Skunk Dreams

After reading a little bit into this story, i was so confused. Everything seemed so random and disjointed. When i finished it however, everything made it a lot more sense. It's just not one of those stories that's super straightforward; it's incredibly descriptive and paints an execellent picture for the reader, but you have to be able to make sense of what is being described to you and how it applies to the story. "Skunk Dreams" addressed a couple interesting and complex concepts that really make you wonder. I've always been fascinated by dreaming, and it's something many people find themselves wondering about. It mentions a theory that that dreams are actually a seperate dimension, and because of that the standards by which we live wouldn't apply. That's something pretty deep and not easy to wrap your head around, but if you really think it makes sense. This idea was brought up in the story by the women expressing her curiousity in what do skunks, dream about. What if they dream about some of the same things we as people do? Humans have some very strange dreams; we dream about things that would never happen in reality. For example, people cant fly or be invisible, but in our dreams we can do those things, we can do almost anything. So for animals I'm sure it's the same. Another idea the story addresses is a person dreaming about someone or something, a place or a situation, and then find that they end up coming across whatever they happened to dream about later in their life. The woman in the story had this happen. She dreamt about a place she came across years later. You wonder how your mind could paint a perfect picture of a place you have never seen and then at some point in your life you come across that place. It's crazy to think about. The last concept that i found very interesting was how obsticles and desire relate to each other. Does desire create obsticles? Or do obsticles create desire? I sat and thought about it for awhile and came to the conclusion that it can happen either way; it just depends on the situation.