We all dream. That much is a fact. But do you remember your dreams? Do you write them down after? Do you think there is anything to them? Is it our subconscious surfacing, or as Freud said, our unconscious minds, that are giving us our deepest answers to our true selves? Or is it complete imagination that has no bearing on, or connection to, our ‘real” existence? Is it actually an alternate universe, where we live for as many hours a day as we allow ourselves to sleep? And what of nightmares, the ones where you wake up in a cold sweat, struggling for air and breath, remembering and not remembering? What the hell are they? As a child, I always had the same recurring nightmare until I outgrew earaches. Gruesome and frightening nightmares, I’d rather not talk about. And last night, I woke, panicked, to believe that my significant other was having an affair with…wait for it…Britney Spears’s sister, a la Zoey 101. Gasp! It felt so real, so true, I woke, breathless, ready to give him a piece of my mind, until I began to howl in laughter. Really? Zoey 101? What the hell goes on during slumber? We all know the childhood urban legends about falling in our sleep, that we’ll die if we crash and actually hit the ground. Or the grandmother who told us that guilt is the cause of vivid dreaming and nightmares. Or the dream dictionaries that have specific meanings attributed to specific things, like if your teeth are falling out in your dreams, x, y, and z are true. Or even more difficult to swallow, that perhaps we live out our past lives in our dream world, which then, of course, would beg the question of whether or not you believe in past lives. In an article from Psychology Today, it states that basically all this talk, from ancient Egyptian beliefs of mystical revelations to Freud and Jung espousing the secrets of ‘self’ to today’s ‘online dream dictionaries,’ has been deemed very unlikely, that while we think we can unlock “secret codes” to glean meaning into our dreams, essentially there is NO secret code, but instead that dreaming is rather random. What do I think? Like many things, I’m content to say I don’t know. I’m not ashamed either. When my mind really goes down the path to make sense of it, I start envisioning Richard Bach’s novel One, of myriad alternate lives we’re leading, each choice, a new path. Or I begin to think that we live two lives and do not know it, the one that is me right now, and the one in slumber. Or that we don’t exist at all really, but that we’re just energy with no beginning and no end. And then, my brain just hurts. What is wrong with just saying: I haven’t a fucking clue? And in admitting that, I can find a semblance of peace…just as long as I never have to dream about Jamie Spears again. 😊 For further reading, click here: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/supersurvivors/201801/do-dreams-really-mean-anything
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Donna Murnane
5/4/2018 00:03:34
When I was in my early teens, I came home from school and took a quick nap on the sofa. I only was asleep for about 15 minuets. During that time I dreamt that my great uncle, who lived in Connecticut, I was on Long Island, NewYork. I dreamt that my great uncle climbed up on to his roof and fell off. I dreamt that my aunt drove from NewYork to Connecticut and got to my great uncles house just as they were taking him away in the ambulance. I woke up and immediately called my aunt to tell her to rush up to Connecticut, to stop my Great uncle from going on the roof. It took me about a half hour to convince her to go. I knew that if he got hurt, then she would be stuck taking care of him for the rest of his life. Something I knew she would not be happy about. And just like in my dream, she got there just as the ambulance was driving away. And she was stuck taking care of him for the rest of his life. I made it a point to not remember my dreams from that point on. It really freaked me out.
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Master
5/5/2018 18:31:16
I have to admit this to you. I had no idea who that was. Our age difference is really showing. Don't ignore your dreams though.
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