Monday, March 24, 2014

Dreams

Some people have recurring dreams about losing teeth, showing up someplace important naked, or about being chased.  Sleep dreaming is not something I do regularly.  I'll have an occasional, nonsensical dream in which the premise is all but forgotten by the time I'm coherent in the morning.  The most common (which isn't that often) dream for me is when I've been doing something repetitive just before I go to bed.  Whatever it is, I will do it all night in my sleep.  That type of dream began when I started waitressing and bartending.  After particularly busy and late nights I'd wait tables and make drinks in my sleep and/or dream that I fell asleep in the restaurant/bar and got locked in.  Nowadays, I'm not working into the late night at school, but sometimes I will work on some monotonous task before bedtime like grading papers, reviewing student data, or researching for a lesson.  If that's the case, I will also do those tasks in my sleep.  Although they are terribly annoying and exhausting, they're not all that exciting in the dream department.

The last two nights, I've had two dreams that aren't my typical MO and that I remembered the next day.  Last night I took a test of some kind ALL NIGHT LONG.  And the night before was mostly spent on parking my car and trying to find it again...over and over again.  I didn't do either right before sleeping or at all during the day for that matter.

I don't take much stock in dream interpretation,  but I did look them both up out of curiosity.  It seems exams and parking the car are a common subject of dreams.  Maybe there is some truth to what the interpretation says...I can see some things that apply.  Interesting.

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  1. It could be the post I put up about the Khan Academy. Not that it of itself would be that dream causing, but coming from a oblique angle and one where you wouldn't expect might have gotten beneath the social layers to the personal.
    My theory for what it's worth is that dreams are the brains way of de-fragging the crap. But I also think we've a very odd way of filing data too. So, say, for you, filed under horse would be everything you learnt about them AND Lady Godiva. Then apply fears, particularly social fears and you get combo's of stuff that's just horrendous. I also think having specific bad dreams where ones physical form is involved, these can be solved. I doubt for instance the Hooters girls have all that many bad dreams about being in public, pelt on display. But, on-the-other-hand, their bareness might have developed into an armour and standing behind a lectern in tweed twin and pearls might be a blood freezing prospect.
    Odd though, all-the-same, men don't have the naked dream, -at least this one doesn't-, that I've heard. But I truly doubt any woman that's given birth in a hospital can have all that many fears in that region left. I happened to catch a bit of 'One Born Every Minute', where the usual delivery suite personnel is augmented with remote cameras. Generally there's four people and can go to eight, plus video, all eyeballing some chicks hoohah. The whole darn production had the live open-air show about it with the chicks legs acting as the wings of the auditorium.
    Oh, these shows are designed to prepare girls with the provision of real information so they aren't stressed, or over stressed. Sort-a Public Service Broadcasting, and it could be, it very well could be. But I expect the naked dreams vanish afterwords

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    1. I've heard of people having the naked dreams before the first day of school/work/something big they have to prepare for, maybe feeling underprepared. I've never had the naked dream either. I'd have to have the over prepared dream - maybe wearing too many clothes. :)
      I agree, to a point, that dreams are a way to process the things going on, but sometimes they are strange; too strange. After the test one, I was thinking about the Khan Academy as it was really the only thing that connects with a test. Just thinking about a math class gave me bad dreams. :)

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    2. (chuckle) youze welcome.
      More than dreams, what I find amusing are the sparks for blog topics

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  2. When I first worked at a bank....so many years ago...when people got their checks back in their statements. I use to help file checks at the end of the day....I use to file them all night long and wake up tired.

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    1. They are just the worst. I'd much prefer the crazy dream to the monotonous dream. At least the crazy dreams are kind of funny, at least the parts I can remember. I find when I have those repetitive ones, I have to wake myself up to stop it, but as soon as I fall back to sleep it starts back over.

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  3. Are you tired in the morning after those dreams?
    If I watch an action movie before bed I am diffusing bombs or frantically trying to escape...and I wake up tired. I try to stick to comedy :)

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    1. Oh yes, exhausted. The ones this weekend weren't so bad since I could just sleep later. :) But the work dreams stink. I work too much in my awake life, I don't want to do it when I'm sleeping.

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