When words fail

Yo. It appears that I'm back. And by back, I mean "hey look a post".

It Happened Again:

And by it happened again, I mean, I woke up from a dream intent upon capturing it. It's been awhile since that last happened. But the last time, it wasn't visual. It wasn't really a dream. It was all flowing text that my mind could only barely keep up with. But last night, last night was a definite image.

I had a dream that there was some crazy lady in my grandparents garage, and she wouldn't leave. Which, you know, is kind of interesting. But more interesting was her face. Or at least, to my sleep muddled brain that was most interesting. She was a hispanic lady, maybe a young looking mid-50s. She didn't have many wrinkles, but there were traces of her age. I don't remember much of her facial features anymore (I fear I waited too long to write this out) but I do remember the grin. She had a creepy, sadistic type grin on her face in one of the frames of my dream. Just one frame. Mere seconds dream time. But it's stuck with me. It immediately struck me as off. And so it should have, because any time a grin of the face of someone in your dreams reminds your unconscious self of the creepy grin you saw in an anime last week, you know something is off. I can't exactly explain it. Though, believe you me, my brain desperately tried. Which, hours later as I finish this post, sparks a question in my mind.

Am I forever doomed to have to define certain things in terms of other things? Am I not capable of defining them in their own right? Or is it just this one smile. The smile that so easily reminds me of the dwarf in the flask? Is that why people appreciate a well thought out analogy? Similes? Metaphors? Because it's easier to grasp and because we lack the ability to define some things in their own right? I don't think it's just me. Or so many cliches wouldn't be similes. But still, I wish I could explain the grin in words and not similes. Or at least in a simile that didn't cater to japanese pop culture.

Quote of the Day:
"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have time to read the reviews."
- William Faulkner