The Book of Ashes

Todays lesson is on interpretation 9:33AM

""I run naked in my dreams,
I am invincible or so it seems.
But then I wake to the real world and so I indulge in the virtual.""

- ICQ details of Ashes

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Todays lesson, I guess is on interpretation. I always hated when in English class the teacher would say, so what does this poem mean? The thing is, it doesn't always have to mean anything. When I had to write poems I choose words that sounded cool and rhymed. The meaning was, these words are the coolest I can think of that rhyme. Now I sometimes put a little feeling and emotion into it, depending on how I feel. Other times I write what happened or whats on my mind, trying to make it sound as cool as possible, ignoring whether it makes sense or not or whether it has any meaning.

Let us interpret the words above though. I wrote them so I can make up what they mean and so by my word I say they mean thus...

The first two lines, I run naked in my dreams, I am invincible or so it seems, were written to sound cool, and I believe that fact has been achieved. But when you delve a little deeper you begin to see more meaning. In my dreams I am naked (or free), so I am talking about having no restrictions, I am day dreaming about being free of all inhibitions or restrictions. Also I am invincible, not to be taken literally. It is more likely to mean I can do things right in my dreams, so I am dreaming of being free and perfect. I can't say or do the wrong thing like I do in real life. I am day dreaming about how I would have done things right if I had the chance over and if everything went smoothly.

The next two lines, But then I wake to the real world and so I indulge in the virtual, were also written to try and sound cool, but don't rhyme so aren't quite as cool. They are more to topic. The waking to the real world bit is realising my own faults, that I am not perfect and I don't act like I do when I day dream. The indulge in the virtual was put on to refer to emersing ones life in computers to take up time but could be interpretted otherwise. It could mean I return to the day dreaming because it is better than real life, but thats not really true. I'm a realist and accept my faults and deal with them, more its just put there to sound cool and doesn't apply to me sooo much. So whadya reckon? Good analysis of my own writing? Maybe, I'm sure some people are gleaming a few interesting perceptions of me from all these diary entries I've been writing. It would be interesting to know what they were.