What Dreams Have you Had, and have you Talked in Your Sleep ?

by flipper 39 Replies latest jw friends

  • flipper
    flipper

    Now here is a little different subject we haven't discussed much. I read a book a while back about dreams called, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim , by Frederick Perls, a well known psychologist . His take on dreams, without getting too deep, was we dream about unfinished situations in our lives which are troubling us still . We seem to get stuck in an emotional impasse, stuck without coming to a completion in the unfinished situation, so the way our subconcsious thought releases this tension is through dreams . In our concsious waking, normal daily life we ignore the circumstance and put it in the back of our mind, but if left unhandled, it usually comes out in our dreams. Thus the old expression, you can't control what you dream. In a way, that is a good thing, because in our daily life instead of just being, and accepting all parts of ourself we tend to compartmentalize the things about ourselves we wish to accept , and discard or ignore the other things. So by talking about our dreams, we may discover hidden things which are being repressed , troubling us.

    I remember years ago not being allowed to see my then, fiance, because of her strict parents and controlling father. After finally marrying her I had a dream that I was waiting for her father, my ex-father in law, to walk in the door . When he walked through I went at him with a skillsaw, plugged into the wall. But just when I about reached his throat with the blade, the saw came unplugged, LOL!, thank god ! But I had felt oppressed in that relationship, and the stress came out in that dream ! Mrs. Flipper, when we were first dating, woke me up out of a dead sleep one night , and started yelling " Fur!", " Fur ! ". She was shaking, quivering, I wondered , " What the hell ? " After waking her up, she said in her dream she was yelling " Fire ! ", " Fire! ", because the house was on fire in her dream, and some men were at the front door trying to break in ! Really creepy . She had remembered being threatened by people years before , so she was dreaming this. She still had unfinished fear within her about the situation.

    So, my friends, what dreams have you had that were vivid in your life ? Have you talked in your sleep ? I think it might be fun to share that with one another. Especially if you don't have someone to share it with in life, perhaps we can all help you to see what you are dreaming about. But, just for the fun of it, it would be funny to see what we have dreamed about or talked about in our sleep ! So let me have it ! Share your dreams and we will have fun checking them out ! Look forward to hearing from you ! Hope you are all well ! Don't be shy now, just having fun here ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper

  • coolhandluke
    coolhandluke
    was we dream about unfinished situations in our lives which are troubling us still . We seem to get stuck in an emotional impasse, stuck without coming to a completion in the unfinished situation, so the way our subconcsious thought releases this tension is through dreams .

    I have had some exposure to Gestalt theory at the Esalen institute in Big Sur California and agree with a lot of it.

    Lately I've been having dreams where I have these rational and reasoned conversations with my ex. We talk through things and while there is no reconcilliation and I realize that I'm not talking to her because she is so rational and caring and honest its helped me in some ways. In others I wake depressed because of the depth of imagination it takes to imagine her rational, honest and kind. I realize that I am stuck in my situation until I can move. I realize so much that is out of my control. Nightmares in a way.

  • flipper
    flipper

    COOLHAND LUKE- I understand what you are going through. I have had dreams like that too, where it seemed so real, like I was solving a problem , but then wake up and be just as frustrated , because of it only being a dream. So I felt like I accomplished nothing because it was in my subconcsious. However ,just dreaming it has helped, because then when I'm awake , at times I will act on what I dreamed about in regards to communicating with someone and solving problems . So as you say, it is our subconcsious telling us to handle the unresolved situation

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I think that's part of the story, but not all of it. When I have had recurring themes in dreams night-after-night (and usually these dreams are among the most vivid and detailed), it almost always concerns an issue that I'm expending a lot of energy confronting consciously. But in most cases, my dreams freely associate random stuff from my day with each other

    One time I did talk in my sleep....it was really funny, I was sharing a room with two other people and while we both were sleeping, I was having a gibberish conversation with one of them in our sleep. We both were woken up when the other girl in the room was laughing.

  • flipper
    flipper

    LEOLAIA- Very funny stuff ! It is weird at times how we dream about various dis jointed things we are going through in our everyday life. And then trying to peace together the jigsaw puzzle of what it means . Jibberish is funny in talking in your sleep ! I'm sure your friend was having a blast watching you and your girlfriend jibber to each other ! LOL ! I had an ex wife years ago who started moaning in her sleep, you know like a ghost sounds, woooh, woooh, I woke up out of a dead sleep and woke her up saying, " You are scaring the hell out of me ! What were you dreaming about ? " She said, " I dreamed I was being stabbed all over with knives ! " I'm like Jeez ! Found out later this particular woman was a methamphetamine addict! Go figure, huh? Peace out, Mr. Flipper

  • Burger Time
    Burger Time

    Oh my I was actually going to make a post about this exact thing but forgot. Last night I had a strange dream where I was in a huge house. It was haunted and in one of the rooms a boy was sleeping in whenever he turned out the lights all over the walls in glowing blue and green was "Jehovah is Gog of Magog". He was scared and I was trying to convince him that this was positive and he should just go to sleep. The house was definitely creepy. Then I went outside and was able to speak to the "keeper" of the house. She was a nice older women who was very pleasant and spoke in a very "matter of fact" manor. I asked her about one particular room in the house which was very active with spirits and she said, "oh those are just the old magicians, I was written a ticket (at work we have online tickets for work orders) for them". I then found it odd someone gives her work orders. I then told her I would help with the upkeep of the house and she vanished. It was a very strange dream and I woke up a bit scared.

    I assume this was jut a hodgepodge of sub-conscious things all thrown together. I don't have dreams like this often.

  • RollerDave
    RollerDave

    I do my best not to dream if at all possible, vivid dreams don't take me anyplace I want to go.

    Lurid scarlet on snow white, the obscene disfigurement of youth, parts of what should be whole garishly displayed like a charnel garden.

    I have my good days and my bad days, but dreaming does not serve me well thus, this poem:

    ====
    Dreams

    dreams are screams in a sleeping head
    with dreams like these you'd be better off dead
    raucous echos fill my skull at night
    the stillborn children of a nameless fright
    the razor's edge between sane and not
    the growing doubt that burns white hot
    i feed the fire peices of my tattered soul
    is it any wonder that i'm not whole?
    ====

    I guess I'm a mixed bag.

    RD

  • Burger Time
    Burger Time

    I had the scariest dream of my life about 6 years ago. I was in the Kingdom Hall with a cleaning group. I remember my brother was using a wooden vacuum. I went to the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror. I was trying to see the reflection of myself in my pupil in the mirror. Well all of the sudden I heard a demonic style laugh and the walls did a trippy melty thing. The room was kind of shifting up and down and I was just staring at myself. My eyes were red and I was freaking out BAD because I couldn't move I was just stuck staring at myself with the room going crazy. I realized it was a dream and wanted OUT, but couldn't escape. I thought about how I could wake myself up. I tried thinking really hard and screaming hoping someone at home would hear and wake me up. That didn't work so I just concentrated really really hard on waking up. I woke up with my eye open facing the bed like I had been rubbing my eyelid on the sheet. I was also crying and had tears streaming down my face. It was the scariest dream I ever had in my life. By that time I was fading and it made me want to fade even more. It was the scariest dream ever and I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • flipper
    flipper

    BURGER TIME and ROLLER DAVE- Wow! dudes! thanks for sharing ! Sorry you guys have had such weird , disturbing dreams. But dreams are that way sometimes. It seems as if they make no logical sense, just scare the hell out of us ! I have had those too occasionally. Peace out, have a drink on me and relax man ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper

  • serendipity
    serendipity

    I don't tend to remember dreams, except for the more disturbing ones. I've had recurring dreams involving tornadoes and tidal waves for many years and it's usually during very stressful times. But I did have the tidal wave dream one night while we were staying ocean side in California a few months back. Since I was on vacation and not particularly stressed about life, it just reflected my fear of being in earthquake country.

    Here are a couple links to other dreams I've posted about:
    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/107890/1.ashx
    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/109000/1.ashx

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