I wish that we could say for certain what exactly causes the dreams that we have when we go to sleep. I have heard that all people dream every night, it’s just a question of whether they will remember any of it when they wake up. This is somewhat curious that I should be so interested in dreaming while we have been reading magic realism literature in my English class. The story Eyes of a Blue Dog is a perfect example of what I am curious about. In the story two people, a man and a woman, meet in a dream. Yet when the dream ends and they both wake up only the woman can recall what happened and the man has forgotten everything, Now I know that this is not just an occurrence from a story, I’m sure it happens in real life also. Maybe not the dream time meetings with other humans; I cannot be certain of that… but perhaps it could happen and if you cannot recall your particular dream from that night you would never even know.
On the other hand, supposing we could remember our dream upon awakening, if we could find a surefire way of knowing what the exact causes of our dreams were then we could have the control to choose what kind of dream we would want to have each night. For instance, I know for a fact that every time I read a magic realism story before I went to bed I would have very vivid and elaborate dreams, so if I want to have more dreams like that all I have to do is pick up one of the stories before I fall asleep. But beyond that I can see no reasoning behind the majority of the dreams that I have.
Maybe there is no real reason and the dreams that we have are just dreams… but I’d like to think that there’s more to it than that.
definitely. There is no way that my young motherhood dreams of being an urban guerilla were not related to my day-to-day existence! you may be getting to the point in your series where you want to consult the experts? (what do they say?)
ReplyDeleteI dig dreams so much, I often have around 2-3 a night which I can recall. Most of them are so abstract that they don't really make sense and some of them are more nightmares, but I like the adventure and randomness all the same.
ReplyDeleteYou should check out "Lucid Dreaming" - if you train at it you'll eventually be able to recall and control all of your dreams ^^
Anyway, naice blog you got here - I look forward to reading all your other posts properly :)