Dreams

There have been so many times I've been dreaming and thought I was awake, convincing myself I've already taken a shower and I'll be all ready for work but can get just a few more minutes of sleep (only to find out I haven't showered, and I'm already late). I have dreams about my husband and daughter, and when I tell him the next day and wonder why he doesn't remember what we just did the day before, I realize that in my dreams it is really like I am another person. Things come out that I don't even think about during the day. People I haven't seen for years or talked to for longer than I remember show up in my dreams depending on my mood or thoughts before my head hits the pillow. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering how we dream, what it means, why we only remember it sometimes ... I've considered starting a dream journal, but I think it would be terribly difficult and things would be much easier if I could just wake up and write down what just happened. I do agree with Freud's deterimination that dreams are part of our unconscious desires, often sexual, and usually repressed during our daily lives. A person's mind is a deep pool of ideas and thoughts so complex that not one other person will ever know everything that you do, no matter how close the relationship. It is impossible to do so, and to me, frustrating! We are born thinking, learning, and forging relationships, yet we are at some point always alone, if not in the physical sense, in the sense that our mind is ours alone. I found it very interesting to read Hughes point that recognition of an object will trigger the awareness that you are dreaming, or realizing that things are just a bit off or all too perfect may prove the same. Has anyone else realized this while they are dreaming? An odd feeling, but also pretty amazing considering we are recharging our bodies while we are sleeping, but we still never stop thinking, even at night. This might be an attribute of the human race ... but might be part of any animal's life cycle. Either way, explaining your own dreams and understanding another's can truly be interesting, frustrating, and one more facet contributing to our ever changing thoughts, lives, and therefore society.