Last nights dream was a nightmare which ended in a cold sweat around 3:30 AM and does not especially warrant any fine detailing other than to say the main theme was aliens (the little grey ones with the almond eyes), my capture with others (and corralled and held by other humans too, interesting and confusing twist) and the holding down and drilling through my cheeks and subsequent smashing of my teeth (at which point, thankfully I came to). I couldn’t get to sleep again after that.Do you think they were friendly? Happy times.
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Tigger often has striking dreams which she remembers in detail and recounts with gusto. I do not know whether to envy her this or to be grateful for the fact that I hardly ever recall my dreams mots of which, in the cold light of day, seem a meaningless jumble.
I suspect that dreams are meant to be meaningless because they are the expression of the unconscious which exists in a layer below the intellect with its logical and organizational abilities. Why then do some dreams seem to take the form of narratives. I don’t know. I suspect that if we awake slowly, sliding up through shallower and shallower layers of sleep, we begin to “interpret” our dreams and inject sense into them. I have actually caught myself doing this and realized that I had spent time half-asleep and half-awake consciously elaborating the “plot” of the dream.
Or maybe the intellect plays a bigger part in our dreams than we imagine and sometimes lends a helping hand to organize them. Maybe a dream researcher somewhere has the answers.
What is interesting about such dreams is the effect they have on your waking consciousness. You almost want to believe in them. I am sure that many stories in the Bible about God speaking to people were really dreams that were so striking that the dreamer chose to believe in their objective reality on awakening.
Carl Yung placed great importance on dreams and their interpretation. I remember most of my dreams and they intrigue me as I probably only have a tentative belief in the ‘real world’ of the conscious. ‘I am the dreamer, you are the dream’ I think applies equally to the conscious experience as much as the unconscious. On a superficial level I ‘enjoy’ the creativity of the dream experience.It can feel quite cathartic sometimes and yes it’s all in widescreen (IMAX even), colour with Dolby 5.1 sound too (which is more than my ‘real world is).