My Fascination with Dragons

If there’s a mythical creature that I’ve been fascinated with for as long as I can remember (and that I can’t remember not liking) and a mythical creature that would be my favorite mythical creature if I had to pick just one, it would be dragons.  There are other mythical creatures that are among my favorite mythical creatures (centaurs and sphinxes in particular), but to me, none of them hold a candle to dragons.  That aside, this entry is going to be about how I became fascinated with dragons.

My fascination with dragons started when I was a kid and it stemmed from the dragon art that I saw (as opposed to stories or books about dragons that I read).  While I don’t remember what dragon art it was, I do remember that it wasn’t art of any specific dragon – just art of dragons in general.  There was just something about dragons that fascinated me, but I don’t know what it was.

At first, I just looked up dragon art on the Internet (which I would do early in the morning while everyone else was asleep).  Over time, my fascination with dragons expanded to the point where I collected several kinds of dragon items (dragon figures, dragon t-shirts, dragon necklaces, etc.) on occasion.  I occasionally read stories and books about dragons and watched movies about dragons as well.  There were times when my fascination with dragons wasn’t huge (particularly, when other things attracted my attention), but in spite of those times, my fascination with dragons never faded.

Years later, my fascination with dragons took a bit of a surprising turn when I started having dreams about dragons.  At first, I just had occasional dreams about dragons from works of fiction.  Then, a few years ago, a turning point happened:  I started having dreams about a male green Western dragon that was not from any work of fiction that I had been exposed to, was not from any of the dragon art that I had seen, and appeared in my dreams literally out of nowhere.  I could only wonder what this dragon was.  After I had some more dreams about this dragon, I came to the conclusion that this dragon was a creation of my own subconscious mind.  Even after I came to that conclusion, I was still confused and I still had some questions.  Who exactly was this dragon?  Why was this dragon appearing in my dreams?  The answers to these questions would be somewhat revealed in later dreams that I had about this dragon – and be answers that I would come to based on the dreams that I had about this dragon.

These days, it seems that there isn’t a day that goes by without a dragon-oriented thought going through my head at one point or another.  It also seems that there isn’t a month that goes by without me having at least one dream about dragons.