Looking over our archive , I ’m noticing we wish to post about eternal rest and sleep - related substance abuse . Last winter , Higgins wrote a fabulous post aboutlucid ambition , or dreaming you’re able to control . Ransom has had a few nerveless postal service on ambition - related topics , including an exceptional one demand reader whether it’ssmart to wake a sleepwalkeror not .
I ’ve long been fascinated by dream and even used to keep a ambition journal when I was go away through a Freudian phase , obsess with his writing inThe Interpretation of Dreams . Freud suppose pipe dream were full of symbolism tie to our cryptical desires — thing repressed by the super - ego during our waking life . But asleep , the more primitive i d is gratis to run around and figure out out care fulltime through two freestanding layer : plain cognitive content , which is what the ambition seems to be about on the open , and latent content , or the hidden substance of the aspiration .
Of course , Freud was hardly the first to place great importance on pipe dream - states . In ancient Egypt and Greece , dreams were thought of as the most verbatim means of communicating with the Gods . I ’ve also read that in ancient Rome , some physicians even used ambition to help oneself them diagnose illnesses .
Lately , my dreams have been in earnest supersized . Not certain if it ’s the new vitamin I ’m taking or what , but last week , for instance , I had the wildest dream in which I was playing the genus Viola ! beware you , I do n’t know the first thing about playing a bowed stringed instrument instrument . As you saw inmonday ’s On Music post , it ’s quite difficult . But in the dreaming I had full mastery of the instrument and was producing the most glorious , racy tint I ’d ever hear . Do n’t exactly think back what music I was playing , but I wake from the ambition thinking I should call a violist friend , take over his axe , and see if , in fact , I really COULD play the viola . That ’s how vivid the dream was . As of this posting , I ’m still examine to figure out the latent cognitive content ( though I ’m sure I roll in the hay what former Freud would say about that genus Viola prow ) .
What about you guys?What ’s the coolest , most graphic dream you ’ve ever had ? Or the scariest ? The most surreal?If you ’re not sure what it meant , maybe another _ floss reader can facilitate you out with her / his own interpretation .
