tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post6552361791515376470..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: #545Jim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-19913594711102688002015-07-17T15:08:09.093+01:002015-07-17T15:08:09.093+01:00A dream where you wake up still in the dream....ma...A dream where you wake up still in the dream....makes me wonder how many levels to our consciousness there are. Intriguing.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-23096421681578011552015-07-16T03:13:57.238+01:002015-07-16T03:13:57.238+01:00Yes, Kass, you could well say that. I do, I have t...Yes, <b>Kass</b>, you could well say that. I do, I have to say, veer towards the obsessive so I’m surprised I don’t experience nightmares or recurring dreams. I did have an interesting dream yesterday afternoon though: I dozed off on the couch and dreamt I’d woken up only to realise I was still in the dream whereupon I woke up for real. In the dream I’d been wearing trousers which is not typical around the house and that was what twigged me. Why, I wondered, am I fastening a belt when I shouldn’t be wearing one? Can only ever recall waking up in a dream once before. Fascinating though. In the last work-related dream I was a barrister by the way so they’re not all based on places I’ve worked.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-18054439138729806522015-07-15T17:54:25.719+01:002015-07-15T17:54:25.719+01:00I will not dream you...reminds me of:
I will not o...I will not dream you...reminds me of:<br />I will not obsess...I will not obsess...I will not obsess.<br /><br />Whatever nightmares are, it would be nice to arrange and control them. It would be even nicer if we could do the same with our conscious life.<br /><br />Childhood dreams:<br />...I am running and getting nowhere,<br />...falling off a cliff (always awaking before landing)...<br />...and the ever-popular - showing up for a test in a class I had forgotten to attend.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-46668772593131150672015-07-15T02:27:45.798+01:002015-07-15T02:27:45.798+01:00That’s interesting, Philip. I have actually wonder...That’s interesting, <b>Philip</b>. I have actually wondered whether the ‘switching on’ of my dreams was drug-related because it was only during my last nervous breakdown I started to take a drug called Lyrica. (I know ‘nervous breakdown’ is a term that’s fallen out of popularity but, like you, I still think is has some life in it.) I’ve not taken Lyrica for years now but the dreams never dried up when I weaned myself off it. Of course it may have nothing to do with the drug. We know so little about how the brain works who could tell me? It was back then that my memory issues started and those also never went away and I would gladly lose the ability to recall my dreams to have a clear head all the hours I’m awake.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-4819103642049728182015-07-14T11:13:14.219+01:002015-07-14T11:13:14.219+01:00You are fortunate in not having nightmares. I hav...You are fortunate in not having nightmares. I have been plagued with them for many years and remembered quite a few.<br /><br />When living in Wales in the early 1980s I had a nervous breakdown and was given a couple of drugs to help me through it. One was called Attivan, I think, and it seemed to give me terrible dreams/nightmares, one which sticks in my mind was of a huge black moth-like creature swooping down on me whilst in a darkened bedroom. I stopped taking this after a couple of terrifying nights.<br /><br />Recurrent dreams, I've had a few, quite a few actually, though again these have melted away over the past five or so years.<br /><br />Another succinct and meaningful poem Jim.PhilipHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811831703263176415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-53875511473959720992015-07-12T18:00:15.395+01:002015-07-12T18:00:15.395+01:00That’s another thing I’ve never had, Gwilliam, a r...That’s another thing I’ve never had, <b>Gwilliam</b>, a recurring dream. I suppose that’s a good thing. Not that I read much into my dreams apart from the obvious. What does recur is the setting which invariably focuses on an office or shop or even a warehouse; they tend to have large casts mixing up family, friends and co-workers from across my whole life and even the occasional celebrity but for the most part we all keep our clothes on. So pretty boring really.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-50952345753040311462015-07-12T14:15:06.097+01:002015-07-12T14:15:06.097+01:00When I was young I used to have a recurring nightm...When I was young I used to have a recurring nightmare that I was being sucked into a vortex or a spinning black hole and if I fell to the bottom I would die. I was a forceps delivered baby and I often wondered if that anything to do with it. That aside I don't think have had any (or many) nightmares. It's more the contrary, for example, had a recurring dream in which I could walk across the room without my feet touching the floor as long as I kept my legs moving, and I wondered why others couldn't master the technique.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.com