Dreams

[tree_and_leaf]

weymss has got me thinking about dreams: specifically, he noted that he dreams in colour, which is allegedly unusual.

Which made me think about my dreams, and I came to the conclusion that my dreams aren't generally visual. Often they seem to consist solely of dialogue, and sometimes just of an emotion. For instance, I remember waking crying over the summer, and remembering nothing of the dream other than a strong conviction that a particular unpleasant event had taken place. It hadn't, although it did about a month later, which is either rather freaky, or a complete coincidence, or evidence that the subconscious mind spots patterns which allude the conscious mind (and in this case still do).

So... am I really weird? How do you dream?

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[themolesmother.livejournal.com]

I don't remember dreams that often but when I do they are epics with very complicated plots and always in colour. I wake knowing there was much more to the dream than the bits I remember.

One rather nasty side effect of the cancer treatment was reliving it all in dreams six months to a year later. Not to be recommended. I've been something of an insomniac since.

MM

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh dear, flashback dreams sound remarkably unpleasant.

I generally only remember fragments of dreams, so I suppose that for all I know I could be dreaming a War and Peace length epic every night, and I'd never know!