what does it mean?

[mythicsagefire]

When you dream on Halloween/Samhain night about a hidden dead body in your friend's tiled wall above their bathtub?

(in other news, I finally saw Serenity!!!!!!!!)

Comments

Dreams

[jwh2o]

What does it mean? I think dreams are like normal thoughts in some ways. Although vivid, artistic, and creative, I don't follow allong with those who try to grant a formal meaning to them. For example, if you thought about that during your waking hours, what would it mean then? Possibly something quite different, but open to many interpretations, and finally maybe having no interpretation at all.

Probably at least it means you were asleep.

Re: Dreams

[mythicsagefire]

It was definitely not something I would think of during my waking hours other than in context with a story.
I don't always hold true that dreams are a representation of something because I lucid dream a lot. I do believe that some dreams can be your subconsciousness trying to tell you something. I do think dreaming the the body was in the wall above a bathtub is significant. Especially as we had just removed the tile and there she lay, bound and gagged and looking for all the world like she was going to roll into the tub. There was much more than that but not as important. Since I don't normally dream about dead bodys, it seemed significant that I would dream about one on Samhain.

Re: Dreams

[jwh2o]

It seems like there are at least three aspects to this: a spiritual or human side, an epistemological side, and a side that relates to the science of the matter.

From a spiritual side, we would like to reject a pure mechanistic view of the world that places impersonal forces in control of ourselves. Although is may not in fact be possible, the many layers of abstraction that separate us make that world seem remote. But to place outside spirits or more arcane forces in control of ourselves and our destiny seems to be equally odious. I would prefer to think, for example, that of the many various interpretations of a dream, I would be the one to choose which one if any is correct. Then, dreams become part of a creative process rather than some wisdom from an ancient being or the workings of a higher spirituality.

The epistemological side is: how are we to know the proper interpretation of a dream? If it is just a hunch, and there is no method for validating the truth or falsehood of an interpretation, then again it begins to seem more

[greeneydtigress]

Have you told the friend yet? Many dreams are the mind's way of flushing out images it has collected, not all of them are coherent. Though Freud would have a field day with it.

[mythicsagefire]

The friend seemed almost irrelevant - Its someone I consider a friend but not someone I see every day nor very close to. And in my dream I even thought about whether or not I thought they did it.

I don't generally dream about dead people - when I do, its because they died or are dead. But it seemed odd to me to dream about such on Samhain. And it caused me a few moments of panic when the body shifted to the door paneling of Thor's car - like a truth moment - did it have something to do with him. but then it went back to the wall above the bathtub.

Just one of my weirder dreams

[clarsa]

That all depends. How did you feel about it? Did you feel that it was someone you knew? Or that you were conspiring in it somehow? That you had put it there? That it was something left there from before she moved in

[mythicsagefire]

First, I must say, is the fact that I am an avid dreamer. I lucid dream, I have dreams of premonition, I have plot setting dreams which lead to stories later. Most of these dreams are easy to digest. And then there are the ones I can't figure out like this one. I don't normally dream of dead bodies unless they have died or are dead. So I found the fact that I did so on Samhain to be significant