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June 25, 2004
The Things that Dreams are Made of
I made a not so surprising discovery this afternoon when discussing dreams with my dear wife. (Strange, I haven’t really mentioned my wife yet on this blog since the marriage. So, BTW my wife is wonderful and I love her.)
I was recounting a lengthy dream that I “received” the night before. No it wasn’t anything prophetic or even remotely special. In fact it was a dream about attempting to trade my cell phone in for a new one. But, anyway, it hit me that as to why dreams can seem so long but when you try and explain the events of the dream I at least always find myself disappointed and unable to explain the crux of the experience, which is always the very real quality that the dream takes on.
Dreams (for me and I assume that they are this way for everyone) are an espresso shot of emotion and as a man I am almost always confused by any and all emotion that I have. Dreams are an emotion wrapped up in a vivid picture. I think that the reason why the experience seems to last so long is that emotionally you are experiencing time. So that when I am attempting to convey the dream to someone all I am able to do is communicate the events of the dream which in themselves are benign of the intense feeling and context if you will in which they were originally “composed”.
Anyway that is all I have for now on Dream Theory. I really don’t know what anyone important would say on the subject. For that ask the Psychology Major Mat.
Posted by paul at June 25, 2004 10:57 PM