I want you to think about your dreams and tell me what dreams are. But I don't want you to tell me anything you read that dreams are. I want you to make up something new, without caring if it is right or wrong or was ever said before. Just brainstorm about what dreams are.
Sometimes I have dreams that challenge me. So maybe dreams are ways to bring you into an appropriate frame of mind to do battle with the world once you wake up.
Maybe when you are asleep you are wandering far away from the earth, and the dream is part of the transportation back here, and tells you where you are going, namely here. So you are reminded oh yeah, this place.
I have recurring dreams about being lost in transit on trains, not knowing my way home. Maybe that is a way of saying that this is one place where you really have to be careful and keep track of things. Don't lose yourself. Maybe it is like a vaccine, showing you the disease so you will defend yourself against it.
Are your dreams fun? Mine aren't. Mine suck. Mine put pressure on me to solve a situation. Just as in life I always feel an undercurrent of pressure, I'm responsible for my wife and kids, I have to hold on to this job, to try to pay the bills, to do all the tasks that come my way at work, to not get fired. Like it isn't fun, it's responsibility. Basically I guess that life sucks. But I don't act that way. I don't run around like a chicken without a head. I don't succumb to pressure. I take my time and do things at my own pace, but I feel the pressure of responsibility 24/7, which is why I'm a good provider.
Taking on a family is like putting yourself in a yoke and pulling like an ox your whole life, which sucks. And they don't appreciate it. You enslave yourself for ingrates. Yeah, that's part of life. You keep pulling your rickshaw with your wife and kids in it, and they don't give a damn that you're pulling the rickshaw. If I set this burden aside and ditched it, they'd be up a creek without a paddle.
My dreams are like that. My life is full of humor. I take my time at work and don't stress out. My life seems pretty comfortable. Underneath it is this constant stress like electricity going through a telephone wire. Hey, keep your job, meet your deadlines, don't piss anybody off or you'll get in trouble and lose it all, pay your bills - and watch your family finances shrink at a pretty alarming rate sometimes, then see that your kid has $150 in text messages and the cell phone bill is $300.
I liked it better when I was the baby of the family sitting in a shopping cart being pushed around a supermarket by my parents.
They say life is a gift but I don't see it that way. Sort of a "thanks for nothin" kind of gift. I don't see it as a gift. I see it as a chore, as a responsibility, as a series of hurdles to jump, as a never ending responsibility. Somebody with a slave mindset like me makes a decent enough provider.
I see death as an escape, but not a depressing one. I think of me as a sentry on duty here, and when I'm called back home, yippee. Oh what a relief to be back home, back in heaven, back to being me, take off the yoke, say goodbye to Lennie, I don't have to be him anymore. Halleluyah.
My dreams are like that too. Preparations for the next day's burden. You wouldn't know it the way I kid around at work and at home. I just take the approach that I have a right to enjoy my day, so I will. In a way it's an act of rebellion. I demand and take the right to laugh and enjoy the moment. But my sense of responsibility is stronger than that. It can't be ignored. I can't drop the ball no matter what.
I refuse to put in overtime. I refuse to allow the stress to overflow. Hell with it, see ya tomorrow, I'm goin home.
Lots of stuff remains unfinished today? Yeah, no kidding. I could live in that office, work an 80 hour week, there would still be plenty that needs doing. Some people on the job come in on Saturdays on a regular basis. To me, the boss is a friggin pig. The hell with him. The employees shouldn't spoil him the way they do, without pay. Selfish prick put his son through Yale. Screw him.
So when the 7 hour day is done, I go to my car and hopefully get all the way home without a car accident or a traffic ticket from one of the many blood sucking mosquitoes cruising in their cars with those pinball machine lights.
I hope there's something good to eat for supper. What did I do all this for anyway? What do I get out of it. Donno. Beats me.
lfbno7 posted on Jul 02, 2007
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mommyof2 said on Jul 02, 2007....
Sometimes I think they are your minds way ofanswering questions, although it's in code and you must figure it out some do make sense. -
Trinov said on Jul 02, 2007....
Most of my dreams are anxiety dreams, some make no sense to me, some are on-going stories of places that re-occurr, places I never saw in real life but are so familiar, a certian city, a certain neighborhood...... Then there are dreams of recurring trauma. One was for years the Geometry Regents! I was sitting on a border kibbutz getting shelled, but I dreamed over and over of the damn Geometry Regents....... Then I had dreams of the future. for some unfathomable reason of the city of Haifa, which was a good place to shop but very boring and dinky 30-40 years ago, and I dreamed of it becoming modern with glass fronted buildings. And when we revisited it after about 3 decades for me, (less for my husband who was there in the army) I could identify the places from my dreams. It was uncanny. The buildings in my dreams were there or being built. I would have loved to dream of Jerusalem, but I only merited dreams of Haifa. go know. -
ladyinred said on Jul 02, 2007....
"the dream is part of a transportation back here"Perhaps. Perhaps our dreams highlight our reality, or indeed, create it.What do I dream of? Sometimes my fears of if I had failed. Last night I dreamt that my thesis was half done and I had just discovered that the deadline was days away. (In my sleepy wake, I remembered that this was not true: it had been safely handed in.) Maybe in this way they are our reality: or at least, our reality check.I also dream of what could be. Right now, there is a man (but not really). And I dreamt of someone not him - not anyone I knew, in fact. And I wanted this other one ...I met a fortune teller today. She told me that someone was going to make me very happy. I only wish she had told me which someone. ;) -
lfbno7 said on Jul 02, 2007....
i used to have dreams of living in a very big house with cats all over it, and you couldn't keep the cats out, they were neighborhood cats and they had free run of the house. maybe that dream had something to do with infidelity.
and there were very interesting rooms in that house. it was actually an awesome house.
i used to have dreams that i was in college but i had cut all the classes for months and i didn't have my schedule and i didn't know where i was supposed to be. maybe that meant that i didn't really follow the path i was supposed to follow, i just let it dissipate, and therefore i ended up drifting instead of going right to a great profession.
i often have dreams where i'm at a train station and i don't know which train to take, i'm really lost, don't know how to get where i'm supposed to go. doesn't that sound like the other one?
i can levitate into the sky in my dreams. it's more like floating than flying but it makes me feel special because the other people in my dream aren't doing that.
so often i have stress dreams. there is someone to contend with. there is someone to fight. walking through a really bad neighborhood looking for a bathroom, but even if i find one, it's filled with dangerous people.
i never just have fun dreams.
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Trinov said on Jul 02, 2007....
Hi, I also have had flying dreams, but not recently. And I still have dreams about showing up for a final without having studied anything all term. As a kid I would wake up and try to levitate but alas it did not work. I also have dreams of having to climb up or down almost 90 degree surfaces...... I can't remember a fun dream either. Oh, and used to have a lot of dreams of people going in and out of my house..... My cats however sometimes come into my dreams and act as alarms to wake me if there is a threat. That is wierd. This was especially true of my beloved cat Mitzy..... Some dreams seem to be real in a real place somewhen, and some are just our brains doing a head cleaning. But which is which? -
lfbno7 said on Jul 03, 2007....
as a kid i had recurring nightmares about Mr. Brown, a monster taller than a six story building, advancing towards my building. he never got there. someone suggested to me that the best way to avoid being eaten by a monster is to sidestep him. monsters only go forward so you can fool them by going to the side instead of running directly away.
i had a recurring nightmare of being trapped inside a car tire by a witch.
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Trinov said on Jul 03, 2007....
At least your dreams are very creative and could be very good science fiction material or at least sword and sorcery material, whatever they are in the subconscious sense. -
beyondtheveil said on Jul 04, 2007....
Ifbno7- I've had many violent dreams. Maybe I want to be a world conquerer.
Most of the rest are unbelievably stupid- I don't want to talk about that.
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anonymous said on Jul 04, 2007....
so do dreams come true yes they do.i keep dreamming of someone from my past but dont have any idea what they mean? and i found out that that person has been talking about me. so does that mean we will meet soon or what. this is realy crazy becouse when i fall to sleep i dont have a thin on my mind .ive had this dream for the last six weeks dont want to tell any one becouse they might think i'm crazy. i go to dream site's but they have no topic's on my dream -
lfbno7 said on Jul 04, 2007....
are you able to write a letter to that person or try contacting the person in any other way? that sounds like something worth following up on. why ignore somebody who you dream about? -
anonymous said on Jul 04, 2007....
no i wont be able to becouse she is married and idont want to start trouble .i would love to maybe these dreams would stop.i know when we were together if she wanted me to call her i got some type of feeling to do so and when i did i ask her and she said i was just think about you calling i dont know if my dreams now have anything to do with that. thanks for the reply
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