Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Suite Dreams Are Made Of These



I seldom remember my dreams. Maybe that's because sleep is just a brief respite from consciousness for me. I lay down and black out, then wake up and fight the day's battles all over again.

I remember my bad dreams, though. I had a couple in Bangkok.

I dreamt I lent my editor my little convertible for a spin, and he promptly crashed it into the rear of another just like it. Only it was colored blue. The same royal blue color of that other 2-door number I was thinking of buying last year. Anyway, in the dream, I remember thinking "Well, isn't that nice" while facepalming myself. I'd just gotten my sedan - which IRL had suffered a fate similar to what I had in the dream - out of the casa last December, and now it's the little car's turn. Why the hell not?

Then I woke up.

The next night's dream was a little more disturbing. I dreamt that my brother had died. But it was very casual - just one of those things I made a mental note of while I was engrossed with work. And then in the dream, I finally got around to asking my mom when the burial would be. Then I realized I had already missed it because I was working.

And then I sobbed and sobbed in the dream.

I haven't sobbed in real life for a long time.

Strange dreams. I wonder if they mean anything.

13 comments:

  1. These days, I dream a lot. Those that I remember though, like you, are the awful ones.

    Someone told me that dreams - their images, the things in them - are not really symbols, do not contain a one-to-one correspondence with meaning. The whole dream, he said, is a reflection of our most current emotional state.

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  2. @ Manech : I agree with you regarding "symbols" in dreams. Images and objects signify different things to different people, so I don't subscribe to the standard "dream symbols & meanings" thing.

    It's very true about dreams reflecting our emotional states. Understandably, I have tortured dreams when I am anxious, but I haven't had a happy dream for a good while now.

    Ay - there's the rub, indeed.

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  3. they're usually symbols your rational mind can't decipher. try reading the whole dream as metaphors.

    they are always subjective anyway.

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  4. no idea how to interpret dreams. what i do know is i miss staying in a hotel suite. sigh.

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  5. dreams are products of things that you really want.
    wait, what did freud say about dreams?

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  6. i think having a dream is an indication of enough sleep.

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  7. @ Herbs : When i was a kid, I used to think dreams were little movies that entertained me as I slept.

    I guess the DreamFlix queue changes when one grows older.

    @ engel : Check-in tayo? :P

    @ paci : "Things you really want." Well, in that case, I really want that royal blue MR-S. But I don't want anyone to die. Well, maybe not anyone *thinks of people he would like to have a Grand Eyeball with God*

    @ Ming : LOL! Good one, you sly kitty.

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  8. I think dreams are subconscious thought manifesting on your sleep.. Naah.. what the hell.. i sleep like a log because of my inhaler.. ;)

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  9. may nightmares din ako dati, i woke up sobbing too

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  10. our brains still function even though we sleep. we think of a lot of things. the subconscious part is largely greater than the conscious part of our mind.

    but then again, i believe that we have the ability to predetermine things through our dreams.

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  11. dreams are nothing,i think haha i dont take them seriously...

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  12. They don't probably mean anything serious, just your subconscious messing with you...

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  13. i think you work too hard. maybe it's time for rudeboy to play. you know what they say... all work and no play makes the keep off the grass. haha

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