Midnight Madness
I'm not much for dream interpretation, but something is up with me. I do not have an OCD personality in my waking life. I don't sort my clothes by color and length of sleeve, none of my silverware faces the right way in the drawer, I can draw a stick figure and not have to erase it 12 times to make it perfect — so what the heck is with my dreams?
My dreams follow the usual pattern — I'm with friends at dinner, I have a deadline I need to meet and I can't find the file, I'm on American Idol and Simon loves me etc... (okay, not really the last one, but I just watched it and now it's stuck in my head). Lately these dreams have taken on a whole new dimension. In my dreams I have become obsessed with little details. I get caught up in the same conversation at the restaurant in my dream (like a broken record) because my mind keeps changing the color of my dress, or my shoes from flats to heels, or even what I order off the menu. Panic dreams (missing a deadline, having to make a speech, showing up for work naked, etc.) have me halting in mid-action to straighten a pile of papers or put all the caps back on the pens.
So, all you novice dream interpreters (actually I once met a woman who claimed to be one — she even had a a whole gross of business cards that said so) what do my nighttime meanderings mean? I feel like I should be in some trance or a Vulcan mind meld, so someone can get in my head and just see how very odd this is.
Tonight I am taking an extra dose of Melatonin and hopefully I will have a dreamless sleep — free of worrying whether my purse matches my shoes or whether I wore the right earrings. (If you know me than you know I have never cared — while awake, or asleep — whether my purse matched my shoes.)
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Interesting..
ReplyDeleteI also take Melatonin. Did you know that it increases your dreams and can make you dream more vividly?
I have a degree in psychology and in college took an entire semester of Dream Analysis and basically when you dream about the same things night after night, it's usually a problem/issue in your life or on your mind that you have not solved yet. You will continue to dream these items until you "fix" them.
You have to pick your dream apart to analyze it. If you dream about a resturant, write down resturant and say: If I were explaining "resturant" to an alien how would I explain it: then write until you run out of ideas.
Continue this with the rest of the dream, including the actions you take in the dream, until you have a strong descriptive narrative.
Go back and just read the narrative. For example: I described a resturant as "a place to go to escape hassles of my day, where someone else takes over, serves me, takes care of me but I have to pay for it". Look at JUST the descriptor and ask yourself: "What does this represent in my life?"
Pretty soon you see a pattern develop and a story unfold. I admit it's tough to do on your own, I tend to over analyze everything when it comes to myself so I am better at working with friends on this.
There are a ton of different dream theories and ideas on analyzing, this is just the one I was taught and has always worked for me. Hope I helped and I hope you come up with an answer :)
There is a speaker coming to town this week to talk about this very thing — dream interpretation. I might have to go hear him now.
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