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Of course, hold your own counsel re: dreams you'd rather not discuss among this lot.
I have pretty good dream memory, usually more easily accessed while falling asleep, but also often accessible during waking hours.
Usually in my dreams I am the POV character and placidly accept whatever happens (with very few horrific exceptions).
In recent times there have been nights when it seemed I was having someone else's dreams.
On a few occasions while abed I have recited a list of certain categories of dreams that I would rather not have that night.
One type of dream I'd rather not have involves me beginning to cross a busy street on foot and then becoming incapable of crossing to the other side or backtracking to the sidewalk from which I had started.
I also don't like airport dreams, work-related dreams, crazy-elevator dreams, or packing-to-move dreams, among others.
It doesn't seem I can request a few types of dreams that I do like, before I go to sleep -- but I'm not sure what those would be.
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@Arkturos saidSigmund Freud viewed dreams as a crucial pathway to understanding the unconscious mind, positing that they are a form of wish fulfillment, reflecting repressed desires and unconscious thoughts. He believed dreams act as a "guardian of sleep," allowing individuals to process unconscious urges without waking up. Freud distinguished between the manifest content (the dream as it appears to the dreamer) and the latent content (the hidden, symbolic meaning). Through techniques like free association, psychoanalysts could delve into the latent content to uncover the underlying wishes and desires driving the dream.
Of course, hold your own counsel re: dreams you'd rather not discuss among this lot.
I have pretty good dream memory, usually more easily accessed while falling asleep, but also often accessible during waking hours.
Usually in my dreams I am the POV character and placidly accept whatever happens (with very few horrific exceptions).
In recent times there have been ni ...[text shortened]... a few types of dreams that I do like, before I go to sleep -- but I'm not sure what those would be.
Carl Jung viewed dreams as a vital link between the conscious and unconscious mind, offering insights into the psyche and guiding individuals towards wholeness. He saw dreams as a natural and spontaneous expression of the unconscious, often revealing hidden aspects of oneself and compensating for imbalances in waking life. Jung emphasized the importance of dream analysis in understanding an individual's unique psychological landscape and journey towards individuation.
That being said, I usually wake up screaming from some kind of horrific dream about once a week. While I consider my PTSD as now cured, it seems my psyche has a few things left to work out.
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@Suzianne saidHmm, what about always trying to get away, hunted/chased in different situations. One time shot in the chest with a shotgun sitting against a wall with a numb feeling and being paralyzed from it just sitting there everything slowing down and waiting to go.
Sigmund Freud viewed dreams as a crucial pathway to understanding the unconscious mind, positing that they are a form of wish fulfillment, reflecting repressed desires and unconscious thoughts. He believed dreams act as a "guardian of sleep," allowing individuals to process unconscious urges without waking up. Freud distinguished between the manifest content (the dream as it ...[text shortened]... week. While I consider my PTSD as now cured, it seems my psyche has a few things left to work out.
@Suzianne saidI'm sorry to learn of that, and hope it will begin to subside and resolve itself sometime soon.
That being said, I usually wake up screaming from some kind of horrific dream about once a week. While I consider my PTSD as now cured, it seems my psyche has a few things left to work out.
Thank you for your summaries of Freud's and Jung's views about dreams.
@mike69 saidSorry to learn of that one!
Hmm, what about always trying to get away, hunted/chased in different situations. One time shot in the chest with a shotgun sitting against a wall with a numb feeling and being paralyzed from it just sitting there everything slowing down and waiting to go.
As a kid I had a dream about being chased by a monster (form unknown) and not being able to run fast enough. I have also had a few "threat of mad slasher" dreams where I wake up to find the front door open -- but no dreams where I actually got killed (that I remember).
I did have a "Star Trek" dream where I could feel myself dematerializing -- that was cool.
@Arkturos saidWell it did say unusual and or typical😂, but it was weird to feel it also. I don’t dream a whole lot now, I take a lot of meds to go to sleep or I can’t, I just stay up because my mind won’t stop. I remember when the Exorcist came out as a kid, my parents went to the drive in to see it and thought I was asleep in the back seat, I had nightmares for a long time from that one. Then around the same age my uncle went off an icy bridge into a river and died and I had the dream of standing at the bank screaming for him and at the divers but no sound would come out for a long time. Good ones would be a nice change😁.
Sorry to learn of that one!
As a kid I had a dream about being chased by a monster (form unknown) and not being able to run fast enough. I have also had a few "threat of mad slasher" dreams where I wake up to find the front door open -- but no dreams where I actually got killed (that I remember).
I did have a "Star Trek" dream where I could feel myself dematerializing -- that was cool.
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@MartinS saidMay I show you the way to the RHP confession closet, where you could do a whole vlog on that topic? 😉
Would you two please get a room; the rest of the RHP community are not interested in your bickering.
P.S. -- I also seem to remember that a few months ago you were so fed up or whatever that it sounded like you would be leaving the forums. Not to chase you away, but what happened there? 😉
Please reply in the form of dreams you have really had. 😉
@mike69 saidSorry to learn of that, and that I don't have any advice to offer. Plus, I imagine you have been seeking your own answers.
Well it did say unusual and or typical😂, but it was weird to feel it also. I don’t dream a whole lot now, I take a lot of meds to go to sleep or I can’t, I just stay up because my mind won’t stop. I remember when the Exorcist came out as a kid, my parents went to the drive in to see it and thought I was asleep in the back seat, I had nightmares for a long time from that on ...[text shortened]... and at the divers but no sound would come out for a long time. Good ones would be a nice change😁.
As for relatives, I have only had significant dreams about my late Mom's late parents. In one, the ghost of my Grandpa scared me by rushing at me and then up the side of a multi-story building. Maybe he didn't mean to scare me, but was just saying good-bye. He was a gentle man, a craftsman and a carpenter who worked in a steel mill, and he was the one who introduced us kids to Mr. Potato-Head in the 60s.
As for my maternal grandmother, I don't remember the rest of the dream but she left me with this phrase: "second presence" -- which was the seed for a poem I wrote and published locally at the time in the early 90s.
One of her favorite jokes (which I think she came up with herself) was the name of a fake radio show: "Lady on the Run, sponsored by Milk of Magnesia."
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@Arkturos saidThat would be disturbing to see someone your love that has passed show up and run up a building, or do something unusual like that, he sounds like he was very influential in your life. My grandfather was the same for me when it came to feeling truly loved and kindness. This is something I’ve never encountered in any dreams. I remember getting a mr potato head for Christmas when he came out, then the female version came out shortly after if I remember correctly. Don’t forget about silly putty and the slinky, things were much different then 😁. This joke reminds me of the jokes as a kid like green spots on the wall by pick them and flick them😁.
Sorry to learn of that, and that I don't have any advice to offer. Plus, I imagine you have been seeking your own answers.
As for relatives, I have only had significant dreams about my late Mom's late parents. In one, the ghost of my Grandpa scared me by rushing at me and then up the side of a multi-story building. Maybe he didn't mean to scare me, but was just saying goo ...[text shortened]... p with herself) was the name of a fake radio show: "Lady on the Run, sponsored by Milk of Magnesia."
@mike69 saidThey (dreams) are the closest we get to communicating with our unconscious mind. Therefore, base feelings, such as fear and dread (and sometimes irrational anger), which we tamp down in our conscious mind in order to wing it through the day, can become manifest in dreams. This is both halves of our mind attempting to make sense of the dichotomy of what we consider acceptable and what we consider unacceptable, thought and sometimes behavior, and attempting to consolidate the two (or at least define and separate them) and categorizing them in the process.
Hmm, what about always trying to get away, hunted/chased in different situations. One time shot in the chest with a shotgun sitting against a wall with a numb feeling and being paralyzed from it just sitting there everything slowing down and waiting to go.
This is also the basis for TV shows and stories which explore what might happen to us if we never got the chance to dream and the unconscious mind is allowed free reign.
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@Arkturos saidIt's getting better.
I'm sorry to learn of that, and hope it will begin to subside and resolve itself sometime soon.
Thank you for your summaries of Freud's and Jung's views about dreams.
It's only once every week to ten days or so now and sometimes I go a couple of weeks without one. Strangely enough, I've also just started being able to know I'm dreaming inside the dream and being able to opt out and wake myself up. I never get this option unless I am in imminent danger (and I've always taken the option if I see the way out--it always takes the form of me thinking "wait, I'm dreaming, I can just wake up", and I do), and so I haven't been able to turn it into a lucid dream. This happens about once a month.
When my PTSD was fresh, I couldn't get through a night without a sleep interruption unless I was, ahem, 'anesthetized'. But then I wouldn't dream at all. It was most difficult after I went through rehab, but a kind therapist (and hypnosis) got me through the worst of that.
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@Suzianne saidThank you. I'm glad to learn of this.
It's getting better.
It's only once every week to ten days or so now and sometimes I go a couple of weeks without one. Strangely enough, I've also just started being able to know I'm dreaming inside the dream and being able to opt out and wake myself up. I never get this option unless I am in imminent danger (and I've always taken the option if I see the way out--it alw ...[text shortened]... lt after I went through rehab, but a kind therapist (and hypnosis) got me through the worst of that.
P.S. -- If the light switches don't work, that's a clue. 😉