Many friends have been made along the way life has travelled and one from Paris who was met in 1969 always made an extraordinary claim.
He said that he never dreamt.
Sleeping for him was as normal as anybody else but never would he wake up realizing he had experienced any dreams.
It is a statement hard to believe but the long time friend is totally sincere and therefore it must be believed.
Dream experts say though that everyone of us actually dreams.
They say that some of us simply don't remember their dreams.
Because when these people claiming not to dream are brought into a sleep lab and awakened when they experience the part of the sleep called the REM (Rapid Eye Movement), they report they have been dreaming.
Much to their surprise.
Of course people that can't remember their dreams do not suffer of this.
Because they don't know what they are missing.
However, the dreamers among us know better.
They know from experience that dreaming can be spectacular.
Especially for the ones among us that dream in a visual way.
Who can clearly remember visually what they have seen in the dream.
Remembering like a story of H.P. Lovecraft.
And there we hit on something truly amazing.
When a dreamer remembers for example that he is dreaming that he walks through a city, the streets and the buildings can be clearly remembered as if it has been a holiday trip.
But we know that those streets and those buildings do not represent a city that exists in reality.
The city in the dream, every street and every building, has been designed and constructed by the subconscious.
The mind as an architect and set builder.
Streets and houses designed from memories and impressions.
The subconscious generating a fantasy world with realistic elements like a complex design soft ware program on a sophisticated computer.
How great would it be if a machine was developed that could make pictures of the scenes we see in our dreams.
To be able to print what exactly the subconscious comes up with concerning landscapes, cityscapes and even the persons in our dreams.
Dreams made true.
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1 comment:
1. Your new photograph at the top of the web site makes you look like a guy trapped on a desert island.
2. Not all dreams are something we want to be able to capture. Nightmares seem real at the time too.
3. When I am meditating regularly (unlike now) I do not dream, whereas when I am not (like now), I dream intensely. I believe Jung was right to be concerned with our dreams.
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