How much to dreams affect your daily life?

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I mean in terms of desires realised, connections between ideas established, that sorta thing...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, they can sometimes make me think about things more than I otherwise would have done.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I had too much to dream last night...

Erm, sorry. Proper answer later.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I very rarely remember dreams or daily life.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

dreams as in ambitions? fairly heavily.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

dreams as in the ones one gets when asleep...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

sometimes i remember people in my dreams that i forgot about a long long time ago. i love dreams. i recently bought a huhe book about dream, what they mean and stuff like that. its very interesting. dreaming is what we are subconsciously thinking and dreams are free. they dont have restrictions like life nowadays and thats what i love

― CAss (CAss), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dreams, as in the ones I have when I'm asleep?

Oh, not nearly as much as the other kind. I mean, if I have a dream which I actually remember more than ten minutes after I wake up, I tend to view it as a "wake-up call" (ha ha) in terms of "hey, my subconscious is really stuck on this, maybe I should pay attention and try to figure out what it means."

It's fairly easy for me to sort the "hey, pay attention" dreams from the "just digesting the day's events" dreams, but as soon as you start paying too much attention to dreams, it's easy to mistake the latter for the former.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

thats very true however i must admit that i depend entirely upon my dreams. throughout the whole day ill day dream about how life could be so much better. im so much of a dreamer that i even forget how crappy life can get sometimes.

― CAss (CAss), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I find that the ones i don't remember properly can be as affecting as the one's i do. In so much as seeing someone can bring back some buried fragment of a dream, and my reaction to that person is affected.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

once i had a dream that i was in love with this boy who in real life i never speak to. the next day when i saw him i remembered my dream and was uncertain whether i liked him or not!!
dreams can easily affect the way in which i view things

― CAss (CAss), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a dream last night that I was seeing Britney Spears, it was odd, I had a similar dream about Kylie once, it's not like dirty sex dreams or anything, and if it was I wouldn't post about it, that's the weird part, I dream of inane chit-chat with global pop celebrities.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ive had sex dreams. theyre very weird.

― CAss (CAss), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

you should try sex.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Ronan, in cases like that, I usually wonder what it is that the random celebrity *symbolises* to me, and why my subconscious would be chatting/friendly with them. Also, examine your attitude towards "chit-chat".

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Interpreting people's dreams is my favourite hobby (and perhaps the greatest of my talents, modest as they may be...). the best way to do it is to treat it like your doing lit.crit. and that all the symbols make sense.

having some nasty detail about the person your analysing to bring out, in order to batter them into agreeing with you is always handy...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Alright, Robbie, have a go at this one. The other night I dreamed about riding down Southampton Row on a horse. No, I wasn't naked, which was what both HSA and his mum asked when I told them about the dream. I think I was trying to escape from being falsely accused in some Tudor plot or something like that. What does that mean?

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmmm. I don't know you at all, so more details would be needed: where's southampton row, what's its significance to you...

also what does escaping some tudor plot remind you of. did you watch something/read something with something like this in it...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

We're expecting a bit more than that Robbie!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Southampton Row is the street where I live. Tudor plots... hadn't seen anything recently. But hrmmm, I'm obsessed with history, so it kind of signifies a lot of things. I mean, I got to be Queen on the Tudor ILE thread, after all!

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

im reading a book on how to interpret dreams. its very interesting. i have some very fukd up dreams. mostly nightmares

― CAss (CAss), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I enjoy inane chit-chat.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Then you are projecting yourself into a life of fun with Exciting Celebrities! That will be £60 for the next hour of therapy, please!

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose this is for the musicians among you - but who has musical dreams where you entire songs or pieces of music but which, inevitably, you can never remember when you wake up. Actually, you don't need to be a musician to do this of course, silly me.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

my guess Kate is that it is something to do with not being welcome anymore at where you live, or perhaps making yourself not welcome. The people around you are holding you back somehow? i dunno. this is starting to sound like a horoscope.

or maybe my gift has left me?*

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes oh yes oh yes, Dadaismus that happens to me. If I'm lucky, then I can remember them and write them down. But mostly they are gone when I wake up, and that is so upsetting, because they are always the PERFECT SONG which is just out of reach... sigh.

(d'oh x-post)

Whoa, Robbie, that's actually incredibly accurate, but maybe that's the horrorscope thing. (actually, no, not, because it's my subconscious that's spitting this stuff out.)

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i might have to pull out the old freudian not-just-a-river-in-egypt closed ideology thinking now...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry i misread that totally as U saying incredibly inaccurate! ignore the last post as being thoroughly meaningless...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I think *that* was a Freudian slip on your part!

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

my paranoia is evident!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Dadaismus, yes I get this, it happens when im on acid too.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OK Robbie - constantly dreaming I'm playing pianos and/or organs (oooerr), what's that all abaht then?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't do single images. i don't buy (literally and figuritively) those books which tell you what images mean. I need lotsa details.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

okay my turn. I used get recurring dreams as a child, they would just consist of very fine sand flowing over extrememly jagged rocks. The sand was so fine it was almost liquid. The feeling it gave me was quite euphoric. What does (did?) this mean?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Recurring dream: dusty, cobwebbed old house, find a piano/ organ/ harmonium in a corner and play it. Obviously refers to the fact that I should still be doing music or something creative instead of faffing around doing fuck all.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

dusty cobwebbed old house: you've chosen modern, neat but unromantic life over a romantic artistic one?

my guess Ste is that your dream was a very early childhood memory the significance of which is lost to you... (Cop out!)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Robbie, you see into my darkened soul with the penetrating gaze of some kind of demigod

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

... either that or it's a good guess

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the first dream I ever remember having (I was v. you and it recurred, quite often) was of being on some kind of victorian cobbled street and being trampled to death by horses that were pulling a carriage.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I was never v. you but I was v. young, for a while.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hey there's only so many guesses have to be right before you become a demigod!

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― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Robbie is good at this! In another era, he'd have been BURNED AT THE STAKE AS A WITCH!!!

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i want my money back

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry ste. but it's a childhood dream...that's a whole different logic at work...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(I wonder if I should tell him about The Welsh Dream...)

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

oooooh! what's the Welsh dream?????

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Kind of something similar here:

"I dream of symphonies"

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I was searching in the archives but I can't seem to find it, only me referring to it.

I've had this recurring nightmare my entire life that I wake up and the National Language of Britain has been changed to Welsh, and no one will speak English any more. I wander around helplessly, knowing that everyone *knows* how to speak English, yet they persist in speaking Welsh.

I'm not sure if it's because I was traumatised by Welsh Language television as a child, or if it's a result of moving to America, where everyone spoke the same language but meant different things with the same words. I get it whenever I feel particularly alienated.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha! good dream! you seem to have pretty much explained it...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep waking up to the Today programme on Radio 4 and then falling back asleep while it's still on. This has led me to have the oddest dreams (hard to analyse as well) as my brain tries to contextualise what's being said. I think i imagined yesterday James Naughtie comforting someone by asking them repeatedly about Bin Laden's truce.

Today i just got the impression that everybody was writing books about Iraq (myself included) and i was just shouting Loggorhea, Loggorhea (sp?).

they can be nice half understood radio dreams, but not these ones...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

can you see the marriage thread and explain my juliette lewis dream?

― boo, Friday, 16 April 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

They can actually effect you in many ways. For instance, if you have had an encounter with a scary or frightening day, you will most likely have a scary dream, or also known as a nightmare.

― Julie Hamilton, Monday, 1 May 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

+1, Informative

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Julie, isn't that your daily life affecting your dreams? The question asks about the other way around.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Nice one, Cmd Taco.

― mei (mei), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

The novel I've been writing for about two years started as a dream.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

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