Re: virus: Dreams

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:53:18 -0500


Hi Tim, sorry to not get to respond to your question the other day about
Objective and subjective in relation to dreams. I dont have your post here, so I
am not exacltly sure of the wording - the jist was "dreams are a subjective view
of my objective reality". I do remember my answer - which incedently I have
mentioned before. I dont think humans can be objective. I think it is out of the
realm of human capability. I think my dreams are subjective collages of my
subjective experiences - basically pieces of my memory that may, or may not be
connected in any way - but appear connected in the dreamworld.

BTW - I too dream in color, and sometimes lucidly. When I was much younger, most
my dreams were lucid and some were mostly manufactured as defenses against
nightmares When I was young I had a lot of nightmares - and developed a memetic
defenses. I trained myself to revel in the fearof a nightmare - it was hard at
first, but eventually I convinced myself that the nightmares were just emotional
rollercoasters with no basis in reality. I learned to enjoy the ride and let it
go after awakening.

Now I pretty much just dream a lot, seldom intervene, and enjoy it always.

Bill Roh
Sodom

Tim Rhodes wrote:

> The Great Tinkerer wrote:
>
> >thats where the question: do i dream in black
> >and white? comes from. nobody remembers whether their dreams where in
> >black and white or color...
>
> I dream in color; vivid, high-saturation technecolor quite often. I'm often
> struck by the color schemes while in a dream or I'll change the colors of
> things myself.(I do a lot of lucid dreaming.)
>
> -Prof. Tim