Paging Dr. Freud, Dr. Sigmund Freud ...thecanuckguyAugust 19 2007, 18:18:18 UTC
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Erm, aren't all flying dreams "atypical" in the sense that humans cannot fly?
(Of course that would make all my dreams atypical, as pretty much all of them are bizarre, impossible situations. I look at people strangely when they describe dreams that could happen in reality.)
I used to have scores of flying dreams. Interestingly, I haven't had a single one since I got married over seven years ago. I don't know what "flying dreams" are supposed to represent (it seems a common enough genre that they probably have a meaning), but I'm sure that I haven't had any since I got married is significant.
Re: Paging Dr. Freud, Dr. Sigmund Freud ...efbqAugust 20 2007, 14:35:56 UTC
I'd say that flying is a 'typical' dream, and I have a 'typical' flying dream (which I described).
As far as what dreams 'mean', I'm pretty skeptical of the dream book answers. Although you and I might both use flying as a subconscious symbol of roughly the same thing, I suspect the exact meaning would be different. (I really don't think that all flying dreams are lucid. There are culturally recognized factors as well.
The best way to figure out what a dream means might be to be aware of how you feel about it when you're dreaming it, and how you feel about it when you're awake.
Everything is better when you're dreamingstarfyroneAugust 20 2007, 23:57:58 UTC
Including dreams.
Sat. night I had a dream in which I visited a girl far away. And she talked to me, and what she said seemed profound and comforting, I felt a lot better. And I sortof half woke and told myself "I really need to remember what she just said", and went back to sleep. In the morning I woke, and indeed remembered (more or less?) what she said: "Its not at all fair, those people shouldn't be so mean to you. It's not you're fault you're a loser."
I guess she was really pretty or something, because it sounded so nice when she said it.
Re: Everything is better when you're dreamingefbqAugust 21 2007, 15:54:26 UTC
Like I said, your reaction inside the dream, and your reaction outside the dream are often different. The trick is to figure out where that sense of comfort actually came from, and hang on to that, not to the words which were wrapped around it...
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Erm, aren't all flying dreams "atypical" in the sense that humans cannot fly?
(Of course that would make all my dreams atypical, as pretty much all of them are bizarre, impossible situations. I look at people strangely when they describe dreams that could happen in reality.)
I used to have scores of flying dreams. Interestingly, I haven't had a single one since I got married over seven years ago. I don't know what "flying dreams" are supposed to represent (it seems a common enough genre that they probably have a meaning), but I'm sure that I haven't had any since I got married is significant.
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As far as what dreams 'mean', I'm pretty skeptical of the dream book answers. Although you and I might both use flying as a subconscious symbol of roughly the same thing, I suspect the exact meaning would be different. (I really don't think that all flying dreams are lucid. There are culturally recognized factors as well.
The best way to figure out what a dream means might be to be aware of how you feel about it when you're dreaming it, and how you feel about it when you're awake.
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Sat. night I had a dream in which I visited a girl far away. And she talked to me, and what she said seemed profound and comforting, I felt a lot better. And I sortof half woke and told myself "I really need to remember what she just said", and went back to sleep. In the morning I woke, and indeed remembered (more or less?) what she said: "Its not at all fair, those people shouldn't be so mean to you. It's not you're fault you're a loser."
I guess she was really pretty or something, because it sounded so nice when she said it.
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