dreams

[greenfairy]

My dreams are very Se. Maybe most people's are. Very vivid, very structured in a sense of physical surroundings, and I always have a sense of my position relative to things. Lots of buildings, natural scenery, details, feelings and sensations, being in high places and scared, lots of food and clothes. Sometimes I'm aware I'm dreaming, but always (since I was a teenager) I have control over what I do. Perhaps that's a form of lucidity.

I took a four hour nap in the library at school, and had a lot of dreams. Since I woke up a few times and wasn't in a deep sleep, I incorporated where I was into the dreams. At one point I was walking to campus but it was in a completely different city, somewhere big like Atlanta. But the library was there. On the way I met a pretty girl and sat with her in a chair, and we became friends, and then when I was leaving she kissed me. I've never had such a positive social experience of that sort in a dream. Things must be changing in my unconscious mind. I also had a sort of boyfriend in the dream. We walked down the street in the city and laughed and sang a song. Then he ran off after an ex girlfriend to talk to her, so I went on to school. In another point I was in the library and they were showing a movie which I thought was something, but then I realized it was Legally Blond instead. I didn't watch it. At another point I was in a restaurant in the top of the library (which doesn't exist in real life) and the IXTJ guy at work was there talking to an Asian guy who had ordered a bowl of soup with an octopus in it. I thought it looked and smelled really good, and I wanted to order one, so I talked to him and he said I could. (But I didn't get to.) Then I was on the top of the library and I think the guy in my philosophy classes was there (or it was a different guy). I think there was another girl there too. He was daring me to jump off the roof, and I wouldn't, but the other girl did. I knew it wasn't so high that if I did I would get badly hurt, but I didn't want to take a chance and I was afraid. I was then on the ground beside the building, and looking up at the walls, which were white and covered with vines, barbed wire, and ropes. I realized I could have climbed down with the ropes, but that I probably did the right thing because they were rough and might have cut my hands.

Last night I dreamed I was in a contest of snowboarding down a big hill of waves. I didn't want to because both heights and big bodies of water scare me, but I had to for some reason. This other partly African American girl did it and she was really good. I didn't trust myself not to do it wrong and fall into the water. I asked if I could go to the bathroom and change my clothes, which I knew was going to take time and which I should have done earlier, but it was necessary. I took too long, and had to be naked in front of some other people in the room. Eventually I didn't have to be in the contest after all because I had waited too long.

 

[Thalassa]

Hmmm.

I don't know if my dreams are very Se. A lot of my dreams involve some kind of puzzle (like being lost in the lingerie section of a department store of the mall, or Mormons trying to trick me that I'm in heaven, but I'm just in a Hollywood prop stage), or chase (nightmarish stuff, like men chasing me, or for some reason not being able to walk or run, and having to climb up a hill or crossing a road by crawling), or magical special powers like being able to breathe under water or fly.

Maybe we experience a lot of our rejected or shadow functions in dreams.

I dream in color. I have heard of people who say they dream in black and white, and I don't know if that was just people born into the generation where they watched a lot of black and white television and film.

 

[greenfairy]

Haha Mormons trying to trick you. I do think we experience shadow functions in dreams, because they are in the unconscious. I wonder how you would experience Ti then? With the "puzzles" maybe? That's weird people dreaming in black and white. I've never done that. I think I'd be freaked out. My dreams used to involve being chased when I was a teenager and younger, but I think I faced those fears.

A couple of nights ago I dreamed about being at my Grandma's house and it becoming filled with cockroaches. Uugh!

I thought about posting more of my dreams, but I don't know if people would be interested in reading them. I'll just post the particularly interesting and vivid ones.