"Imagine a place where you can always escape to
An island off the coast of nowhere
A new destination of your own creation
Just waiting till you choose to go there"
These are the beginning lyrics to the song Welcome to Mystery by the Plain White T's off of their new album, Wonders of the Younger, and I think that it describes perfectly what Wonderland really is, to me anyway.
You see, I don't remember my dreams. Sure, every once in a while I'll remember something I "dreamt" about for a minute or so but that's it. I can go for weeks, even months, at a time without remembering a single thing from that so-called "dream-land". That's why I always laugh when people tell me "Sweet dreams" or something of the sort when I go to bed. Their dreams may be sweet, or sometimes not so sweet, but mine? Mine are absent.
As some of you may, or may not, know, Alice in Wonderland is one of my slight obsessions. Why? Because things are not always as they seem in wonderland, such as in real life. People can be fake and lie to you or stab your back just when you trust them the most, however, in Wonderland, just as in a dream, YOU control what happens, or you think you can as Alice does.
You can dream up the unthinkable and do what might be considered impossible, but to you, it's possible and that's what matters.
One of my favorite quotes from this movie is said by Alice Kingsley and I find it to be very true.
"Time can be funny in dreams."
Anything can happen in a short amount of time, or a long amount. Think about it, do you really know where a dream starts, or how long it's been going for? The only real way to know when one ends is when you wake up from it.
As we grow older, we often forget to use that little thing some refer to as imagination, even though, when we were younger we were taught to use it all the time, and we did use it. From imaginary friends to make believe worlds, even a simple game of Cops and Robbers required a bit of imaginary belief. So why did we ever stop using it?
Wonderland is an amazing place full of amazing possibilities. It's just waiting for one to discover it.
Wonderland, is my dream land.
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