Wow, your dreams are filled with plenty of powerful stuff.
I don't have any of these impending doom nightmares, like you have. My 'bad dreams' are mostly of unexpectedly and unprepared being confronted with a situation for which I am not prepared (e.g. taking an exam), and I am taken by surprise with little or no reaction from my part.
The last time I had a ground-shaking dream is already some 6-7 years ago. It was during the night that our Rottweiler dog died. We knew that she was old and was suffering, but that night I had an incredibly vivid dream of a swarm of black birds coming down on our house. I was not afraid but I knew instantly that it was for our dog who had just died. And indeed when going down that morning Gigi had passed away.
Hi Peter, good to see you popping up in the comments again. I wish my bad dreams only involved surprise exams! That dream about your late dog is eerie. You've almost convinced me to finally pen an article on the supernatural - for which Thailand is rife with stories, superstitions, and the firsthand inexplicable experiences of this writer.
Our mind is very powerful. It has power over everything. I think that dreaming is the mind reorganising experiences in the mental filing cabinet for future use in recognising danger and deceit. The least important experience is filed furthest back almost impossible to retrieve.
I often regret that I can rarely remember my dreams, but then if they were anything like yours I'd never sleep again.
The dreams I do remember are always stupid and meaningless. Do I dream of the two heroes of my novels, who look like Tom Ellis and Andrew Cooper, do cool heroic crap, and are on my waking mind to the exclusion of all else? Hell, no. It's all "I'm in the grocery store to buy eggplants but there's an armadillo running across the produce." Seriously, brain: WTF. On the plus side, I no longer dream that I'm in college and have a final exam for a class I forgot to attend all semester.
Hi Nicolas,
Wow, your dreams are filled with plenty of powerful stuff.
I don't have any of these impending doom nightmares, like you have. My 'bad dreams' are mostly of unexpectedly and unprepared being confronted with a situation for which I am not prepared (e.g. taking an exam), and I am taken by surprise with little or no reaction from my part.
The last time I had a ground-shaking dream is already some 6-7 years ago. It was during the night that our Rottweiler dog died. We knew that she was old and was suffering, but that night I had an incredibly vivid dream of a swarm of black birds coming down on our house. I was not afraid but I knew instantly that it was for our dog who had just died. And indeed when going down that morning Gigi had passed away.
Hi Peter, good to see you popping up in the comments again. I wish my bad dreams only involved surprise exams! That dream about your late dog is eerie. You've almost convinced me to finally pen an article on the supernatural - for which Thailand is rife with stories, superstitions, and the firsthand inexplicable experiences of this writer.
Our mind is very powerful. It has power over everything. I think that dreaming is the mind reorganising experiences in the mental filing cabinet for future use in recognising danger and deceit. The least important experience is filed furthest back almost impossible to retrieve.
I often regret that I can rarely remember my dreams, but then if they were anything like yours I'd never sleep again.
The dreams I do remember are always stupid and meaningless. Do I dream of the two heroes of my novels, who look like Tom Ellis and Andrew Cooper, do cool heroic crap, and are on my waking mind to the exclusion of all else? Hell, no. It's all "I'm in the grocery store to buy eggplants but there's an armadillo running across the produce." Seriously, brain: WTF. On the plus side, I no longer dream that I'm in college and have a final exam for a class I forgot to attend all semester.