I am in awe of the unconscious mind. I'm specifically thinking about dreams right now, but I could also be referring to unresolved emotional themes that drive me inelegantly through life. And, of course, there are the triggers that upset me, or those lovely gut feelings one gets when something feels right, or wrong.
I am inclined to daydreams and wonder. I've often thought the creative imagination connects us to the divine. Whatever that is.
Consequently, I admire the endless stream of dreams my unconscious mind (UM) provides each night. What a gifted storyteller it is, and it never runs out of ideas or new material.
I agree completely. When a small child begins to use imagination I revel in it. Fertile little minds awaken dreams and fantasies that make us both happy.
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DeleteReading this made me wish I could remember my dreams. So rich with content and imagination. Beautiful photo.
ReplyDeleteKeep a notebook and pen next to your bed. Start writing them down as soon as you wake.
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ReplyDeleteYes to dreams and the unconscious mind.
Beautiful! Could that be a sunrise? Having lived on the West Coast for most of my life, I think of seeing sunsets at the ocean. Only once did see a sunrise at the ocean and that was when I was in my early 20s, on the coast of Massachusetts, north of Boston.
No, it's a sunset on the gulf coast taken a few years back on Sanibel Island. I'll post a sunrise on the Atlantic Ocean for you on my photo site, tomorrow (Friday).
DeleteI know I dream, but do not recall, probably due to drugs.
ReplyDeleteWe would have raised some serious Hell together in our youth.
DeleteYet it also has the ability to terrify the hell out of you. It's definitely in control - no doubt about that.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem that the unconscious mind is in control of us. Interesting thought. If only we could figure out what it had in mind.
DeleteDo tell! Examples?!?!
ReplyDeleteI often don't remember them about 10 minutes after I wake up.
DeleteSometimes dreams are so strange...I dreamed Wednesday night that I put a baby in the dishwasher and insisted it was an easy way to give the baby a little shower. Honestly, how dangerous is that and where did that thought come from!
ReplyDeleteOften I forget my dreams upon awakening, it is just out of reach for my recall ability but I know it was there a second ago. Strange!
Me, too. They just disappear from consciousness. Very strange.
DeleteI have plenty of unresolved emotional themes, going back to a rather repressive childhood. Digging them out is pretty hard. As for dreams, my dreams are usually scary rather than joyful. I sometimes wake up in a panic and wake Jenny in the process. Best not to look too closely at what goes on in my peculiar mind!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear that, Nick.
DeleteYou tease, you don't give us even a sniff of what you are dreaming about! Sometimes I wake up and remember very clearly what I have dreamt. I describe it over the breakfast table and Himself says, "Well, you know what THAT means!"
ReplyDeleteLovely sunset.
I so rarely completely remember my dreams once I wake up, I just remember having dreams, if that makes sense. Sometimes I remember them vividly. In fact, if you look at my label list you'll see I have a "dream" category. I've listed a couple of dreams there. Is Himself often right about interpreting your dreams?
DeleteOnce he has described the meaning of my dream to me I think, 'Oh, of course, it's obvious!' For several years, after being trapped in my car in a crash, I had a variety of different entrapment dreams/nightmares. Very vived - they needed no interpretation!
DeleteHorrifying!
DeleteI'm a constant daydreamer. My mind is always going with something. Plus I have an ipod on shuffle in my brain so there is always a song running, too.
ReplyDeleteMy daydreaming makes it hard for me to drive a car. I've allowed my husband to drive us for so many years, I'm now programmed to begin daydreaming immediately upon closing the car door.
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