Sunday, July 31, 2005
What are dreams supposed to be? Is it part of our conscious thoughts? Or maybe our subconscious at work? Or something more intangible?
I've been having 'weird' dreams every night for the past week. I feel that dreams are a reflection of something (what exactly I do not know yet). Often, I can figure out rationally how I came to have a certain dream. Like bits and pieces of events, objects or conversation that I happen to come across during the day (or week and sometimes time isnt really a factor) might end up somewhere in my dream.
But there are times when I'm really puzzled by my dreams. Like how I often dream of people I have never met before. Or how my dreams are usually set in places I've never been to before. It's like in my dream I'm at home, yet my home is not a place I've lived in before (in real life). Question is have I met these people before sometime during my day to day life but have not consciously perceived their presence? Or are they really made up by me?
Last night's dream gave rise to another question. In one part of the dream, a friend had answered a question (Are you going to run?) with 'Is this the first day you know me?' (or something along that line). Personally I had expected him to run. If I was awake and I was asked to think about it, I would have guessed there was a 80 - 20 % chance of him running. But yet in my dream he stayed. Could it be my subconscious is more perceptive of the personality of my friend? Or was it just me trying to contradict myself? Or maybe it was me trying to change my friend?
Oh well.. I guess it's ok as long as I dont get nightmares (or too emotionally draining dreams, like the ones I had a few days back). Dreams can be fun and often funny even (at least mine are..lol)
I've been having 'weird' dreams every night for the past week. I feel that dreams are a reflection of something (what exactly I do not know yet). Often, I can figure out rationally how I came to have a certain dream. Like bits and pieces of events, objects or conversation that I happen to come across during the day (or week and sometimes time isnt really a factor) might end up somewhere in my dream.
But there are times when I'm really puzzled by my dreams. Like how I often dream of people I have never met before. Or how my dreams are usually set in places I've never been to before. It's like in my dream I'm at home, yet my home is not a place I've lived in before (in real life). Question is have I met these people before sometime during my day to day life but have not consciously perceived their presence? Or are they really made up by me?
Last night's dream gave rise to another question. In one part of the dream, a friend had answered a question (Are you going to run?) with 'Is this the first day you know me?' (or something along that line). Personally I had expected him to run. If I was awake and I was asked to think about it, I would have guessed there was a 80 - 20 % chance of him running. But yet in my dream he stayed. Could it be my subconscious is more perceptive of the personality of my friend? Or was it just me trying to contradict myself? Or maybe it was me trying to change my friend?
Oh well.. I guess it's ok as long as I dont get nightmares (or too emotionally draining dreams, like the ones I had a few days back). Dreams can be fun and often funny even (at least mine are..lol)
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