Dreams

[€uroMeinke]

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I love talking about dreams and the dream world. But in my conversations elsewhere (AKA Live Journal) a few different ideas have been kicked about so I thought it time to bring it to the message board to discuss and not just to essay about.

So what do you think about dreams? Are the episodes of wish fulfillment? Are they meant to entertain us while we sleep – B-movies of the mind? Are they windows to the soul? Or are they parallel lives we privately in other worlds?

I’ll come back with my opinions, but I’d like to hear what you’ve got to say about the topic.

[Not Afraid]

I just whant you to bring a notepad into the bedroom on the morning while I'm groggy enough to actually you my dream so I can see what the HELL is going on in my head.

[Prudence]

Damned if I know. I'd love to think that dreams are working out some deeper truths, but I regularly have "action movie" dreams, complete with watching myself in the third person. Really, some of them are quite excellent. Definitely summer blockbusters. And an arguement for "B movies of the mind." Or possibly a wish fulfillment, but I don't have a conscious desire to be an action movie star.

But every so often I have one that really stands out and I wake up wondering "Why?" Why did I just dream that? What does that mean? What was I supposed to learn?

[CoasterMatt]

I have a lot of dreams with blue elephants and purple weenie dogs asking me directions - and they show up in the middle of other fairly plain dreams, too.

I like to think of dreams as the spirit devoid of any kind of facade or pretense - ymmv

[Gemini Cricket]

No comment.

Sincerely,
George W. Bush Jr.

[AllyOops!]

I've been having lots of dreams where I'm a Mommy & have a baby. Or dreams of me being pregnant. I know I'm having these dreams because it's something that I'm becoming very curious about, and it's a stage in my life I feel I'm close to being ready for. The more I dream about it, the more it excites me. Muchly. I never thought I'd ever feel that way! Nobody is more surprised then myself. Dreamy, pun-intended sigh..

I could go on and on and on about dreams! I dream very vividly, and in color. And nothing is worse then the night terrors I use to suffer from. I occasionally get bad nightmares, still.

And don't even get me started on the nocturnal yowza's that are sex dreams! Holy pillow!

[wendybeth]

I think for the most part dreams are your mind's way of tossing the trash. However, I've had a few that were of a more prescient nature, and so I think perhaps there is something more to the dream state than the rational side of my mind wants to admit. I also think we need an 'Interepret My Dream, €uro' section, because you are quite good at it.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

No comment.

Sincerely,
George W. Bush Jr.

Lol, GC!

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I have dreams and sometimes I have sequals. I've had repeats and I've had probably 100+ dreams with the same person in it that I've never met.

My earliest dream rememberance was from around the age of 10 and it had to do with me going to our "church." My family and me. Outside it was raining and in the parking area was a coffin on an open cart. It opens and something stares at me. I don't really see it, just cool eyes and pale yellow skin. No real form. Inside the "church" I'm sitting down on the chairs which were like little couches. I suddenly feel somthing pressing against my side. It pushes harder. I look and it's a hand coming from within the cushons of the couch. Same color - pale, dull yellow. I see the cool eyes.

I wake up and there is a throbing in my side.

I haven't forgot it ever since that morning I woke up and whenever i think about it, I feel someone pressing against my side.

Weird huh?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, seeing as it was my thoughts that sparked this, I suppose I should respond.

Essentially, I don't discount the fact that some dreams can be insights into your mind, however I don't believe all of them are. I liken it to your brain just randomly flipping channels. Who knows if what you've landed on is a hard-hitting investigative documentary, or a Joe Bob movie. Or perhaps even a cleverly crafted work of fiction that merely appears to be reality, a la War of the Worlds. Because of that uncertainty, I have a hard time putting much stock in them and don't spend too much of my energy analyzing. The only ones I've ever really spent time on have been some recurring ones. And they've been interesting, but so disconnected from anything in my waking life that I've mostly come to the conclusion that it's just my brain playing out some hypotheticals and/or getting some exercise.