Would somebody care to psychoanalyze this childhood dream?

Rathark · Post by **Rathark** » 2002-11-14 09:37am

Darth Utsanomiko wrote:EDIT: Rathark: You ought to get a job writing blurbs on the back of novels and movies. Your descritpion of your wierd dream in the first post sounded like poetry.

Actually, I've written the blurbs for all 4 novels in my series.

Rathark · Post by **Rathark** » 2002-11-14 09:42am

Darth Wong wrote:PS: Rathark, the sad thing about that psychobabble analysis is that there are people out there who will say that stuff with a straight face.

I know. A bachelor's course in communication and cultural studies will scar you for life

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2002-11-14 09:52am

What about scary nightmares?

Wakes up in the middle of the night hearing a woman screaming like it there is no more tomorrow. As the scream dies away you feel your heart is pumping like never before.
At least three times i have woken up by that a scream which didn't really happen but just in my head. I was scared every time.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-11-14 11:29am

Darth Wong wrote:What about people like me, who never remember our dreams? Any recollection of a dream seems to vanish into the mist as I wake up, with nothing but fleeting images that are, themselves, gone after 30 seconds. PS: Rathark, the sad thing about that psychobabble analysis is that there are people out there who will say that stuff with a straight face.

So what do you think is the purpose of dreaming? NOT to say that I think the psychobabble is correct, because I don't think that, but I think dreaming must have some function. Some way to filter the crap memories out and retain the important ones, maybe?

spongyblue · Post by **spongyblue** » 2002-11-14 11:44am

I think a lot of dreams are there simply because your brain is bored while your body rests. Its like the night watchman at a paper factory. Since all the action happens during the day, the night shift needs something to do, so it watches TV.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2002-11-14 01:06pm

Darth Wong wrote:What about people like me, who never remember our dreams? Any recollection of a dream seems to vanish into the mist as I wake up, with nothing but fleeting images that are, themselves, gone after 30 seconds.

[BS pop analysis]It means that deep down inside, you're really a young-earth creationist trekkie, struggling to find a way to express your love of Captain Archer under God. The '30 seconds' part implies you are torn between your Canadian side and your Chinese side.[/BS pop analysis]

...My god, that was fucking stupid. I wasted braincells on that?

Hell, let's just sum it up as 'you want to have sex with your mother', and leave it at that. I'm going to go eat some Honey Bunches of Oats now...

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2002-11-14 02:00pm

Actually, some psychologists believe that dreams are nothing more but the mind trying to interpret whats going on in the body as the autotomic system kicks in. That or its trying to solve something that occured to the person during the day in his sleep and dreams are nothing more but what the consciouss picks up from the shuffling around of the subconscious... but thats a far less popular theory then brain trying to interpret phisiological signs... maybe I should stop reading those psychological journels... simple fruedian answers, you want hot sex hence hell. The dinosaur one is that you want sex with brutish cowboys... Its so much easier to think Frued....