Dreams and Reality

Dreams and interpreting dreams gives insight into the inner workings of the unconscious mind. There are different kinds of dreams and analysis, you must have training for this you must know what you're doing.

To me it feels like entering another dimension a freedom and flow of thought wonder and miracle. I've often thought that I fell in a tunnel of kaleidoscope colours whirling on in and through to a dreamland, another dimension of sleep dreams of careless bliss and childlike happiness, I don't know if it is I thought I would like to write it down but it is too late spiralling and forgotten. Just my imagination! Can't remember it later felt so many times and as if I've made some very important discovery.

In the Bible dreams and their interpretations are of great importance, believed as messages from God, predicting the future, promises, warnings and think of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, Job, Jacob, Joseph and Pharaoh as well as Mary's husband Joseph.  A message could mean a blessing or a curse.

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There are daydreams too and are very real as fantasy, I think it's harmless I did a lot of it myself waiting in school classrooms for the time to pass. The opposite one might say is waking dreams. Awaking inside a dream, dreaming but conscious. It happens when a person realises he is dreaming. I had a lot of this when much younger thank God it stopped long ago. Perhaps it could be of some value other than entertainment, lucid dreaming isn't hard to learn but is not necessarily desirable you might find very difficult to unlearn.

At one stage it felt like it started when I lay down and closed my eyes, and ended when I woke in the morning, apparently then without rest. Just carried on continuously through the night and I could usually remember everything I found drinking makes it a lot worse. These experiences had repeated ideas and some common themes.

It seems to start first with night terrors. The dreams very often were really disturbing. There were horrible dreams “visions” even of hades itself but those of heaven were few and far between. They are characterised by amazingly complex detail such as hearing music or seeing familiar faces. I have told more of this in some other stories about dreams. With a broader definition I would call it hallucinations.

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In what follows I describe a few unnatural and some as harmful types of sleep. I have no training or study I am speaking only of experience and common sense and general knowledge.

Vertigo is common, as dizziness and disturbed balance seeing an overcoming blackness and losing conciousness. It is not at all like falling asleep it is more like going under anaesthetic or perhaps like going onto a coma. Often from substance abuse it feels more like taking the drug rohipnol  and “passing out”,  also of excess alcohol consumption or some other chemical as well as from physical injury as concussion. It is an unnatural kind of sleep and the story can be very unpleasant indeed. I believe at least some of these have to do with oxygen deficiency.

There was a guy in hospital who became catatonic, after breakfast he got up off his chair and he froze just halfway up in a very awkward pose. I've heard of patients for example lying on the bed with his head 10cm above the pillow, frozen like that. As far as I could gather his thoughts became so rapid and overwhelming that his mind had an overload and crashed and shut down. You might say his brain seized. He froze.

I know very little about it but hypnosis sounds like an induced state of semi-consciousness, it does look to me that it can be dangerous in the wrong hands. In narcolepsy a person just falls asleep suddenly without warning anywhere, I had a student who I think had it an Indian guy. Some animals like dogs can have it too.

I don't think so many people know but there are “sleep laboratories” I know there is one in Pretoria, what they actually do there I don't know it must be research.

Dreams are ten a penny … 
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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
 – William Shakespeare