Monday, October 29, 2007

Analyzing my Dreams

The website tells what types of dreams people get. It claims that people get dreams from the physical world and spiritual world. I am not going to disagree with them saying from the spiritual world because of my coworker dreaming of the right lottery numbers. Then dreams from the physical world are broken down into three categories. The first one is random wacky dreams that certain foods can inhance. My dad always says that onions make him dream. The second one is health related, where your subconcious tells you whats wrong with your body. I guess this is what I got when I dream that my coughing was being caused by my ears. The final one is your mind tries to straighten out social situations.

The following site is related to the site above and tells the meaning of specific things in dreams:

After looking through the list I am going to tell which ones that I have dreamt about during this project.
alien [dream 11]: do not know how to handle something (I do not think this one applies since the alien was hardly a focus in the dream)
alligator [6]: I think the suggestion that applies based on the way the dream went is that I am prepared to handle any threats.
basement [11]: my percieved faults (when I was in the basement I was trying to hide my dinosaurs, too bad the site does not tell about dinosaurs)
bite [6]: no longer have emoti0ns about something stressful. Since it was an alligator biting me this might change the interpretation of that
car [2,3]: not in control of oneself or situation (This is interesting since dreaming about the car reminded me of dreaming about losing my teeth when I was little which means the same thing)
chase [11]: something unresolved plaguing me. (I do not know how to make this fit with the alien)
doctor [5]: indicated something about health (my case was the ears)
naked [9]: the covers probably came off when I was sleeping

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

No insightful dreams lately

I have not had any insightful dreams lately. However, since the weather has gotten colder, I had a chance to test my dream about covering my ears to prevent coughing, and it works. I still have not been dreaming a lot. I am not under that much stress, but I have had bad bedtimes. I noticed that all of my latest dreams came on days when I could sleep in.

Dream 10
I dreamt that I was at my summer job, which is a mover. A driver for our company dropped me off at a neighborhood but not at any specific house. I left my shoes in the truck. Then other people from my work showed up and I followed them to the house, but I could not work because I did not have any shoes. Then they left to get equipment and came back with the driver who had my shoes. We were all working for a driver who did not work for our company. I did not even go inside the house that we were working on. I did go on the roof to get a boat that was up their.
I do not think this dream had any special meaning, but it reminded me of some things about dreams that are related to my work. First, occasionally I would have to work late into the night. The nights that this happened, I would dream all night that I was working. These were very stressful dreams, and I would wake up constantly during them.
The other thing that is related to my work is a dream that this old guy at my work shared with me, which is one of the reasons why I chose to do a blog on dreams. In his dream he kept seeing these same numbers over and over again. He wrote them down when he woke up. He bought a lottery ticket for the only time in his life and won $375. If he dreamt of two more numbers he would have been filthy rich. I am hoping that focusing on my dreams I can tap into that power. I want to be able to dream all the numbers.

Dream 11
This dream I was in my computer class and their was a buffet eveywhere and I kept eating food. Then this kid kept putting marijuana on my burger and I kept brushing off so the teacher would not see. Later in that dream I was an alien chasing this brother and sister. They were in a house and kept running through this maze of rooms. So I used something like a giant snake with an eye for a head to chase after them. When the eye spotted them I swithed to being the boy and started running away from the eye. Then I forgot about the alien and went into my basement that resembled the basement I had in 3rd and 4th grade. Then these people were coming down stairs and I had to hide my pet dinosaurs.

Dream 12
I was going to a wrestling practice for the first time of the year. I was beating everybody at first then I was getting beat because I was out of shape. Then when we did the running I almost died.
I had this dream because I am about to swicth over from football into wrestling. Everytime I did this I have been really out of shape.

Dream 13
I was playing hacky sac in my dorm hall with some people at the other end of the hall. Only instead of using a hacky sac we were using my soap.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Still under Stress

I am still in stress mode and I am still not having very many clear dreams. In the summer I would dream just about every night, now they are just not coming very often.

Dream 8
I turned in my computer program code for my computer class. Then I dreamed that the professor was going over my code on the board with the class and was trying to trace it, which means go through and figure out what it does. He got to one part that he thought was doing the wrong thing and I explained what was going on. I could really see my code clearly in this dream, which is suprising considering how complicated code is. It is probably because I stare at the code for a long time. This dream destroyed my notion that you can not read in dreams. This idea is from when I was young. One episode of Batman that I watched the villian had Batman hooked to a machine that made him dream. Batman realized that he was in a dream because he opened a book and could not read it. The reason was sopposedly that that part of the brain that causes dreams is separate from the part of the brain that reads. Now I know this is a false notion.

Dream 9
In this dream I helped someone with a dance performance by dancing with them. I was also naked when I was dancing. Usually when I am for some reason naked in my dreams I get nervous and uncomfortable, but this time I did not care and figured it was for the performance.

One interesting thing that happened was I was up late working on a computer program (different one than the one I dreamt about). I was not getting anywhere and was stuck on what to do. The next morning I woke up with a lot of energy a lot earlier than I normally do and slowly realized what I had to do. I do not remember dreaming about this though. Perhaps I figured out the path I needed to take in a dream or some other type of sleep.