Do you analyse the meaning of your dreams?

Hrm, I do NOT envy having periods.

Well that's just suppression. A trained feminist analyst would get the truth out of you

No, seriously, periods suck. But I liked how they used the same arguments as Freud did to prove something that is obviously #######4.

Women steal more pens in offices than men do. Freudian 'researchers' see that as evidence for penis-envy (which is of course the most parsimonious explanation for the observed phenomenon). Men engage in more dangerous sports that lead to injuries (bloody and painful.lol), which the feminist guys see as proof for the period envy.

Asuka wrote:He he. Why do I feel you were hinting at me. To be honest I really can't. I would have to know a good chunk of your life story.i.e. Spend time with you in real life for several months....of course I could do that but my fees start at one hundred Euro an hour.

Yeah I know, I was just being a bit silly I suppose.

I've never had a dream that felt as though it was a revelation or some sort of epiphany, although I've heard plenty of others describe that they have. I have had amazing insights on drugs though (of the few times I did them) and I don't suppose a dreaming mind is that much different than a drugged up mind, what with neurological changes and such (I made that sound REALLY scientific). So I'm not discarding that possibility. If you've gained some sort of insight from analysing your dreams, then good for you.

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I analyze dreams to a point, since mine are often have pretty obviously something to do with my everyday life or something that happened in my past. But I think dream dictionaries are complete #######4, there's no way that dreaming about one thing can mean the same thing to everybody. It's all about the context. If I dream about something completely random then I just chalk it up to my brain getting bored and taking me on an adventure or whatever. I can't think of any examples of meaningful dreams I've had off the top of my head but I guess basically I would analyze it the way I would analyze a short story to find its deeper meaning. Every author uses different symbols to mean different things (even though there are some literary conventions that are commonly used). You just have to look at the dream/story as a whole to figure out what it's all about, not sit down and be like "ok there was an accordion in my dream, that means some amusement and joy will take my mind off a saddening and depressing matter" (I grabbed that randomly from a dream dictionary website).

Girl Disappearing wrote:

At the risk of going slightly oftopic, I thought it was appropriate to mention that I am a lucid dreamer, that is to say, I often controll my dreams and am quite aware that my dream is indeed a dream.

I have lucid dreams about once or twice a month. I started having them about 5 years ago and didn't know what they were until I looked it up online. It's pretty neat.

I'd like to have lucid dreams. I've managed to try it a few times, but every time I did I lost control and randoms stuff happened again. Also, I wasn't quite sure what I actually wanted to dream about.

darklight wrote:

Hrm, I do NOT envy having periods.

Well that's just suppression. A trained feminist analyst would get the truth out of you

Hah! Yes mam, I admit it...

darklight wrote:Women steal more pens in offices than men do. Freudian 'researchers' see that as evidence for penis-envy (which is of course the most parsimonious explanation for the observed phenomenon). Men engage in more dangerous sports that lead to injuries (bloody and painful.lol), which the feminist guys see as proof for the period envy.

Sounds more like pen envy than anything else. I like the theory that men have an unconscious desire to bleed as much as possible though. Look at me, I'm bleeding! How cool is that, huh?

Seriously though, envy of being able to bear children actually sounds quite plausible. Personally it's not something I would envy, it sounds painful more than anything else...

The second one was about Albanians living in New York. They were very poor, so they had to live in skyscrapers they had constructed out of white plastic bits. I think it was mostly like plastic cups and stirrers. Obviously this was very unstable and one had just collapsed. I was in one next to the one that had collapsed, it was very shaky.

Well this one is pretty obvious isn't it? Collapsing towers must have something to do with castration anxiety.lol And being INSIDE anything means you want to sleep with your mother.

I think there are some more convincing techniques for dream analysis than Freud's one. I think one is that you have to say for everything that appears in your dream what it means for you personally. I think this might be insightful. But not because the dream itself has a message but because it reveals what keeps you busy at this moment.

Radovan, I'm sorry for this, but you were in my dream this night, or at least you avatar. I dreamt that I was on the forum and I saw that you had changed your avatar picture into a donkey. I feel like I have to apologize for this, but it was just a dream and it probably could have been worse. It think it was the donkey from shrek, which I think was quite funny. I hope you don't feel offended. I don't think you are 'stupid like a donkey' or anything. Maybe it was because the kitten is also grey.

darklight wrote:

The second one was about Albanians living in New York. They were very poor, so they had to live in skyscrapers they had constructed out of white plastic bits. I think it was mostly like plastic cups and stirrers. Obviously this was very unstable and one had just collapsed. I was in one next to the one that had collapsed, it was very shaky.

Well this one is pretty obvious isn't it? Collapsing towers must have something to do with castration anxiety.lol And being INSIDE anything means you want to sleep with your mother.

Well I would be anxious about being castrated, but then what guy wouldn't...

darklight wrote:Radovan, I'm sorry for this, but you were in my dream this night, or at least you avatar. I dreamt that I was on the forum and I saw that you had changed your avatar picture into a donkey. I feel like I have to apologize for this, but it was just a dream and it probably could have been worse. It think it was the donkey from shrek, which I think was quite funny. I hope you don't feel offended. I don't think you are 'stupid like a donkey' or anything. Maybe it was because the kitten is also grey.

Hah, that's awesome! It takes a little more than that to insult me.

There, now your have dreams that predict the future, creepy isn't it? Although I generally don't like it when people change their avatar, since I mostly recognize the person posting by the images.

Radovan, you are making my dreams come true.lol
Now I feel a little embarrassed. I actually liked the kitten, so I wouldn't mind if you change it back. Somehow, it makes me feel uncomfortable when I influence another persons behaviour - even though it is only a picture. I should especially watch out for the content of my dreams probably.

Well the donkey and the cat did switch bodies in Shrek 3! I guess it was only a matter of time.

I usually wake up and say "That was bizarre". Then I think about it all day and keep laughing at how bizarre it was. I'm somewhat of a lucid dreamer, by that I mean that I don't have total control of my dreams but I am always aware that they are just dreams.

Last night in my dream my contact lens popped out and started to grow until it was the size of my chest and the only way I could return it to normal size was to spray it with contact solution. Then I went to the bathroom and put my contact back in and put on a costume of a cat in a football (American) uniform and walked into the living room where my family was playing poker and started watching a tv show about wild baboons being abducted by zoo keepers.

I don't even bother to try and analyze my dreams anymore since I'm aware of them being dreams in the first place