Post by Denethor on Apr 5, 2010 14:57:25 GMT -5
It occurs to me our board lacks a dream thread, as in a spot where people can share and discuss dreams. Because this can be a dicey topic, I'd like to make one or two rules/requests about the (or rather this) dream thread.
1. Don't interpret another member's dream for him/her. I am not setting this up so some future self-styled Witch Queen (or King) with a cheap dream dictionary can play Great Seer. You know the type. If you're that future user (I say future because I can't think of any of the current membership who has this problem, though I venture to suggest we've all seen it), you might want to tool around this board first and make a slightly more educated guess as to how many members have come here because they want or need you as their guide and teacher. We discuss things here as equals. Therefore I make this rule/request for this thread, with one exception: do not offer your sage interpretation of another poster's dream unless she or he specifically asks for it in the dream post. If you wish a particular individual's opinion, moreover, and do not want any others, I suggest a PM as a means of asking that opinion instead of, or supplementary to, a post here. Remember, C. G. Jung, by all accounts an expert on the subject, used as a yardstick for interpretation the opinion of the dreamer, placing it in higher authority than all others.
2. (Obviously related to 1). I am not offering my own services as a dream interpreter. I am no great expert on dreams; I know a little about the physiology of the dream state, but beyond that I know about as much about dreams as most of us received in either formal or self-taught Basic Occult School. Any one of the better books on interpreting your own dreams will probably help you out at least as well if not better than I could. This thread is more for discussion and sharing. If someone else would like to set up their own "ask me to interpret you dreams!" thread, let that person go ahead. I may be wordy but I believe there are still plenty of pixels left.
OK, with that out of the way, I'll be brave and share something. What I have to share here is more a weird phenomenon or pattern about my dreams in the last two years or so than a specific dream, though I'm willing to illustrate with examples. What has happened is an odd disconnect in my anxiety dreams. I have had a lot fewer of these of late (for my guess as to why see "Angels") but when I do have them, they come in two types these days. One is a complete nightmare flip-out over something that wouldn't be at all scary to anyone else ("Ohmigod a Realtor! Michael, help!!!!") and the other is a dream with absolutely appallingly scary content, but no emotional reaction whatsoever. I'll give two examples of the latter. About a year and a half ago, I dreamed I was on a plane to a distant city and we had to make a crash-landing, because society was collapsing and there wasn't any air traffic control any more. (Note: I didn't say these made any damn sense.) We lived in isolation and very soon we were all Goth-Punk with railroad spikes embedded in our bodies, rotting flesh here and there, everything bloodstained and ruined, but we were surviving and somehow content. In another, I had caused the flesh to grow over my face, covering my eyes so I appeared featureless; I even saw that in the mirror, because I could see just fine anyway. I had done it as some sort of experiment, planning to take a razor blade and cut my eyes back open when the experiment was over. Now it was about time to do so, and the glaring flaw in this plan was becoming more evident to me. As I mulled it over, my father called, and I found myself dithering; which would be worse, cutting into my face and dealing with blood and pain and possible permanent blindness, or explaining to my Dad why I did this experiment and that I could see just fine anyway? (I still find it hard to believe there was any debate, but it was a dream.) In both cases, I woke up to wonder why there was all this creepy content and no fear or disgust reaction whatsoever. At other times there'd be a pile of rocks or that Realtor or something and I'd wake in terror.
I do have a lot fewer bad dreams these days than I had a year ago; whether that was due to a health effect, some kind of stress at that time, a stage in my own development, or something in the water, that part of it appears to be over. Incidentally, I had a non-anxiety dream about a Realtor too, that was set in the future with funny new technology and stuff, but I'm not going to share that one right away because I'm still debating writing a short story based on it.
Any other funky dream experiences anyone would like to share? We now have a spot for it.
1. Don't interpret another member's dream for him/her. I am not setting this up so some future self-styled Witch Queen (or King) with a cheap dream dictionary can play Great Seer. You know the type. If you're that future user (I say future because I can't think of any of the current membership who has this problem, though I venture to suggest we've all seen it), you might want to tool around this board first and make a slightly more educated guess as to how many members have come here because they want or need you as their guide and teacher. We discuss things here as equals. Therefore I make this rule/request for this thread, with one exception: do not offer your sage interpretation of another poster's dream unless she or he specifically asks for it in the dream post. If you wish a particular individual's opinion, moreover, and do not want any others, I suggest a PM as a means of asking that opinion instead of, or supplementary to, a post here. Remember, C. G. Jung, by all accounts an expert on the subject, used as a yardstick for interpretation the opinion of the dreamer, placing it in higher authority than all others.
2. (Obviously related to 1). I am not offering my own services as a dream interpreter. I am no great expert on dreams; I know a little about the physiology of the dream state, but beyond that I know about as much about dreams as most of us received in either formal or self-taught Basic Occult School. Any one of the better books on interpreting your own dreams will probably help you out at least as well if not better than I could. This thread is more for discussion and sharing. If someone else would like to set up their own "ask me to interpret you dreams!" thread, let that person go ahead. I may be wordy but I believe there are still plenty of pixels left.
OK, with that out of the way, I'll be brave and share something. What I have to share here is more a weird phenomenon or pattern about my dreams in the last two years or so than a specific dream, though I'm willing to illustrate with examples. What has happened is an odd disconnect in my anxiety dreams. I have had a lot fewer of these of late (for my guess as to why see "Angels") but when I do have them, they come in two types these days. One is a complete nightmare flip-out over something that wouldn't be at all scary to anyone else ("Ohmigod a Realtor! Michael, help!!!!") and the other is a dream with absolutely appallingly scary content, but no emotional reaction whatsoever. I'll give two examples of the latter. About a year and a half ago, I dreamed I was on a plane to a distant city and we had to make a crash-landing, because society was collapsing and there wasn't any air traffic control any more. (Note: I didn't say these made any damn sense.) We lived in isolation and very soon we were all Goth-Punk with railroad spikes embedded in our bodies, rotting flesh here and there, everything bloodstained and ruined, but we were surviving and somehow content. In another, I had caused the flesh to grow over my face, covering my eyes so I appeared featureless; I even saw that in the mirror, because I could see just fine anyway. I had done it as some sort of experiment, planning to take a razor blade and cut my eyes back open when the experiment was over. Now it was about time to do so, and the glaring flaw in this plan was becoming more evident to me. As I mulled it over, my father called, and I found myself dithering; which would be worse, cutting into my face and dealing with blood and pain and possible permanent blindness, or explaining to my Dad why I did this experiment and that I could see just fine anyway? (I still find it hard to believe there was any debate, but it was a dream.) In both cases, I woke up to wonder why there was all this creepy content and no fear or disgust reaction whatsoever. At other times there'd be a pile of rocks or that Realtor or something and I'd wake in terror.
I do have a lot fewer bad dreams these days than I had a year ago; whether that was due to a health effect, some kind of stress at that time, a stage in my own development, or something in the water, that part of it appears to be over. Incidentally, I had a non-anxiety dream about a Realtor too, that was set in the future with funny new technology and stuff, but I'm not going to share that one right away because I'm still debating writing a short story based on it.
Any other funky dream experiences anyone would like to share? We now have a spot for it.