At all. They're just jumbled up scenes of video games, real life places, weird scenarios, people I've never seen before or are close to, and I never have any idea that I'm dreaming. Until I wake up, forgetting most of it, thinking "What the hell?" It sucks, because I've been trying a lot of methods of, I guess, finding myself lately, and one thing I really wanted to try was interpreting my dreams. But it doesn't seem like there's anything to interpret. Everything's familiar and what isn't just... doesn't make sense. Like why a TV would also be an elevator. Please, don't ask. I've tried mentally chanting to myself what I'd like to dream until I eventually fall asleep. Never worked. Should I change my diet or something, or is there an easier way? Or am I just over-thinking it.
I hear ya. Last night I was in some old town in Eurip, I think (but I live in the states). I was eyeballing a big bag of wallnuts and started feeling hungry (I only like cashews btw). Some guy was showing us some health thing that involved smacking yourself with your own finger, or something like that. Then it started to rain, so everyone was going inside this big room. I was smoking so I went on past the door and was looking around the place. I turned a corner and saw this really cool old English looking car parked there. Then I woke up all of a sudden. Yep, good times. lol
If you want to find out what your subconscious is trying to tell you by analyzing your dreams, don't fixate on every tiny little detail. Focus on the general aura of the dream, the feeling. The time when details become important is when they occur frequently.
I've never had a dream more than once, but the mood I usually get from them is sort of... well, I'm having a hard time thinking of a word for it right now, but it's definitely negative. Kinda, detached nostalgia, eeriness, and the only thing I seem to always think during a dream is that I can't sleep. I know, in the dream, I can't sleep. When I actually say the words in my head though, that's usually when the dream loops again and I realize I'm gonna be stuck here for...ever. o.o But it never occurs to me that I'm dreaming. I just think I'm fucked. Sounds a lot to me like I may be mentally disturbed [I'm usually in a bad mood when I'm awake, anyway] and I have really shitty memory and am incredibly gullible.
yeah those dream books are bullshit anyways if you were planning on using one of those to interpret. Random objects that show up in your dreams aren't always going to have the same meaning. You should always go off the feeling the dream leaves you; you'll find out more about yourself by paying attention to feelings than to assign symbolic meaning to random objects that show up in your dream.
its up to you, the kind of sense you want to make or not make. both universes, the one we're awaike in, and the one we deam in, and they are two very seperate, albeit at times closely parallel, universes, are much unimaginably more diverse then most people try to tell each other and themselves. the dream universe is a different universe then the physical awake one, in the very sense of what defines a universe and that is in the way basic fundimental things like the laws of physics work. in the dream universe it is harder to not teleport to wherever your mind wanders, then it is to walk or otherwise transport yourself there in this one. that's why it seems "jumbled up". it's a different geography that works a different way. when you get used to it, it can be just as easy to find your way around as it is here. it just isn't here. it is by trying to think of it in terms of here, trying to force this world geography on it, that's where the confusion comes from. just forget trying to do that and realize its just a very different kind of place. but it IS a place in the sense that it has ITS OWN logic and navigable geography. also yes of course, it is resistent to trying to force anything. mostly that's another part of it just don't work that way. trying to turn to a particular page of the book, to land at a particular familiar intersection, it just don't work that way. all that does is keep us awake. no, the trick is to get rid of trying to impose preconceptions. you can't force it. but when you let go of trying to, you can kind of, its like dropping hints about preferences. they'll be freely and unpredictably interpreted, but that's the closest thing to steering them, and sometimes it can get very close. remember too. dreams aren't all just one thing, or for just one reason. some are to learn from, some are to be healed by, some are to just enjoy the trip. and then of course, there are some, which actually let you do things in them and choose some of them.
