Weird Dreams- Part II
"Alice," said the Queen of Hearts, "A nightmare is like a bit of code written by the worst computer programmer who ever lived."
"But Your Majesty, stammered Alice, "This is the nineteenth century. The computer won't be invented for another 100 years."
"I'm the Queen, child," replied the Queen of Hearts. If I say a thing is so, then it's so."
Last night I dreamed that a neighbor I had when I was growing up in Southeast Texas, but never knew really well, came over to my house. In the dream I was living where I live know, in the Texas Hill Country. He began to berate me about the overgrown state of the field of blackberries I had behind my house. He said that his blackberries had not made very well because I had not kept the grass cut in my field. That part of the dream is easy to understand because at work the other day someone was talking about going to a farm and picking blackberries, and I do need to mow my place. Then the dream got really weird.
My neighbor morphed into his wife. Let's call her Inez. I have not seen this woman or even thought about her for decades, and I never considered her a friend. She was not young, or good-looking, or sexy, and I have never had a reason to think about her. She began to fuss at me about something; I can't remember what about, but that is not important.
Why did I have this strange dream about people I never think about and who were never important to me? I went to this website, Dream Moods, and tried to find the answer. The only clue I could find that might explain this dream said that I was facing a humiliation.
This is about all I know about dreams, based on what I have read. We have some dreams, not very many, I call "big" dreams because they are about important things that happen in our lives. Most of my dreams I call "small" dreams. They serve an important function to help us maintain our sanity. Throughout the day our minds are bombarded with hundreds of sensory impressions that we never process. Often we are not even aware of them. When we dream, most of our dreams serve as a clearing mechanism to flush these sensory impressions out of our minds. Our preconscious or unconsicous (not sure which term is correct) cannot handle these sensory impulses until I attaches some sort of image to them. We dream in visual images. It selects the image that seems to fit and we have a strange dream such as the one I had last night. I can't explain why so often I dream about people I have not seen for decades and don't even want to think about. Any ideas?
"But Your Majesty, stammered Alice, "This is the nineteenth century. The computer won't be invented for another 100 years."
"I'm the Queen, child," replied the Queen of Hearts. If I say a thing is so, then it's so."
Last night I dreamed that a neighbor I had when I was growing up in Southeast Texas, but never knew really well, came over to my house. In the dream I was living where I live know, in the Texas Hill Country. He began to berate me about the overgrown state of the field of blackberries I had behind my house. He said that his blackberries had not made very well because I had not kept the grass cut in my field. That part of the dream is easy to understand because at work the other day someone was talking about going to a farm and picking blackberries, and I do need to mow my place. Then the dream got really weird.
My neighbor morphed into his wife. Let's call her Inez. I have not seen this woman or even thought about her for decades, and I never considered her a friend. She was not young, or good-looking, or sexy, and I have never had a reason to think about her. She began to fuss at me about something; I can't remember what about, but that is not important.
Why did I have this strange dream about people I never think about and who were never important to me? I went to this website, Dream Moods, and tried to find the answer. The only clue I could find that might explain this dream said that I was facing a humiliation.
This is about all I know about dreams, based on what I have read. We have some dreams, not very many, I call "big" dreams because they are about important things that happen in our lives. Most of my dreams I call "small" dreams. They serve an important function to help us maintain our sanity. Throughout the day our minds are bombarded with hundreds of sensory impressions that we never process. Often we are not even aware of them. When we dream, most of our dreams serve as a clearing mechanism to flush these sensory impressions out of our minds. Our preconscious or unconsicous (not sure which term is correct) cannot handle these sensory impulses until I attaches some sort of image to them. We dream in visual images. It selects the image that seems to fit and we have a strange dream such as the one I had last night. I can't explain why so often I dream about people I have not seen for decades and don't even want to think about. Any ideas?
posted by Jimmy in the Hills | Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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