Dreams Like Crazy

I was hospitalized for possible pneumonia I guess. Anyway after being there a few days I started dreaming like crazy. I’m not sure if it was the lack of responsibility or the meds or both. The last night there and into today I just wanted to go back into a dream and it would happen. After I came home I put on a disk by Stephen LaBerge and let it repeat over and over. It continued to happen. The dreams where very vivid and adventures even though I was not lucid. I played a particular role and would repeatedly reenter the same dream. In the hospital you meals are served and the hardest decision to make is what channel to watch on TV. I asked for a tranquillizer because the doctors did not know I was using sleeping pills at home. By the way, sleeping pills just knock me out with no dream recall. The first tranquilizer thy gave me was Adivan then they switched it to Xanax. This will be second night home without the tranquilizers. I hope it continues. Has anyone had a similar experience with being hospitalized or tranquilized?

whoa. crazy. too bad they arent lucid eh? and i have neithe been hospitalized or trnaquilaized, so in wouldn't know.

There was a fascinating little book written years ago by Desmond Morris called "The Naked Ape". He was a professor of Anthropology who suddenly needed some addition to his income and thought that writing a popular book would solve his problem there. It is said he knocked out the book in just 2 or 3 weeks. It was a brilliant little book, and it was perhaps helped by the hurry in which it was written, since it included chapters that might have been thought superfluous or irrelevant had any prolonged attention been applied to them.

One curious section proposed the hypothesis that people sometimes get sick only so they can have some downtime to be nurtured. He supported his Hypothesis with his anecdotal hunch that among all his friend and acquaintance, many times their illnesses would coincide with their Vacations and Long Weekends... he suspected that it was odd that people would only get sick when it seemed convenient.

Well, perhaps this is what has happened with you. Your Sickness was deliberately imposed upon yourself in order to give yourself this period of Reflection and Spiritual Growth.

Falling ill during annual leave is very common
particularly if you have a stressful job
when you take time off, you let your defences down
and are more susceptible to bugs your immune system would normally deal with quickly

mind takes a rest
body goes "oh, ok then"
Bam - you have a cold

I don't think it has anything to do with needing "spiritual growth"
it's just the body's defences shifting down a few gears in response to the brain's period of rest

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Originally posted by Leo Volont
There was a fascinating little book written years ago by Desmond Morris called \"The Naked Ape\". He was a professor of Anthropology who suddenly needed some addition to his income and thought that writing a popular book would solve his problem there. It is said he knocked out the book in just 2 or 3 weeks. It was a brilliant little book, and it was perhaps helped by the hurry in which it was written, since it included chapters that might have been thought superfluous or irrelevant had any prolonged attention been applied to them.

One curious section proposed the hypothesis that people sometimes get sick only so they can have some downtime to be nurtured. He supported his Hypothesis with his anecdotal hunch that among all his friend and acquaintance, many times their illnesses would coincide with their Vacations and Long Weekends... he suspected that it was odd that people would only get sick when it seemed convenient.

Well, perhaps this is what has happened with you. Your Sickness was deliberately imposed upon yourself in order to give yourself this period of Reflection and Spiritual Growth.

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I myself would hope for spiritual gain. One would like to be sure. I am sure whom I serve and whether sick of fit as fettle I will be glad to receive what life’s trials await.