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# They Enter Our Minds Like Bats
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/they-enter-our-minds-like-bats/
- Published: 2024-05-05T19:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:26.000Z
- Description: The ancient Greeks believed dreams enter our sleeping minds like bats to deliver messages from the gods.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

In Greek mythology, dreams were often personified as [Óneiroi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneiros?ref=jamesreeves.co#:~:text=In%20Greek%20mythology%2C%20dreams%20were,brothers%20of%20Hypnos%20%28Sleep%29.), black-winged demons that enter our sleeping minds like bats to deliver messages from the gods. Last night I dreamt I drank perfume and had a minor role in a detective show in which none of us could remember the name of the president between Johnson and Ford.

This week our previous president went on trial for being sleazy, and I envy the optimists who think this might save our republic. Meanwhile, my therapist taught me how to give myself a panic attack in twenty seconds flat. He wants me to do this five times every day. I’m finally giving psychology a shot, and it was long overdue. Gutting it out wasn’t getting me very far. Each night, I drive along deserted highways with the Chromatics, trying to get my interstate mojo back. Each day, I feel a bit better, even though the world feels a little more insane.

Strange how it’s perfectly acceptable to say ‘goodbye’ in person or over the telephone, yet it transforms an email or a text message into a suicide note. In other news, I no longer understand the atheist who wants to talk people out of their gods. I often think about this line in [*First Reformed*](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/first-reformed?ref=jamesreeves.co): “The desire to pray is itself a form of prayer.”