Prediction
I think that nightmares are the only worthwhile predictive dreams-- by worthwhile, I guess I'm referring in part to the well-examined idea of, "If you can predict the future and act to change things, is it still the future? Can we do that?" According to the speculative fiction I used to read, there's always something there to stop you.
Dreams (I mean the asleep-pseudoconscious-images kind, not the awake-wishes-and-aspirations kind) play wwaaayyy too big a part in my self-evaluation process. I am repeatedly mystified (really, like, "It's a fucking mystery to me!") why, if it's scary, it always happens in either University of Alberta Hospital or Cape Breton County. Obviously these are both scary places, but they certainly aren't the only ones I've lived in. Army dreams are usually all about embarrassment, not about fear.
I'd love to write more-- really I would-- but it's time to go change the future.
Dreams (I mean the asleep-pseudoconscious-images kind, not the awake-wishes-and-aspirations kind) play wwaaayyy too big a part in my self-evaluation process. I am repeatedly mystified (really, like, "It's a fucking mystery to me!") why, if it's scary, it always happens in either University of Alberta Hospital or Cape Breton County. Obviously these are both scary places, but they certainly aren't the only ones I've lived in. Army dreams are usually all about embarrassment, not about fear.
I'd love to write more-- really I would-- but it's time to go change the future.