I've really enjoyed reading about all your dreams and seeing your photos. It is a wonderful feeling to attain a dream.

Tim and I spent 30 years taking our family to Ocean City, MD. We are beach / water people. We can sit on the beach for hours - crack of dawn to bonfire under the stars. We spent every summer dreaming of having a place of our own there. We'd grab all the free real estate books in the convenience stores and drive around, dreaming of a day we could do it.

In 2018 we were finally able to do it and we love every minute we spend there. We fill it with kids, grands and pups, it's crowded and crazy and wonderful! Now we dream of getting the heck outta Jersey and living there full time - so for now, I'll keep dreaming!!!

So all those colors WERE actually there Thankfully my retinas weren't detaching

Reading about and seeing pictures related to peoples' dreams has been wonderful. Your story particularly spoke to me. I am a pianist, studying piano from the time I was 8 through college and receiving a Bachelor of Music Degree (a performance degree). I always dreamt of being a concert pianist and, in some ways, I was on my way. I joined a newly formed symphony after moving to Seattle but, before I even attended a practice, I fell in love and followed another dream. When I returned, I gave private piano lessons for a number of years along with some other things. Again, my life went another way but I did keep my piano up. The one thing that impressed me about your story was that you never gave up and eventually did and are doing what you love. So many people through the years, knowing that I played, would say they always regretted not continuing to play. That's why you have impressed me so.

To all the others participating in this challenge, I commend you for obtaining your dreams. It takes a lot to do so, no matter what the dream may be. My life went in different ways than what I dreamt but I have no regrets. I've been lucky and done things I've really enjoyed and had experiences some/many never have. Interestingly enough, photography has been a great part of it. My dream now, is to get out and about at some point, have a bunch more road trips and some out-of-the-way experiences, and photograph all that I see. If I have some extra time, I will find a few pictures which exemplify what I'm looking forward to again.

I had one dream that didn't happen and it was definitely for the better. It was a long distance romance and he, like me, was president of his State Student Nurses' Assn. in the mid 60s. I'd been to his home in MO and loved his family , but. I wasn't sure. He came to MI where I was living with my parents and going for my degree in nursing. My father was not very hospitable and it didn't help that at the first family meal, he, the boyfriend, pushed his chair back to get up and the back of the chair broke off. Things were not going well in many ways and I was suspicious when he said he HAD to get to the post office. Turns out he'd mailed an engagement ring to "General Delivery". I was shocked, totally unprepared, totally unsure and turned him down. Instead, I wound up with a wonderful man and never a doubt we were to be together.

Like Simon and others, believe it or not, I had a "dream car". I had always wanted an MG - preferably a '55, British Racing Green and one I could drive and not just "show". For a "milestone birthday" I drove into the dooryard and there sat an MGB, '72, blue convertible. I do enjoy this car even though it is getting much harder to get in and out of!