Well tomorrow is Valentine's Day. And yet again I have no one to share it with. No gorgeous female to go out and enjoy a marvelous day together, holding hands, laughing, eating a great dinner, kissing under some starlight. Maybe another time.
Dreams
Ahhhh dreams. Not the kind people have that they want to achieve one day but the kind that come to us as we sleep.
We all have dreams. Some more than others. Some dreams are strong, some simply entertaining, some are vivid or even feel so strikingly real. Others, though, are dull and boring, while others can be a message.
We all sleep and we all dream. Some people can remember more of their dreams while other people think, or even claim, that they don't dream simply because they don't ever remember any of their dreams.
I remember when I was in high school, in my psychology class to be exact, that one of our assignments was to set our alarms accordingly so that we could wake up in the middle of one of our dream cycles and write down our dream when we awoke. It was awesome because it worked. I have since long forgotten how to do such a thing but with some research it wouldn't be hard to figure out. I'm a dreamer though and that's for sure.
I tend to wake up in the middle of my dream cycle more often than not and I remember a lot of my crazy dreams. I like to sleep. Too much in fact. If I'm having a good dream and I feel that I'm waking up I will just try to go back to sleep - it works sometimes. If that doesn't work I have to bridge the gap a little bit, meaning if I'm waking up but don't want my dream to end I take control of the dream and do what I think would take place only to bridge the gap so that I can fall asleep again - this has worked a few times. Then there are those times that you simply can not fall back asleep which ends in the death of your good dream.
I've had my share of dull dreams and plenty of crazy meaningless ones that made no sense. But I've had a few dreams that were so vivid in my mind from waking up that I could describe almost every little detail, I could most definitely tell you everything that happened in it. It is dreams like this that get me thinking - is this a message, and if so what is it? A lot of it could be nothing, or even all of it, but what if there really is a message there? How could you tell what it was, where in the dream would you focus, how would you be able to decipher anything?
I meant to post this a week or so ago because I had such a vivid dream. Now I know it may seem crazy but some people actually get messages through dreams. I'm not saying that I do all the time or even at all. But I have had some interesting dreams.
Example #1 - When I was little I would often have a recurring dream. It was ALWAYS the exact same. Always. I didn't have it every night. It was just from time to time. Then one day I stopped having it. And I was glad because this wasn't a pleasant dream. Years passed. More years passed. Then out of no where I had it again. Just once. But it was the same as it always was. Haven't had it since.
Example #2 - A repeat dream. I would say similar to a recurring dream but yet it differs(explanation coming). I had this crazy dream where I was in somebodies house, walking through their halls. I had a partner with me but I couldn't see them, they were a complete silhouette of a person, it was like I was looking at their shadow. We were in this house for one thing and one thing only. To assassinate a man. We walked through the kitchen and found him asleep in front of a tv that was displaying static. I grabbed a knife from the kitchen and approached the sleeping man from behind - and woke up. Years later I had this EXACT dream but missing links were filled in. Not much, but some. It showed a little more of how I broke in and the biggest thing was who the shadowed silhouette was. The girl I was dating at the time. I didn't know who she was the first time I had this dream thus she was a shadow of a person. Once we got to the point of where it started the first time I had it the rest was the same, with the exception of me being able to see my partner. I haven't had this dream since. It was a repeat dream, it repeated once but had more to it but yet was a bit the same, as opposed to example #1 where my dream reoccurred a lot and was always the same.
Dreams like that have to have some sort of meaning or message. It really baffles me sometimes. I have even dabbled in different books and websites that give meanings to things that were in your dream, a lot of them had different meanings for the same things. Me, I personally think that we will never truly know what a snake means in a dream, or if you got shot in a dream, or whatever. There really is no way to prove that anything in your dream means anything specific. It's an unknown world, our sleeping minds are mysterious in far too many ways, it is up to ourselves to interpret our own dreams - after all it is our own mind. It's kind of like a painter, others can critique it and think it means this or that or blah blah blah, but the artist interprets it the way he thinks because it is his painting. He painted it. Not someone else. It's his. Our dreams are our own - both kinds. =)
