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Do you think we can only dream about things we've seen? And, I mean anywhere- TV shows, magazines, films, photographs, whatever?
Not sure about you but, my brain gets creative with places in my dreams. Only really the various places I've lived stay the same. Everything else becomes far more complicated.
Schools and work places suddenly have many more floor levels. Even places themselves are altered. So, I'll know in the dream what the place represents- somewhere I used to work, my school, a highstreet but, it won't be that place or, it will combine parts of that place with other places. I'm not so certain I have always seen these other places though. They are more like liminal spaces a lot of the time- including a feeling of uncertainty/ anxiety that something bad is about to happen.
Even weirder, my brain will remember that that particular place represents my school, college etc. So- I'll revisit it in future dreams and, the same changes will still exist in the same way. I think in my dreams, I am remembering earlier dreams- so I'm like- there's a lift there that takes me to a floor that looks like this and, I always get lost at this point or, jump to another place.
I believe even those poor souls blind from birth can sometimes have visual dreams though. So, where does that come from?
Do you suppose it's just something the brain can do? Create visual environments without the need of seeing them or, are we tapping in to something bigger psychically?
I don't tend to go for the whole symbolism idea in dreams. How can my brain know to dream of teeth falling out to try to tell me something? I wonder if certain physical movements while we are sleeping create some common dreams though- like flying and falling. I've heard that the falling dream happens because we moved roughly in the night, woke ourselves up and our brains try to make sense of it in the following seconds.
Dreams are so weird though. Amazing too. The degree of detail and immersiveness.
Do you think we can only dream about things we've seen? And, I mean anywhere- TV shows, magazines, films, photographs, whatever?
Not sure about you but, my brain gets creative with places in my dreams. Only really the various places I've lived stay the same. Everything else becomes far more complicated.
Schools and work places suddenly have many more floor levels. Even places themselves are altered. So, I'll know in the dream what the place represents- somewhere I used to work, my school, a highstreet but, it won't be that place or, it will combine parts of that place with other places. I'm not so certain I have always seen these other places though. They are more like liminal spaces a lot of the time- including a feeling of uncertainty/ anxiety that something bad is about to happen.
Even weirder, my brain will remember that that particular place represents my school, college etc. So- I'll revisit it in future dreams and, the same changes will still exist in the same way. I think in my dreams, I am remembering earlier dreams- so I'm like- there's a lift there that takes me to a floor that looks like this and, I always get lost at this point or, jump to another place.
I believe even those poor souls blind from birth can sometimes have visual dreams though. So, where does that come from?
Do you suppose it's just something the brain can do? Create visual environments without the need of seeing them or, are we tapping in to something bigger psychically?
I don't tend to go for the whole symbolism idea in dreams. How can my brain know to dream of teeth falling out to try to tell me something? I wonder if certain physical movements while we are sleeping create some common dreams though- like flying and falling. I've heard that the falling dream happens because we moved roughly in the night, woke ourselves up and our brains try to make sense of it in the following seconds.
Dreams are so weird though. Amazing too. The degree of detail and immersiveness.
