The Great Compilation of Dreams

I. Many of my dreams work backwards to reality, and it seems natural. The ground is made of water and people swim instead of walking, buildings tend to be underground, but entered on the -1th floor (one level above ground) from the trains. This is a whole world I have reoccuring dreams about.

II. Complex plots are natural to my dreams. If they were a bit easier to explain and less counterintuitive I'd use them for novels. As it is, I do my best to follow and spend the entire day after an interesting dream thinking about its plot. My dreams are more fascinating to me than the real world quite a bit of the time. As such, lately, I've been wishing I could dream more, but it's probably a good thing I don't. When I live in my dreams, I become too detached.

III. All my dreams seem to be in a series of connected universes, and occasionally I travel between dream-worlds through back-paths. There are two different networks of paths I can access, but they require mild lucidity to use. Luckily I'm usually just a bit self-aware and in control in my dreams. It doesn't occur to me that I don't have to worry about the villians, but it does occur to me that I can do things other than just follow the plot to get away from them.

IV. There have been a couple times in waking life where I felt like I was in one of the more reality-like dream universes. All those times, I've done things I couldn't do under normal circumstances. That's one of the situations in which I truly believe in magic.

V. In my dreams, I always get away unscathed. This is a reflection of my white-middle-class psychological issues. I believe in consequences only with great difficulty. That's gotten me into trouble a couple times....... wince.

VI. I'm over my first girlfriend, Green in this blog, really, yet she still appears in sexual roles in almost all of my dreams relating to sex. Almost all of my dreams relating to sex involve girls, in fact, and all the ones involving guys are more scary than pleasant. But I already knew I have issues with guys.

VII. Kiele's evil twin is a reoccuring character. I have no idea why, she's just in a huge number of my dreams, almost as many as have Green. Picture Kiele (if you know her) only two inches taller and with a really bad haircut. She and I tend to get along pretty well, but I know she's going to kill all my friends.

The pyschology of the trends in my dreams says: I'm an escapist (getting out and never dying, my tendency to live in my dreams) with a complex imagination (fancy plots), a firm belief that I am different from others or somehow special (the buildings going the wrong way, magicy stuff) and issues relating to sex (guys, Green, Kiele).

I don't tend to believe completely in the psychological explanations, though. And after this, there will be no more posts about my dreams, just items added to the lists.