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[Easter Clark]

[PeteJB]

The only dreams I really remember well are dreams involving someone I like, love, have loved or want to love. Usually just simple dreams that emulate real life situations - walking in a park and chatting, having a laugh and feeling happy. I find those kind of 'real life' dreams affect me the strongest, as if they were an actual memory that has been implanted, resulting in a myriad of emotions flowing through.

[jajdude]

I'll try to go more with my own words this time instead of something I followed but which seemed real to me. To me, dreams give up stuff the awake mind will not. It's odd we know so little about them, yet they occupy quite a real portion of our lives. If we sleep over 25% of our lives and quite a lot of that is dream-filled, then this is worth considering. Indeed, there may be little else as worth considering, given the fluctuations of thoughts throughout the day, and the unreliableness of our own perceptions. Dreams must be worth something. What's the reason? And how come they are so image-bound? So symbolic? Did we forget words themselves are symbols? How simple this is, really. The word "chair" is not a chair, this we all know. And a word to us in English means nothing to a man who speaks no English. Why should dreams lie in a different region? They don't. They are the world of symbols, but so is our lives. Imagine that. Yeah, I regret, alas, and so forth, none of us live in the real world. It's the common things we have, not one of us is in the real world. How can we be, when we all vary? Is the real world one thing?

Arrogance tells us we actually perceive clearly. Dreams certainly tell us otherwise, don't they?

OK, so what? Well, it's fun to babble after a good bottle of wine.

[caniff]

If I don't drink for several days/one week my dreams get really vivid and bizarre. This is one reason I choose to drink often.

I prefer the sleep of the dead.