Thoughts on Dreams

stramgine: i had this weird dream once
stramgine: i must have been way stressed out
stramgine: because i was clenching my jaw the whole night
stramgine: in my dream i killed someone!
stramgine: just because i could
stramgine: and then i woke up at 4 in the morning
stramgine: i felt SO guilty
stramgine: weirdest dream ever

rammie18: at least you felt guilty

stramgine: yeah but i still killed the person
stramgine: i didn't think about what i had done until after i did it
stramgine: and why i was stressed i have no idea
stramgine: it was winter break

rammie18: i find that my dreams have no relation to anything that's actually going on or how i'm feeling

stramgine: that's interesting
stramgine: i would expect that some subconscious emotions would seep through

rammie18: occasionally
rammie18: but mostly no
rammie18: and actually i don't think emotions ever really do
rammie18: images yes
rammie18: sometimes i'll see something and be like oh that's where that came from!

stramgine: haha

rammie18: and sometimes certain people will show up if i've been thinking about them a lot
rammie18: and not matthew thiessen

stramgine: aw
stramgine: poor megan
stramgine: but really then how do we explain my murder dream
stramgine: i did not watch anything violent

rammie18: i don't think you can explain dreams

stramgine: i had nothing to worry about
stramgine: i wasn't angry
stramgine: so weird

rammie18: they are just some random amalgamation of images in our subconscious to which we assign an arbitrary storyline so as to make sense of them
rammie18: that's my opinion

stramgine: hm i don't know about that
stramgine: i mean there's got to be something to your emotional state and health
stramgine: i usually get dreams when i'm sick, depressed, stressed

rammie18: you always have dreams

stramgine: well the really weird ones

rammie18: you only remember them at those times

stramgine: hm
stramgine: that's interesting

rammie18: probably because you aren't in a deep sleep because of your stress and/or comfort level

stramgine: you know how consciously when people experience a life-changing event
stramgine: they are more apt to remember stuff from that day
stramgine: ?
stramgine: maybe that works subconsciously
stramgine: or better question
stramgine: when we dream is our subconscious putting out the images and the conscious is reading them?
stramgine: or is the subconscious sorting them and reading them and sometimes the conscious gets a glimpse?