The Owl's Nest-The Nocturnal Imperative

[NeoFighter5]

. . .huh?. . .

. . .if indeed we dream what we go through or ideas we have. . .are nightmares supposed to be our fears???. . .oh well. . .sweet dreams, i guess. . .

[lonbilly]

If are fears our nightmares, then that means....................oh dear.............

[Miss Lockheart]

Oh man I love your avi lonbilly!!! (hehehe gay KH ^^)

I wonder if nightmares are intentionally scarier than our actual fears in order to shock us into facing them?

[Terminal Est]

But do nightmares truly represent one's worse fears?

[Miss Lockheart]

That's what I'd like to know, considering the randomness of dreams

It's not just fears, there are all sorts of emotions that come out in dreams. I've had dreams about things I wasn't even aware I'd thought about!!! Hehehe kinda like my brain was having an afterthought in sleep *_*

[Firesnake]

I don't think that nightmares represent ones fears .. because I have no fears
But I guess that heaving dreams is just the way of the brain to explain the sudden rest state

[Terminal Est]

Which would explain the randomness, or perhaps an analysis of your emotions, but which really does not interpret anything.

[Zotar]

I really prefer to think of dreaming as defragmentation. That is, when they are not premonitions, though one hardly remembers those such dreams any way, which really bugs me...

You'd think you'd remember a warning. I'm thinking i should like keep a dream diary or something, to help me remember stuff, even the randomest bits and details. And be able to writre them down while the're fresh in my mind.

[Miss Lockheart]

Apparently keeping a dream diary is a good way of keeping your mind healthy as a matter of course anyway, since you are put in a position where you must do your best to recall those dreams in detail, and of course there's an element of creative writing too. You should give it a try, whether you have premonition dreams or even just seemingly small pointless ones. I tried keeping a dream diary, but found that my memory recall was just too unreliable

In fact my memory in general has suffered over the past three 1/2 years, one of my plusses at school was my good memory and now I have trouble remembering the most basic things. But maybe with the erratic nature of my dreaming my mind is just not "defragmenting" itself properly, and I should give dream diary another go, as a means of manual defragmentation. Definitely give it a go Zotar, and I will too ^^

[JET73L]

That's the typical explanation for dreams, your mind sorting the3 day's memories and thoughts into files to keep or forget, and the effects of such memories being seen fragmented and somewhat incoherent (I think, if that's so, that coherent buit surrealistic dreams are a person;s way to try and understand the dream). The dream diaryu idea is interesting, but I haven;t found it to work, perhaps writing it to a word processing laptop program will work better. Hope it works for you two, looking to see a "dream journal" thread if you find it successful.