Thoughts on Dreams

I agree with what many people from the class have stated about dreams and being completely fascinated by them. Whenever I sleep I have the strangest dreams, to the point when I wake up I have to ask myself, what the hell that was about. I used to wake up in the morning and write my dreams down, and dare I admit it, but I would reference my dream interpretation books which have proved too completely and utterly useless. I also agree with a couple of students comments regarding Freud, and his view on dreams to be a tad cynical, I also happen to think he was a tad perverted, I never read of any man so focused and obsessed with sex and sexual repression like him. I think his neuroses were projected into every aspect of his career. I can't say that I agree completely with the Jungian Angle either, I see to some degree how repressed thoughts and feelings can collectively lay in a "storehouse", so to speak, but to say that dreams are gateways to certain archetypes and connect individual dream symbolism and medieval alchemy, to me anyway I thought was a tad far fetched. If that was the case and maybe I am interpreting this incorrectly, then dreams should be the unifying key and things such as man vs. woman and racism, should not exist if our dreams create a unifying principal. It is hard to see purpose to my dreams, I have found neither inspiration, creativity nor discovered any deep personal feelings, not that I know of anyway, but I mean how in-depth can you get when you are dreaming that you and your grandmother are at frat party and the cops bust the party and there's grandma running right along side with you holding the keg, I see no uncovered emotion or sexual suppression in that and what creative genius could be sparked by that is beyond me. I just chalk it up to a crazy dream.

Lucid dreaming, OBE's, and NDE's were extremely fascinating. I have never experience any of these, but I would love to talk to someone personally who has ever had or known someone who has over had an experience like that.