| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
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| Moderator: | JARETH::PAINTER |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 27 1997 |
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I had a dream the other night that has started me thinking about the
different content pieces of dreams.
No one seems terribly surprised to have nonsense dreams (not related to
anything), dreams with bits and pieces of our day's experiences in
them, subconscious messages trying to tell you something,
or, as I refer to them, current happenings (you know, the phone that
really rings that you incorporate into your dream).
About a week ago I had an amusing dream-lette (super-short sort of
flash dream). I woke up smiling thinking how silly it was. A few
evenings later I had another dream that referenced the previous dream
-- I was telling someone about a change in my lifestyle, the
change was the _other_ dream.
I woke up rather puzzled. How could one dream know about the other? I
thought about for a while and figured, well why not? In dream reality
(whatever that really is) who is to say that another dream isn't just
another optional piece of dream content.
Comments? Anyone else have any other additional dream pieces I've
missed?
-- Tracy
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| 1348.1 | for Future Reference? | MFGMEM::ROSE | Wed Sep 05 1990 08:24 | 27 | |
Tracy,
Thanks for your very interesting and unusual entry. Here's a quick
response, coming from a different point of view:
I think that your dream-lette (super-short sort of flash dream) may be
a hypnogogic image - it fits the description of that type of imagery
very well, although I don't know where it occurred in the sleep cycle.
I find that these images are often precognitive; they usually refer to
an event that will happen in the near future, usually the next day.
If the image is symbolic rather than literal, it's very difficult to
figure out what it's referring to in advance of the actual event. In
general, the images seem to depict something minor but out-of-the-ordi-
nary, some unexpected occurrence that has emotional significance for
the dreamer.
So, if your dream-lette depicted an event that happened, the event
itself and its significance to you might have become the stimulus for
the second dream, which your brain might have depicted in the same
way as it did in the dream-lette. It might have arrived at the same
picture - the lifestyle change - independently if the dream-lette had
never occurred. In the second dream the person you're informing about
the change may be yourself.
Virginia
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