tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275647556822319577.post4503711818209905103..comments2013-09-10T22:44:49.374-06:00Comments on The Surface of the Sun: Psychoanalyze My DreamsSrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05047071622745270815noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275647556822319577.post-60567744462554071452012-03-19T08:28:50.643-06:002012-03-19T08:28:50.643-06:00On the Interpretation of Dreams: A Treatise
Inter...On the Interpretation of Dreams: A Treatise<br /><br />Interpreting dreams is neither art nor science. It is most decidedly a labor of the insane. Why, you ask? <br />1) Interpreting a dream is like interpreting a poem. A futile attempt that English teachers make to have you like poetry. Looking for symbols in poetry, in my opinion, has to be the single most pointless venture ever. I can do it, anyone really can: especially those with active imaginations. You can put any interpretation to any symbol. Which leads me to…<br />2) Because all interpretations are subject to those that give them. Freud would have you believe that all dreams are sexual. Dreammoods.com only gives answers in the most vague of terms. Even I can do that. You spoke of being a detective, yes?<br /><br />DETECTIVE:<br /> To dream that you are a detective symbolizes that something in your waking life is askew. You are searching for answers to your problem and more often than not come to red herrings. To solve the mystery in your dreams means that you will soon come to an epiphany in your life. <br />Contrariwise, a detective is a symbol of knowledge. You may find yourself lording your knowledge over your friends or acquaintances. Puzzles hold no challenge over you.<br /><br />See, pure insanity. It gives two meanings, which are diametrically opposed to each other. Dreams in my worlds mean almost absolutely nothing. Your dreams, to me, sound like a person that has been reading a lot of fantasy and mystery novels. You may also be watching a show where someone of supreme intelligence figures out the solution to every problem, sometimes at the last minute. (And according to your Facebook statuses I know that this is what you are doing)<br />Your mind is attempting to take in all the stimuli you have had and make sense of it all. At one point in my life I read too many Clue books (most awesome things ever) and had many disturbing dreams. I dreamt of bombs, murder mysteries, and friends in dolphin costumes. What does that all mean? It meant that I needed to take a break from a genre for a while.<br />There are other times that dreams do mean something. These ones are usually the ones that you cannot definitively explain by the stimuli that you have received. Pay attention to these, but do not worry if you don’t understand them and never will until that aha moment you will get when the problem arises and you know what to do.<br />The best advice I can give on interpreting dreams and asking for interpretations, take them with a grain of salt. Just because you saw red doesn’t mean that you contain energy, or the lack thereof (http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=red and search for red. It is near the bottom). Take dreams for what they are, or can become: great stories. Some people need drugs to see the hallucinations that lead to stories (inexpert opinion of how Alice in Wonderland came about [or quite possibly he had that dream, weird mathematicians]), but all you need to do is close your eyes.Simkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275647556822319577.post-87511632543783483562012-03-15T08:08:12.272-06:002012-03-15T08:08:12.272-06:00I have a comment, but no way to type quickly. I wi...I have a comment, but no way to type quickly. I will do it SundaySimkinsnoreply@blogger.com