In the previous post we discussed how we typically believe the highly illogical world of dream logic. Within a dream we can engage ourselves in surroundings and activities that are contrary to things we believe in waking life. This will often cause us to be in a state of confusion within the dream. Though we may accept what is happening we can feel as though we are in a mental fog riddled with doubt, apprehension, and forgetfulness.
Much of the time a dream can leave us in a state of confusion upon wakening. The transition from the illogical world of dreams into the familiar waking world is jarring at times as we leave the world where we are controlled by a subconscious mind process and reenter the world where we have at least some semblance of control over what is going on around us and the world adheres to a certain sense of natural law as well as our own expectations of how things should turn out.
Do you find your dreams to be often confusing? Are you often disoriented upon waking up? Why do you think dream logic is typically so antithetical to the logic in waking life?
I don't find the transition from dream to reality confusing. I take the creative images of my dream and apply them to my writing so I'm able to almost live in my dreamworld throughout the day. Very satisfying.
ReplyDeleteYes, I've done that as well, Mary. I'm mainly thinking of that hazy rubbing your eyes feeling on awakening that many of us experience. I've had days where my dream stayed in focus with me and I was able to use it to its fullest advantage.
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I'm always very disoriented from dreams if I take an afternoon nap. I avoid napping because of that.
ReplyDeleteNap awakenings can be very confusing to me as well, JoJo. No way I'm going to avoid my naps though because I almost always need the recharge.
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My dreams make sense while I am in them. And usually I don't feel confused when I wake. I seem to adjust to the switch fairly easily. Sometimes I am glad the dream is over. Sometimes I wish I could recapture it. Once in a blue moon, if I can go right back to sleep, I can re-enter the same dream.
ReplyDeleteI've actually been able to harness my dreams to get through stubborn issues in my storylines. I fall asleap while 'acting out' the story in my mind and often find myself dreaming about the rest of the story while I'm sleeping. If it makes sense than it often finds its way into my writing.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with this is I end up waking up feeling like I've not really slept at all.
My dreams are very vivid and detailed. As a result, I wake up agitated! I'm mentally still in the dream and have unresolved conflicts waiting back there! Sometimes, I dream about people I hardly know; they'll be in what seems to be a loooong dream...then I feel like I know them.
ReplyDeleteYep...I'm mental.
My dreams when I look at them in the light of day are often confused and confusing, sometimes clear in their meaning. I reckon it's useful not to apply our usual logical and linear way in reflecting on the dream because it's language is not our usual one.
ReplyDeleteThanks for these essential points Arlee!