I was talking about a song called "The Sleep of No Dreaming", which is a song by a band called Porcupine Tree. It got me thinking, I normally sleep like the dead, and it is a phrase I have heard many people use when describing how they slept. Especially when it comes to a night in which they have not had any dreams. Which makes sense, because if you are dead how can you have dreams? Unless you believe that death is just a progression and your thinking self/soul progresses onto the next plain. Which in a certain light could be viewed as the dreams of the dead. If you believe in that.
Back to what I guess is my point. So if you do not dream and that is sleeping like the dead, does that mean when you dream that you are sleeping like the living? Or does it tie into the dreaming of the dead? I hold the belief that dreams are productions of your sub conscious to help you decipher things, and sometimes in far between instances it is a non normal source helping you out in a manner that is easier to adapt to. So I don't know where I am heading with this but I feel it is an interesting idea.
I mean I have been told that you dream every night but most times do not remember it. So what triggers the remembrance of certain dreams. Why do some remember more of their dreams then others? Is it a reflex, or what is it. I mean in personal experience if I do dream every night I hardly ever remember it. However when I do remember my dreams they are usually complex and make no sense and in retrospect is really creepy on more then a few levels.
There is something in the back of my mind that is trying to present itself which is why I keep on rambling on this poor subject. I feel that I am not adequately explaining what I am thinking.
When you have no dreams (which is what I think happens most times), or do not remember them. It is like sleeping like the dead, uninterrupted. So when you are dreaming that means you are sleeping like the living. Which would make sense but at the same time it doesn't. How do you sleep like the living? It does not sit well, it is probably the terminology but something there is not sitting right. I guess if you are sleeping like the living it is because in most dreams it starts off as a mundane activity before it progresses into anything else. Your dreams take on a life of their own inside of your head. Even after waking they can haunt you. I had a dream once, that left me shaken for a week afterwards and on the day I had it I could not go to sleep for 6 hours after I woke up from it. *I had woken up at 2 or 3 in the morning after going to sleep at 11*
Further why is it that when you dream that it has its own time sequence that at the time has its own smooth flow but is completely disjointed from actuality. I mean I guess it could be chalked to the imagination of the human mind but that is far too simplistic. The human mind is a vastly stronger tool then it is led to believe. Aside from its encouraged atrophy by devices like the calculator. I refuse to believe that the power of dreams lies in the singular fact that it is just the mind excercising its creativity. Half of the time when you dream *to me anyways* it is almost like you have immersed yourself into a story that turns into real life and you are incapable of telling the difference. I mean think of that, when you dream 90% of the time you are inable to tell that you are dreaming unless it is extremely wacky or you wake up. How real the terror feels, how real the memories feel. I have had dreams that have left impressions on my mind that have felt like rooted fact. How odd. I am going to stop now, but it is a lot to think about.
 rainbow_in_the_dark · Fri Aug 03, 2007 @ 08:57am · 1 Comments |
