Imagination Unleashed!
NB: I Do Not Believe in "interpreting" dreams, and further, believe those who claim to do so for others are charlatans at worst.
Neverthless dreams commonly cite real places, events or people even if wildly distorting the truth. They are purely phsyiological of course, thought to be fleeting by-products of the brain re-organising and refreshing memories. Very fleeting too - dreams typically last only seconds to illustrate what in reality would take far longer.
Yet mine are commonly "weird" not for their narratives, but their settings.
For example, though I retired nearly ten years ago I sometimes dream about work, placing two or three known people among unrecogniseable palimpsests; but creating totally unreal versions of the premises.
Or I dream of ordinary activities with a few of the many real people I have known over many years; but in a totally fictitious setting such as an imaginary town - and that in far finer detail than it paints the characters.
I'd love to know what is really happening to create such dreams - not spurious third-party "interpretations" or New-Agey pseudo-spiritualism - but I don't suppose we'll ever really know!
(I think the physiology of hypnogic dreams including sensations of falling or pressure, is now known to a fair level. I have had both the falling sensations and the hypnagogic hallucination that turns a familiar object in the dark room, into something nasty.)
Neverthless dreams commonly cite real places, events or people even if wildly distorting the truth. They are purely phsyiological of course, thought to be fleeting by-products of the brain re-organising and refreshing memories. Very fleeting too - dreams typically last only seconds to illustrate what in reality would take far longer.
Yet mine are commonly "weird" not for their narratives, but their settings.
For example, though I retired nearly ten years ago I sometimes dream about work, placing two or three known people among unrecogniseable palimpsests; but creating totally unreal versions of the premises.
Or I dream of ordinary activities with a few of the many real people I have known over many years; but in a totally fictitious setting such as an imaginary town - and that in far finer detail than it paints the characters.
I'd love to know what is really happening to create such dreams - not spurious third-party "interpretations" or New-Agey pseudo-spiritualism - but I don't suppose we'll ever really know!
(I think the physiology of hypnogic dreams including sensations of falling or pressure, is now known to a fair level. I have had both the falling sensations and the hypnagogic hallucination that turns a familiar object in the dark room, into something nasty.)
