I don't know how much you all dream, or how much consideration you give the dreams you do have, but I've been thinking about this lately. I'm not so much concerned about the content of the dream as I am how dreams end up the way they do....the path they take. I have 2 reoccurring dreams. One, is where I'm walking down a dark alley and I get attacked, the other is watching an airplane fall out of the sky. I had the airplane dream this morning.
Now before I saw the plane out the window, and before it crashed, I was having a chat with Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell about England. In fact, I think we were there. We were sitting around on couches, in a living room, talking. Now, my question is this: when did this dream decide to be my reoccurring dream involving the plane? Did my mind set out to end this otherwise pleasant scenario in tragedy? Or did my mind decide during the dream, to take it in a different direction?
When I see the plane, I know it's going down...and when I'm walking that familiar dark alley, I know what's coming. On occasion I'll make it down the alley, or I can wake myself before the inevitable happens. It's when I'm having another type of dream altogether and it inexplicably turns into disaster, that intrigues me. So does the dream know where it's going when it starts, or does it take on a life of it's own as it's happening? Scripted or improv?
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Seek help Linda.
I'll preface this by saying that I am not a trained psychologist...but I am a thinker.
Do you feel like there are things in your life that you are unable to control that you feel will end badly? I don't dream all that much, but when I listened to a ton of talk radio, I just had a negative attitude all the time. I still like listening to Beck et al., but I now balance it by listeneing to at least as much positivity. I make sure that I have more positive vibes in my life than negatie ones. Don't keep yourself blind to all the bad going on, but keep yourself aware. Maybe I'm way off, but that's what I saw in my own life.
Lol..this is not going where I thought it would. It wasn't meant to be a cry for help! :)
No, I hear what you're saying Nestor. I'm actually quite positive, I was just using those examples to pose the question of how our dreams carry out. I wasn't trying to call attention to the content of the dreams as much as how they change midstream. I guess maybe you guys don't experience this!
"I'm actually quite positive"
Linda, you're obviously in denial. There are plenty of well qualified professionals that would be more than willing to help you (and quite possibly, in your case, pro-bono).
Oh. Missed that. As far as changing midstream, I've had that happen, but I don't dream very often. It's usually a sure sign that I've overslept.
Script, honey.
My dreams seem to have kind've those common themes as well. The falling theme (I dream I'm falling off a mountain, then I wake up before I hit the ground, and find that I've fallen out of bed and I'm the floor.) That dream hasn't reappeared for awhile (but I bet it does tonight. ;-) )
The other I have is the long chase, which in my case, I'm running around looking for my lost car. I never find it, but wake up and realize that it's parked outside.
Probably my strangest dream: I dreamed that one of my cousins was trying to wake me up, and then I woke up and he wasn't there. :-)
Lol...piss off, Havic!
I knew Stan would come through for me! Maybe it takes a chronic dreamer to know what I mean. I get that if you don't dream much, it's hard to get it. There were times in my 20's mostly, when I was just exhausted from dreaming. I felt like I lived a whole other life while I was sleeping.
You could make the case that you non-dreamers are more at peace, and I'd give you that. But till then..thank you Stan!
Our Sur pics for tonite:
R-Villians rew; Heroes imm; Jerri out
S-Villians rew; Heroes imm; Parvati out
GL!
Actually, i dream almost every nite, but I usually forget the dream w/in moments of waking.
The secret to defeatn a scary dream is too imagine you will have a gun w/ you just prior to fallin asleep. W/in the next few scary dreams you WILL end up w/ said gun and you WILL use it to defeat whatever it is that's threatinin you.
Mark White for Texas Governor 2010 (no exclamation point).
Ha..our pics are close.
D: Heroes, Heroes, Jerri
L: Vill, Heroes, Parv (exactly S's pick)
gl to you, too!
Rob: "He's like a Hobbit...on crack." LOL!!
Good one!!
Totals:
R: 23
S: 27
D: 19
L: 30
Has, S laughed out loud on that Rob comment.
Yeah, nothin like the ol blindside!
Who's Mark White? Do you mean Bill White? If so, wow. I will research him, but I'm about 95% leaning Perry. I'm not a huge Perry fanatic, but he's light years ahead of any 21st century Democrat.
I think Mark White was a previous candidate 4 governor. I don't know about Rob though, and since the Mark White joke was just as bad, sorry Reck, I'm not laughing. I'm not even smiling.
Reck -
> The secret to defeatn a scary dream is too imagine you will have a gun w/ you just prior to fallin asleep. W/in the next few scary dreams you WILL end up w/ said gun and you WILL use it to defeat whatever it is that's threatinin you
Excuse me Reck, but I don't think that having a gun in my dreams would help me.
1) It would weigh me down when I'm running around looking for my care.
2) It would weigh me down when I'm falling off the side of a mountain, maybe even enough for me to hit the ground before I wake up. :-)
3) I have no desire to shoot any of my cousin's.
Linda @ (time stamp) March 4, 2010 12:53 AM
:-)
Reck -
> Actually, i dream almost every nite, but I usually forget the dream w/in moments of waking.
I'll bet that your dreams are more realistic than your (so-called) reality.
Ok, I've imported my blog database into my old WordPress.com blog (remember that? It's what I started my blog with before I moved it over to my own server), and redirected my blog domain over to it, so my blog is back up using it's tbsn.thesequencers.us address. :-)
Whilst the MSNBC and Comedy Central embeds aren't working in my posts, the comments are all intact.
Not only that, we can now see Linda's and lafingas's Gravatars!!!!
They're quite similar, actually ...
I take it back. I don't think that the Gravatars showing are of pictures that Linda and lafin submitted.
Chatroulette -
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-4-2010/tech-talch---chatroulette
SuperTramp, Dreamer (video I've never seen until tonight, actually) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mRe2CskIRQ
And a few minutes after I posted my last comment here, I happened by C&L for the first time in quite awhile and commented something. It wasn't unnoticed ... -
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-357#comment-1473597
Bill...Mark...who cares....anybody (who's fairly coherent) besides Perry.
I've always felt that conservatives should hold "our guys" to a higher standard. Perry's a backdoor-dealin, elitist, good ol boy network shyster; he gives conservatives a bad name. The "vote for my party's guy no matter what" mentality (not necessarily accusin anyone here of that) is onea the main problems w/ our political system.
I agree with not voting for "our guy" no matter what. The primary is where we have a chance to put in the guy who's best. We both voted against Perry, but now that Perry is the guy to represent the party that we lean closer to, we have to decide who is better for the state. If you truly believe that John White is better for the state, then amen, vote for him. I will consider him, but after a perusal of Ted White's website, I'm going to have to go with Perry. Perry has made some decisions that I seriously disagree with, but he is pretty conservative. He's not Reagan, and he's certainly not Jesus, but he's closer than Bob White is.
"Bob White"
THAT cracked me up!
(fill in the blank) White is opposed to the Tran Texas Corridor and for decentralizin TxDot btw.
Nestor @ March 7, 2010 10:58 PM -
ROFLOL!
Reck -
> ... decentralizin TxDot
First let me spell it out for Linda: the Texas Department of Transportation.
Reck, TxDot is already decentralized. If you think that every time a state highway in Houston needs repair, that they dispatch a crew from Austin, you're nuts.
Stan says,
"TxDot is already decentralized"
ROFL!!
Your lack of understandin the power wielded by this enormous state agency isn't surprisin to me. The ironic part is that you're defendin a Perry controlled entity.
You are a bonehead.
So you do think that every time a state highway in Houston needs repair, that they dispatch a crew from Austin.
I'm *NO* surprised.
Now Reck, if you said the same thing about the TRRC (the Texas Rail Road Commission), I probably wouldn't argue with you about it. In fact, I'd probably agree (or I'd tell you that it was the other WAY around: the Commission controlling the Perry.)
It's about the dollars and who gets em Stan.
DUH!!!!
Stan said,
"DUH!!!!"
The most intelligent thing you've said in quite awhile.
And you haven't said *ANYTHING* over at my blog in quite awhile.
What's the deal, are you CHICKEN????
Are you YELLOW????
Nestor -
> ... I am a thinker. ...
I don't think that even lafin would dispute that. The problem is, is what you think about.
Stan *WHINES*,
"And you haven't said *ANYTHING* over at my blog in quite awhile."
Post an interestn thread and I might.
It's observing, my friend Reck. How about funny and/or entertaining???? I think that that is on my blog, even if you don't consider it interesting.
Stan cont's to *WHINE*
Reck continues an otherwise dead thread -
> Stan cont's to *WHINE*
Stan's faux complaint,
"Reck continues an otherwise dead thread -"
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