Me to My Subconscious: Shut Up & Leave Me Alone!
April 16, 2007
I’ve always been fascinated by dreams. I’m not sure if it’s the phenomenon itself or the fact that we know so little about them that intrigues me. I’ve done research on different theories surrounding the dreamscape and I’ve read more approaches to dream analysis than I should probably admit to.
Still… I wish there was a way to shut them off sometimes.
I love the dreams that make no sense. The crazy, on another planet, naked in front of a group of strangers oddities are fun. Even chopping zombies up into bits is just fine and dandy. The stranger the dream, the better… and the more interesting an interpretation can become.
No… the dreams I want to shut off are the realistic ones. The ones that involve real people and real situations. The ones about days gone by and past experiences. I want to shut the dreams off that remind me of people and times that will never be experienced again. I don’t like the dreams that rekindle feelings that I wish would stay dormant. I’d like to shut those off, please.
Some dream theory suggests that when your subconscious has unresolved issues, they surface in the form of a dream. The thinking goes that your brain can only spend so much time processing the same, unresolved stuff over and over without making you aware of it. And since our environment diminishes almost entirely during sleep, it’s during this time that our subconscious has the chance to make its wishes known.
If that’s the case, I’d love to sit down and have a one-on-one with my subconscious to find out exactly what it was thinking last night. I’d love to find out what sorts of unresolved issues are floating around in this head of mine. I want to know what would cause my mind to suddenly and sporadically throw my emotional past up in my face again.
Whatever the reason… it worked. I’ve been thinking about it all day. Thanks, subconscious. I got the message. Now what do you expect me to do with it?
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April 16th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Oh dreams. I had two very different experiences with my dreams in the last month or so. First a positive experience with a dream about some missing paperwork for a major competition. I woke up and realized that I had indeed NOT completed the paperwork and it had completely slipped my mind. I’m thankful that my brain broke through and sent me a smoke signal.
However weeks later, I was not as thankful when I had a very restless sleep with two very different nightmares in the same night. I can’t remember the exact substance (must be blocked from my immediate mind…) but I remember being exhausted the next day and a little leery about going to sleep that night.
I hope that tonight is a better night for you and your subconscious. Corny, but I must…. sweet dreams.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I used to have nightmares every night when I was a kid. For years that’s all I ever dreamed about. Eventually, I just stopped remembering my dreams and I’m convinced that it was my subconscious trying to protect me. Still to this day, I don’t remember most of them.
I guess it’s good when your brain works as a nice to-do list while you sleep. That worked out well for you. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could force that to work? Ya know… send reminders to your subconscious and run through them while you’re sleeping?
That’d be awesome.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
If you hate realistic dreams, you would HATE mine, haha. I’ve told you about a few of them..
I’ve always heard your dreams reflect reality. My dream dictionary kind of says the same thing…and the way things are interpreted are a little different, but pretty much make sense with it. (i.e. Dreaming of something/one dying means something new is going to happen…and dreaming of cannablism [which we all know i’ve dreamed about] means something is “eating at you” and it needs to be resolved) haha..lord knows where that got ME…
April 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
How much stock do you put into what your dream dictionary says?
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
I’m sure you remember the conversation we had about my “ESP” like dreams…remind me when I get back from VA to tell you about my Aunt and Uncles dreams that were connected…kinda crazy. I’m starting to really be interested in this subject…
April 22nd, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Ok… I’ll remind you about that and about seeing the newest member of your family.