Dreams

I started a new blog a few days ago but I haven’t completed it yet for a variety of reasons – some good, some not so good. But the words I put in that blog are unlikely to change much with the passage of time because they are memories and are true. But I’ve decided to write a post, which although it is a memory, it is one(2) of the unconscious mind. I am writing about them now because in a few days they will be forgotten.

In your waking hours the brain is very busy – it has to process the things it sees, hears, smells, touches etc. In addition to autonomous things like breathing and blood pumping. It still needs to keep a check on those things to make sure that, as far as it knows, the lungs and heart etc. are working properly. When we are asleep, the brain is allowed to slow down a little. It still needs to keep a check on the autonomous functions but there are no sights to see with sounds and smells less sensitive and any movements you make are likely to be felt more by your partner than yourself.

Which reminds me – on our 1st wedding night, we slept on a waterbed – not an experience I want to repeat, you move and your partner gets seasick. And to get out of bed, I spin my legs over the side of the bed, then push myself forward a little, so my legs are touching the floor and I can then stand up. But in the waterbed, I was stuck with legs dangling over the side of the bed until I realised that I had to make a wave in the mattress to push me onto the wooden side of the bed that encased the mattress. But I digress …..

I was talking about a couple of dreams, or rather at the moment, the things that happen in the body leading to dreaming. So your brain is, not taking a break, but relaxing, during your sleeping hours and it allows your unconscious to run riot. It can imagine all sorts of things that the brain wouldn’t follow up with when it was fully active. Running out of a house is probably not a good idea unless it’s on fire, or falling down ….. I’ve read somewhere that the brain doesn’t forget anything, it is just mis-filed. I want cereals for breakfast, I know where that thought is that is what I had yesterday, or I want a cooked breakfast, had to dig a little deeper but I had one last week. But kippers, I’ve never had them but I saw them being cooked once on TV. Have a grapefruit – ouch !! Now I remember why I stopped eating them, they need to be laced with sugar. A few random thoughts on breakfast, I must be hungry. The unconscious can also pick up random thoughts and try to string them together. Which is where my dreams come in.

Although I know I have been dreaming, I can’t remember any from th last couple of days. I think this is because although I had difficulty in getting to sleep, the sleep I got was uninterrupted. But 4 days ago I had a dream creating by my unconscious making a short story about just a couple of facts. Previous blogs have mentioned Nana’s house, although at the timeframe in the dream it was my Uncle’s house. And the Cardschool friend who a short time ago became my friend on Facebook. Those are the only 2 facts but in the dream …..

Steve with his son (who may or may not exist) had been invited to join us at Nana’s house for Sunday Lunch – Why Nana’s – that was because he was a work colleague of my Uncle, again probably not correct, although they may have both worked for the same company. The 2 main companies in Derby were railway engineering and Rolls-Royce. Also in this dream a shop from the town centre mysteriously appeared next door They are unlikely to get a shop in the street, it is a dead end, although there are shops on the main road that the street comes off.

The 2nd dream (3 days ago) came from 1 fact that the subconscious had access to – I am looking for new friends – I don’t have many friends, they tend to disappear when I change job or move house. There shouldn’t be as much chance of that happening with online friends. The problem with online is that it can be difficult to distinguish between True and False. I have met people before that I hadn’t seen prior to the meet but I had spoken to them. Seeing someone makes the connection feel more real but then location becomes a potential problem. Online takes things from being local to international. The next town is a bus ride away, the next country is a train ride away and the next continent is a flight away. I would like to find someone special, i don’t expect to find that person. I am finding friends – seeing someone makes that person more real, but we will need to be in the same room before I can call that one special. 

The dream was I had seen a girl (I say seen but I couldn’t describe any of the people concerned) talking to a man, their children playing with each other nearby. Then one day she walked past looking sad, so I followed her to the end of the road, where she was getting some money-off coupons from a man who always seemed to have a variety of them available. Then I started talking to her, mentioning that I had seen her with her friend and children. She said he wasn’t really his friend – she was a friend of his wife. His wife had a full-time job and he had become a house-husband since leaving the army due to injury.

Now I’ve finished, I’m not quite sure why I wrote that post. Ah well, back to reality tomorrow.