until the end of the world’. A very strange film that shows how human get obsessed with the recording their dreams and watching them again and again.
No, I haven’t. Wim Wenders is a great director. I’ll see if I can it somewhere on line… merci.