Beds take up an awful lot of room space. Just think of what use you could put a bedroom to if it was without a great big bed taking up all the floorspace. It could be turned into another sitting room, a study, office, dining room, playroom, bathroom or gym. They say necessity is the mother of invention and I think it is necessary to rethink the whole idea of a having a room for just for a bed.
A wonderful invention would be a bed-in-a-box. It would be an ingenious mix of memory foam and a cloud like substance. It would come in a box no bigger than a small suitcase and at the press of a button out would squirt the foam/cloud mix which would quickly form a bed shape. It would be incredibly comfy and there would be no need for pillows of blankets (therefore saving on the need to do endless washing and struggling with duvets). Instead the foam/cloud would envelope you in a cocoon of cosiness. On the box will be a row of buttons offering you the choice of single, double or king-size bed. It would have a temperature dial so you could have a warm bed in the winter and a cool one in the summer. It would even have a ‘firmness’ factor that you could select in case you wanted to do something other than sleep in it. And it would be waterproof. When you woke up in the morning you would just press another button and the foam/cloud would be sucked back into the box. A deluxe model may even have an inbuilt dry clean. But the pièce de résistance would be that it could float (obviously you controlled how high) thereby making it usable in any room of the house. It also has the added desirability factor of being portable. No more sleeping on friends uncomfortable sofas or having to book into a B&B because there is no room at a relatives. Just turn up with your bed-in-a-box and at the push of a button you are dreaming in your own bed.
All the blanket makers, duvet and pillow manufacturers would be put to work making the beds-in-a-box as their previous skills would be redundant so no jobs would be lost. In fact demand for other sorts of furniture would increase as people could let their imaginations run free in the furnishing of the space freed up the removal of the static bed. The housing market may slow down a bit as people would not longer have to move house just for extra bedrooms which would be good news for first time buyers as house prices may even fall.
Ideally people would change their ‘bedrooms’ into ‘me’ or ‘our’ rooms where they did exactly what they wanted. Even sleep.
Speaking of beds…dreams are amazing things. I often wake up with the meaning of the universe startingly clear and I lay for a few secords marvelling at this enlightenment and then before I am fully awake the revelations fade and is lost forever. Or until the next dream.
One of my recurring dreams is one in which I partake in Parkour.
Wiki:
Le Parkour, primarily considered a philosophy, includes the physical practice of traversing elements in both urban and rural settings. The goal is to move from one point to another as quickly and efficiently as possible. This discipline was created in France, Sarcelles, in Smooth and Evry by David Belle, Sébastien Foucan, and the founding members of the Yamakasi. It is inspired by "the natural method of physical education" by Georges Hébert. The term freerunning is sometimes used interchangeably with parkour. While parkour aims to enable the practitioner to be able to move quickly and efficiently past obstacles, freerunning has a greater emphasis on self-expression within the environment. Freerunning includes tricking moves such as aerial rotations and spins, while the purist definition of parkour founder David Belle would not consider these part of parkour because the moves are merely showy, not efficient, and do not help the participant to get from place to place. Although Sébastien Foucan co-founded parkour, his philosophy differed and so he is generally associated with freerunning (see below). A practitioner of parkour is called a traceur if male, or traceuse if female (from the French for bullet). Two primary characteristics of parkour are efficiency and speed. Traceurs take the most direct path through an obstacle as rapidly as that route can be traversed. Developing one's level of spatial awareness is often used to aid development in these areas. Also, efficiency involves avoiding injuries, both short and long term. This idea embodying parkour's unofficial motto is être et durer (to be and to last). Those who are skilled at this activity normally have extremely keen spatial awareness. Parkour's emphasis on efficiency distinguishes it from the similar practice of free running, which places more emphasis on freedom of movement and creativity.
Traceurs say that parkour also influences one's thought processes by enhancing self-confidence and critical-thinking skills that allow one to overcome everyday physical and mental obstacles.
According to Williams Belle, the philosophies and theories behind parkour are an integral aspect of the art, one that many non-practitioners have never been exposed to. Belle trains people because he wants "it to be alive" and for "people to use it".Châu Belle explains it is a "type of freedom" or "kind of expression"; that parkour is "only a state of mind" rather than a set of actions, and that it is about overcoming and adapting to mental and emotional obstacles as well as physical barriers. A recent convention of parkour philosophy has been the idea of "human reclamation". Andy (Animus of Parkour North America) clarifies it as "a means of reclaiming what it means to be a human being. It teaches us to move using the natural methods that we should have learned from infancy. It teaches us to touch the world and interact with it, instead of being sheltered by it." "It is as much as a part of truly learning the physical art as well as being able to master the movements, it gives you the ability to overcome your fears and pains and reapply this to life as you must be able to control your mind in order to master the art of parkour."
Dream definition of Parkour:
To dream that you are performing a parkour move, indicates that you are not letting any obstacles stand in your way of your goals. Alternatively, the dream means that you are in tune with your surroundings and environment. You are able to adapt to any situation.
And I thought it was about running away.
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