Hopefully, it's only that. Because I would too, like to remember dream conversations better. |
|
The past couple nights have been interesting nights of dreaming since they have involved various kinds of information. But this information is lost upon waking up and I can either remember the feeling that it happened, or the general subject of discussion. Last night I was dreaming about visiting a research foundation having to do with either chemistry or genetics, and the night before I was hearing lots of extended lectures on subjects and information I can't remember. Aside from not being lucid, I've noticed it being difficult to bring back anything related to speech back to waking life. Both sets of information were spoken. Granted, its near impossible to bring text back from dreams, but in my case it is mostly gibberish anyway. The more extended conversations, discussions, and verbally-relayed information either tends to disappear right after waking or is clear for only a few minutes before it is lost. I just really wish I remembered those lectures and what that research place was about, since I remember what I said but not what the researchers said. |
|
Last edited by Neo Neo; 01-25-2015 at 06:12 PM.
Hopefully, it's only that. Because I would too, like to remember dream conversations better. |
|
I sort of know the answer. I think.. I just forgot... |
|
Well.. I try waking up a few times in the morning, writing down whatever voice was last in my head, and then drifting back into that semi-dream state, wake up, repeat. Sometimes I can slip back into the dream, or at the least, there's this thought that comes to me about the dream I had. |
|
I'm sort of the same way. Text and exact wording of conversations can be tough to recall from both non-LDs and LDs—visuals, general thoughts, and things I do are much easier. Sometimes I do manage to remember the exact wording of a sentence or a part of a sentence, and I believe this is something that can improve with time and practice, especially for LDs. I sometimes find that a word is used with an unconventional meaning, or there is a completely new, invented word, or the sentence may be cryptic by itself, but in many cases I'll “automatically” understand the underlying meaning during the dream. |
|
I have a hard time 'grasping' conversations in real life. Maybe these two things are related? Especially when people talk fast and are very detailed I tend to zone out and just not absorb what is being said. Others seem to do this just fine. It is not particularly handicapping it's just that some people are harder for me to follow than others. |
|
^^ They probably are related, in terms of what your unconscious is choosing to allow into memory (aka, why bother holding onto all those words being spewed at you, if most of them will never matter?), but you guys reminded me of another thought that crosses my mind now and then: |
|
Well. In my case. I had a dream of a lecture. I was sort of not 'zoning in' and more or less absorbed in the surroundings and the environment and didn't actually pay that close attention to what was actually being said. I know it was quite important to me. But my ego if you will; believe was lost in awe of what was happening, |
|
Last edited by Dthoughts; 01-26-2015 at 11:48 PM. Reason: Edited twice. Once to quote sageous and once to expand on the meaning of words in dreams
I think I've sometimes asked myself something like this. There have been a number of occasions writing down my dreams where I would sort of wonder whether I really couldn't recall a particular detail, or entire event, or if perhaps the dream simply never defined it in the first place while making me think it did. It's probably similar to how we tend to “fill in” missing information of waking-life memories, even with totally incorrect data, without ever noticing anything wrong. |
|
Last edited by TravisE; 01-26-2015 at 11:22 PM.
I can see where you're coming from, and one could never really know. Besides, everyone has different experiences with their dreams. However, from my perspective from doing dreamwork, is that almost everything in my dreams has meaning. The wacky, the odd, the insightful, the music, the weird messages... even some of the mundane. Of course, that's my subjective views at work, and they can be hard to interpret, but I believe in it none the less. So I would think that it would be unusual for a dream to have meaningless content. Unless, of course, meaninglessness is part of the dream message? |
|
Last edited by Hilary; 01-27-2015 at 01:33 AM.
I had a dream last night. And I was under the impresssion that I had not dreamed at all. Yet, 5 minutes ago and 10 minutes ago I saw (seemingly it just popped in my head) in my mind a clear image. And I can still sort of see the image right now of the dream that I had last night. But the entire content eludes me. Even though I am staring at it right now. This is rather odd, I feel like a piece of me is missing. Whatever it is, sitting at my computer is truly not helping me to remember. I think,. |
|
Just to clarify Dthought's belief about Jung saying that he “knew” God. Actually, Jung was asked in a filmed interview if he believed in God. He replied, “I don’t need to believe, I know” (Jung 1959a, p. 428). |
|
Bookmarks