fancy meeting you here, professor

[shaleside]

I find the cast of characters who appear in my dreams to be a very peculiar assortment of the people from my actual life.  Do the most important people show up?  Not a bit, or at least only in passing.  For the most part, it's a bizarre mixture of the random acquaintances and the side-figures, like co-workers, professors, or friends-of-friends.

Comments

[seirai]

Are your dreams that coherent when you have them? I mean, weird and perhaps nonsensical, but fitting into some understandable framework.

That is sad documentation. (And I don't think even a web programmer should be allowed to get away with it. =P)

[shaleside]

Yes, my dreams are extremely coherent, with their own internal logic. The Professor David dancing dream was actually less coherent than usual for me. Some of them have actually been more like short stories or TV episodes, with a definite beginning, middle, and end, and a conflict that gets resolved by the time I wake up. Maybe that's part of why my dreams aren't often very frightening to me -- even when they deal with a scary subject, they feel more like a story or a TV show than like real life. What about you? (I find it very interesting to see the different degrees to which people's dreams are organized ...)

That particular example is indeed terrible documentation for anyone. But with some of the other things that are confusing to me would probably not be so confusing to someone who was a little more experienced and had a little more context to work from.

By the way, David was a remarkably good tap dancer in my dream. I can't really picture that being the case in real life ... but you never know.