[October 15, 2008]
Whoever started the idea that nightmares were a bad thing? They give you a dose of hell while you're resting in suspended animation and occasionally get you screaming. Where do nightmares come from? They're supposedly a reflection of the subconscious mind at work trying to sift and sort through memories of events that took place during the day. They may even be residual thoughts of an idle mind.
It seems so far that nightmares are a necessary evil required for regular neural processes, but is there any other purpose to them besides this? Couldn't a nightmare be seen as a jolt of adrenaline when your life has gone flat? A frying pan wacking across your face when you have given up thinking that all hope is lost? A nightmare by most people's definition is a dream of bad events that may scare or anger. It is not that hard to assume, therefore, that a nightmare could possibly place you into a scenario far worse than could be experienced in real life. The difficulty level of this game is far higher than the game of real life. At least this is the case quite often. I think that nightmares may be your subconscious's way to beat your conscious with a billy club. "Wake the hell up! You're fuckin' everything up right now." The degree of fucked-upness of one's life can be directly correlated to the frequency of these nightmares; maybe of living on the street eating trash or having serious backlash and shunning from the Family or anything else imaginable.
Of course, a freak extreme nightmare can emerge at random times, and this might be perfectly normal. But when these nightmares take place on a daily basis, and they sometimes take place during daydreams in class, well, the subconscious is likely in red alert mode. Red alert for what? Self-preservation? Maybe. How much will the boat of consciousness and the real sink before the subconscious responds with the ultimate jolt? Perhaps it is not just one big shock but several progressive stages...like the stages of flood gate closure just before a major inundation.
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Strangely, I very rarely have nightmares. In fact, I mostly don't remember my dreams. This seems to have gotten stronger as I have grown older. What's this to mean?
I do know people who remember every dream vividly, though. I know someone who seems to be able to dream at will, even within the window of 5 minute naps. :D
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