Peter Deadpan
phallus impudicus
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I do.
Super neat.
I do.
I'm at the point of having normal mundane dreams, and remembering them just because I've put such an emphasis on remembering and journaling them in the recent months. And I'm like, "Why? These are the mundane boring dreams. There's no flying, no surgeries, no oddly-constructed roller coasters, no tornadoes, not even weird driving (there's normal driving). Why do I bother to remember and log these?!" And waking up enough to write them is taking a toll on my overall energy for the day (not a large one, just enough that I notice it). But I do it so I'll remember more exciting dreams in the future. At least the sexy dreams have stopped. I don't particularly like those. They rub me the wrong way. No pun intended.
I spent last night going through all my dreams notes and splitting them up by years and I plan to put them on Google Docs soon. Including 2017 I have at least eight years (the 2010 note includes older dreams I had committed to memory as well since I only started actively logging them in summer of 2010). I don't remember if I had a lot of dreams for early 2011, but if I did, I lost them. It was late, I probably cut them from the original and forgot to paste them onto the new. Because tired/sleepy and lazy lol. But still. Holy crap, I have logged a lot of dreams. Most of them without context so Freud couldn't really have a hayday with them. But I still find them interesting, even if I can't revisualize some of them anymore. Interestingly, I find it easier to visualize the older ones than the more recent ones.
Why do you think you have boring dreams? Do you have a theory?
Do the dreams ever predict the future?I have frequent and vivid dreams. I still remember what I dreamed about last night. I dreamed about a person I used to work with. No idea why. A lot of my dreams are about things that will happen in the future. There is worry or concerns expressed through them. I might dream about something I should be doing but forgot to do for example.
I wonder what elevators symbolize for you personally. They likely have an archetypal meaning for you.I remember my dreams around 80% of the time when I wake up, but I won't retain them with immediate recall beyond that point if I don't put concerted effort into recalling them. Though, occasionally I'll get a rare dream that is burned into my memory. Oddly, if I have a dream that involves elevators, I will ALWAYS remember the dream in it's near entirety. Not sure why, but elevators always make my dreams super vivid and poignent.
I usually analyze my dreams and can figure out what they symbolize mean for me. Sometimes they bring me insight into my own psychology, although I'm having difficulty thinking of a specific example right now. I know the obvious meaning of the recurring dream (with the moon crashing into the earth) has to do with feelings of loss of control. I have quite a few dreams about animals and feeling concerned about them. I once had a dream that many forest animals got into my house along with some weiner dogs.