Re: virus: Dreams

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:01:52 -0400


Well, I have dreamed many of these types of things too, including being the
opposite sex - BUT - my mind already had ideas of all these things, or the pieces
necessary to create them. A noodle on rollerskates sounds cool and unique, and it
probably is, but noth those elements are combined from things you have already
seen or imagined - just not together in that way. You know how babies are born,
Dragons are a very common imaginal entity - all and anything in your mind can be
thrown together in this collage we call dreaming. But you have mentioned nothing
one thing by itself that you never saw or heard of before. This is the problem. If
dreaming is just a biological function of the mind, then the information it uses
needs to be acquired from the sensory and experience memories of the person.
So - although we can experience the disjointed, imagilan realm dreams opens up to
us - the experience is still us experiencing ourselvs, like a loop.

Bill Roh
Sodom

P.S. In the serial killer dream, what was it like to be a killer? I have never
dreamed like that, but I do wonder about the feeling.

Zloduska wrote:

> sodom wrote:
>
> >I have dreamt that I was in space and I have dreamt that I was alone on a a
> >forsaken world - just like anyone else - But I watch a lot of sci-fi and read
> >non-stop. There is so much information that my dreamstate has access to
> that my
> >consciousness usuall isn't aware of.
> >
> >I love my dreams, I think they are cool, but the puzzles that my dreams
> assemble
> >are made using the info shoved into my mind over a lifetime (31 years).
> >Basically I cant remember dreaming anything I havn;t thought or
> experienced - or
> >I should say - I have never had a dream I remember that included aspects
> ouside
> >of my experience.
>
> I have, I think, and many times. What I mean is that sometimes I dream I
> am someone or something I am not. And so if I am not myself, I would
> include that as being "outside of my experience".
>
> Among the wacky things I have done/been in my dreams, such as a baby dragon
> named Marsha, a serial killer, a giant pale-blue spagetti noodle on
> rollerskates (my friends were pink), a variety of inexplicable "life" forms
> that were neither human or material, different animals, and several months
> ago I had a very startling dream that I watched myself _being born_. The
> thing is, I was brought here by c-section. My point is, I've 'experienced'
> through dreams many things that I could not otherwise fanthom.
>
> ~kjs