This blog will be moving over to Of Frost and Starry Nights as I move into a new stage of my life. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be moving posts that I want to keep from this blog and all new posts will be posted there.
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One of the things that I’ve been working on is actually paying attention to my dreams and trying to remember them. Oddly enough the main problem I’ve actually had, outside of trying to find the time to write down the dreams (my schedule right now is not very lenient), is the fact that when I try to write them down, there’s too much to write down. If I concentrated on the dreams as soon as I woke up , I found that my dreams were really complex and long and it was pretty overwhelming in all honesty. Most people talk about only being able to catch snatches of dreams when they first start dream work, so I’m a bit at a loss of what to do in all honesty.
But there’s also a lot of things I’ve learned about dreams in my work with them even if I only pay more attention to them instead of dutifully write them down. Here’s a few of them:
– Dream dictionaries don’t usually work for me, mostly because I tend to interpret dreams based on my own personal associations since context is important and universal symbol systems aren’t applicable to all contexts. Also fictional characters tend to appear in my dreams far too much and I’m pretty sure dream dictionaries don’t cover them.
– That within dreams I sometimes remember other dreams I’ve had that I wouldn’t remember while awake. I’m not sure what this means other than that sometimes I forget that it was a dream and I end up thinking as if this has happened in real life. Which is odd when it’s a dream that certainly hasn’t come true when you’re awake.
– That I have a fair number of “creepy” dreams that aren’t nightmares. Nightmares I usually define as something that leaves me afraid while creepy dreams are just…that. Creepy, but not so much that they bother me. Sometimes the two coincide, but not always. I blame it a lot on the darker fantasy I often prefer to read.
Dream work is honestly one of those things I have a hard time talking about because of how personal my dreams are. I have my general observations about how they work for me, but the specifics of the contents tend to be something I don’t like to share. I doubt I’m the only one who does this though.
Paying attention to them has already helped a great deal with my personal work, however. I just can’t really say how exactly at this time.