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@RedCedar - WOW - I had some idea that people were interested in dreams, but really didn't know how much science has been thrown at this.
I tend to be a brief, but deep sleeper. When I am well I need no more than 5 hours sleep per night, but that is deep and dreamless. I wake up fairly suddenly, no slow-phase waking process - but stay in bed for a while, then get up.
The dreams I remember are often 'teaching' kind of dreams. My husband's very sudden death was totally traumatising for myself and my then teenage children (and one in her twenties) too - and I didn't know how life was going to continue. So I kept having these 'searching' dreams, searching for 'his' face, but often found when the 'person' turned round, there was no identity - I knew it was 'him' though - once such a person pointed to a house in a deep European-style forest for me to go and seek there; he then disappeared. I did make my way to that house, but never reached it, and there was also an unknown person on the way just pointing my way to the house - but I then woke up.
I realised from that dream that I must make my own way, alone, and I would be o.k.
I am a sane, practical person, am artistic, musical, read a lot, have written a book about a fellow poster on here - who- incidentally has the weirdest of dreams.
However, he - in his youth - has indulged in the now so vogue drug crazes - so he messed up his brain a bit, though, is still great with words. He has also been pre-programmed by an apocalyptic religion, which he still believes in. (I don't)
He dreams a repeat scenario of climbing up a mountain and then falling into space, or the ocean, or the scenery changes dramatically, and he is pushing through a narrow space, only to come into brightly lit places where people are partying. His dreams are elaborate beyond anything anyone could make up - he also changes into other critters at times. (So this confirms some of the weird things I have read in 'Castaneda's' books, which I took for real life reports, only found out years later, that they were made up - some was definitely based on drug experiences.)
Incidentally, I have never taken drugs, don't smoke, I like the odd good glass of wine, but was only seriously drunk twice in my life, and I am an old lady.
One more comment on the plane dream which I recounted on here - I was never able to verify the time - but did guess that somehow we always have an antenna open to the beyond, maybe spiritual things, definitely to our fellow human beings - and I was in 'reception mode' when I picked up on this huge distress signal emanating from people on the point of death. Similar to my mother picking up my distress signal.
I believe dreams are necessary, they are cleaning up the software of our brain . . .
Thanks for your interest - I now have to attend to cooking some meat I had defrosting, before Perth was hit by a power outage - we had an amazing thunderstorm - so necessary, the earth was pining . . . .
Good night
Take care, Dreamers
Tau
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