A Conversation for Talking Point: What do You Dream About?
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ITIWBS Started conversation Apr 12, 2008
Color or black and white:
Both, sometimes in the same dream. Also I dream in cartoon and technical drawing line diagramatics. Sometimes I dream in silhouettes. This last was conditioned by a period of my late preadolescent years during which I had serious problems of episodic blindness... consequence of an unusually difficult preadolescent adjustment crisis I eventually grew out of, related to echolation. The silhouettes are the same type generated by echolation (gray on gray).
Sound:
Yes. Music, voices, background noise.
Lucid dreaming:
Yes, buts its like winding a wind up toy, eventually an uncontrolled unwind must come.
Dream diary:
I don't keep a dream diary, but have had a habit since I was seven years of age of reviewing the events of the day before when I have a disturbing dream. Usually I find the conditioning stress in the events of the preceding day. For example, having dreams of going naked in a new school, thinking over the events of the day before, I remembered experiencing anxiety over difficulty finding some article of clothing I needed. I got into the habit of laying out my clothing the night before and haven't had a dream like that since. Occasionally I make a record of a dream I find unusually interesting.
Dream of a specific person:
Yes. Usually with unbidden accompaniments of other personalities.
Nightmares I can't wake up from:
Yes, related to a diagnosed problem of sleep paralysis. My neurologist tells me its not a serious problem.
Talking or walking in my sleep:
No.
Theme of especial interest to me: Dreams of Contraries. There is a lot of literature on them. I'm personally given to an interpretation founded on opponent process mechanisms of compensation.
Related interests: Oracles and Auguries. (Taken in terms of the mechanics of the phenomenology.)
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