From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 07:02:51 MST
"Ross A. Finlayson" <raf@tiki-lounge.com> writes:
> Does anyone have dreams remembered where they are not themselves? In all
> dreams that I recall, I am myself. If we have dreams where we are someone
> else, are they separated?
I have had plenty of dreams where I was not myself. I have been
everything from disembodied observers over interstellar economies to a
Axiomatically Invincible Hero to the god Odin.
(The Axiomatically Invincible Hero might need an explanation. In one
dream I encountered a box containing something awful breaking out,
just like the start of Jurassic Park. But this beast was an Axiomatic
Beast, which meant that it would - by definition - devour any victim
it pursued. I only had moments to prepare - so I redefined myself as
axiomatically impossible to defeat. Since the Beast couldn't eat me
without causing a paradox, it escaped into other parts of my dream...)
> Recent dream tokens are aborigine, red truck. Favorites include mountain
> and flight. Levitation is interesting.
>
> Makes me think of pseudo-science. Dream interpretation and all that.
While a lot of dream interpretation is junk, dreams are after all
information about our minds. I would say that our dream "landscapes"
say a bit about what kind of people we are, what is going on and what
worldviews we inhabit.
Yes... my internal world seems to be quite unusual :-)
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