I felt like making this deep and interesting post earlier today. I just hope I word it right deep breath here i go~
I think with me they help me make sense of my life. I think i’d go crazy by now if not for dreams. Like, they help me ‘handle’ the idea of ‘not having certain crushes’ in the past better (like korrina, who started this year, for one). I think they also help me think in black and white a bit less, which is A MAJOR plus, as black and white thinking is a serious issue with me that I think may finally be getting better luckily.
Overall, i duno where i’d be now if not for my awesome dream recall skills i’ve had nearly all my life. Wondering how others will respond to this!
Much like moogle I tend to find things in dreams that represent things in waking life. However, usually seeing these help me see these things in a new way. Lately I’ve had a few dreams which were pretty tough to write out fully in my DJ because of what they meant to me in relation to waking life.
I’ve talked to a number of people about dream analysis, so a lot of how I experience this is a matter of looking back after the fact and seeing what everything represented. But in the sense that there can be a sense of catharsis in the dream itself, I’ve experienced that. I had a very long, involved dream just this past year that I took several months to fully analyze, but one part that I understood almost immediately was that there was one scene in the dream that was my mind’s way of processing some residual feelings about an ex of mine. I remember feeling better than I’d felt in months the day after I had that dream.
