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dreamt is too a word
by mg at 08:56 AM on July 02, 2001
I once heard that no one cares what you dreamt about unless you dreamt about them. I don't know if that is true or not. But if it is than maybe you should leave now 'cause unless your name is Cokie Roberts I haven't been dreaming about you.
Okay?
Still here? Good.
This is really only as much about my dream life as anything on this site is really about -me-. Which is to say, I guess, a lot.
I am not a person to ever remember my dreams. When I was younger I was forced to go to psychotherapy. Every week the shrink would ask, "So, what are you dreaming about?" I’d always say, "I don't dream." He'd say that is impossible because every body dreams. And I’d say, "Well, there you go."
As an aside, he'd also frequently and randomly ask what I was thinking about at any given moment. I'd usually say "nothing" which would bring about a conversation similar to the one recounted above.
Despite the consternation it caused my shrink at the time, it was, on most occasions, the truth. And despite what you might think, my non-thought didn't so much suggest mental retardation as it did to belie and foreshadow my current Buddhist leanings.
On the other occasions, however, it was a lie. I was thinking. I just didn't want to talk about it.
… continued later today
comments (3)
I've just started reading the Sandman comic series and it has gotten me to think about my dreams. I can't remember the last time I had a dream. I think that I have dreamt things, but I can't remember them. I used to dream all the time and I could remember most of what happened. They would be wild and fantastic dreams where I am doing something extraordinary. Now, there is nothing. I hit the pillow and wake 2 minutes before the alarm goes off. Every day. I think that this 8-5 work routine is getting to me. I need to find my creativity again.
by Josh at July 2, 2001 8:02 PM
dreams, hmm...well one of our great american philosophers has said "don't fall in love with a dreamer". okay, okay, i'm so *not* funny i feel like i punched my ownself below the belt. just stopped by for my fix man. hope we get to hear about some remembered dream snippet in your continuation so that we can all armchair psychoanalyze it. right here in the good ol' comments section. could be fun.
by mic at July 2, 2001 11:40 PM
The dream i remember the most was, and made me feel all wierd about was one i had when i was about 6. I dreamt i was at my cottage, and my parents were having a big bash, and all their friends were drunk and being mean to me, but i couldn't find my parents. So i went to the local dump (a very small one, mainly for the 200 some cottagers) and on the other side of the ridge was a bear. Not the normal type of bear, but one the was standing on two feet. The bear said to me "All will be well, and those that have been mean to you have died". That scared the shit outta me, and I woke up. The weirdest thing that happened though was the day after i had this dream, a lady drowned on my lake (of about 20 cottages cramed on this little circle lake), and she was one of my good friends mom who was kinda mean to me sometimes. So that freaked the shiot outta me. Psychoanlyze that.
(sorry for any typos I may have created, i have a bandage covering two of my fingers)
by Flipside at July 3, 2001 9:48 PM