Dreaming tonight
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
-E. V. Lucas
I'm restless and feel like making a post. I hate being restless, usually an easy distraction such as reading will do the trick. For today, a post!
For a little more than a month now, my dreaming patterns have been completely different from normal. I always have the same variety of dreams, they're always fairly coherent, and more often than not I realize it's a dream during the encounter. It could just be the way I've been sleeping lately (staying up late/sleeping in with multiple breaks), but recently my dreams have had an absolute clarity where I can remember them after, and I have multiple and seperate dreams every night.
I don't dream like normally portrayed, it is not an exact copy of waking life but "fake". Rather, I am in situations or there is an overall concept. I won't remember exact details of what a person or object looks like, but I will fully understand their purpose or my situation with them. Even people I know, I couldn't tell you what they were "wearing" in my dream, for example. Another example, I don't have to see who's chasing me to know I'm being chased. I find it rather incredible. I am conscious of the fact that in my dreaming, I am seeing concepts and feeling emotions or thought processes rather than specifics. Half the time I'm aware of the dream and in full control of it because of that. And I can almost always associate something I'm dreaming about to something on my mind or something which happened recently, and it even helps to point at what truly is on my mind lately (even when I don't want to realize/admit it). The other 5% of the time it's completely random (concepts/people/situations I know, but really have no bearing on me recently).
I don't think everyone dreams this way, or at least "perceives" things the same. I think this is just how my brain works/processes information, and in turn it allows me to do things such as be conscious of my dreaming, and to take control of it to an extent. I think my brain has a constant need for coherence.
I might write about the odd dream, we'll see.
-Jon
What do I want... a dynamic question and a paradox of an answer!
-E. V. Lucas
I'm restless and feel like making a post. I hate being restless, usually an easy distraction such as reading will do the trick. For today, a post!
For a little more than a month now, my dreaming patterns have been completely different from normal. I always have the same variety of dreams, they're always fairly coherent, and more often than not I realize it's a dream during the encounter. It could just be the way I've been sleeping lately (staying up late/sleeping in with multiple breaks), but recently my dreams have had an absolute clarity where I can remember them after, and I have multiple and seperate dreams every night.
I don't dream like normally portrayed, it is not an exact copy of waking life but "fake". Rather, I am in situations or there is an overall concept. I won't remember exact details of what a person or object looks like, but I will fully understand their purpose or my situation with them. Even people I know, I couldn't tell you what they were "wearing" in my dream, for example. Another example, I don't have to see who's chasing me to know I'm being chased. I find it rather incredible. I am conscious of the fact that in my dreaming, I am seeing concepts and feeling emotions or thought processes rather than specifics. Half the time I'm aware of the dream and in full control of it because of that. And I can almost always associate something I'm dreaming about to something on my mind or something which happened recently, and it even helps to point at what truly is on my mind lately (even when I don't want to realize/admit it). The other 5% of the time it's completely random (concepts/people/situations I know, but really have no bearing on me recently).
I don't think everyone dreams this way, or at least "perceives" things the same. I think this is just how my brain works/processes information, and in turn it allows me to do things such as be conscious of my dreaming, and to take control of it to an extent. I think my brain has a constant need for coherence.
I might write about the odd dream, we'll see.
-Jon
What do I want... a dynamic question and a paradox of an answer!