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"If a dream wasn't perfectly normal, it would be the weirdest thing that ever happened to you." Interesting. Recently I dreamt that I was living in a slightly alternate timeline – still me, but unmarried and living with my parents (common in SG/Asia) – and we had a big fight https://t.co/zRqgtyvDX1
I woke up as I usually do from difficult dreams – elevated heart rate, shallow breathing, lots of muscular tension – and I calmed myself down. "just a dream. and interesting one, too – surprising that my brain has held on to the seeds of that fictional fight for so many years"
but it didn't occur to me to think – how much of this interpretation is shaped/informed by my understanding of dreams themselves, which in turn is shaped by pop-sci theory/ideology, and the reading I've done? WHAT IS A DREAM? it's subject to interpretation!
like, what if I didn't have any ideas about what dreams are? all I know is that I go to sleep and I experience these vivid hallucinations – even the word "hallucination" betrays my worldview. what if I didn't have an idea of what a hallucination is? I 😴 & experience things
apparently mesopotamians would tell their bad dreams to a piece of clay then throw it into water, to dissolve the destructive energy of the dream Egypt: also had this sense of "adverse effects of bad dreams". vivid dreams = you're blessed greeks: communion with gods https://t.co/H9VOWCqb2z
wack to really think about https://t.co/3LpjhyDxPQ
"sleep is just another state of consciousness" - @hankgreen https://t.co/9SFnNbFkei https://t.co/sqAT4b2pdZ
