I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. that's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.
Col. Walter E. Kurtz (Apocalypse Now 1979)
Was the snail Kurtz dreamt of our American men who had been sent to a foreign land, a "Green Hell", where they pressed there luck, trusting in the judgment of men who knew little to nothing of the land or the people that they were up against. Crawling along that proverbial straight razor and praying to survive through to next day in a strange nightmare of a land. Was the snail really the Vietcong and NVA who were one with their land, in the trees and under the ground, crawling and slithering on their bellies, living on the edge of the razor to chase out foreign invaders to their land. In the end they survived.
Vietnam was said to have ended at the end of April of 1975. Just how many men still have nightmares about that place? Just how many men and women have and will be coming home to relive there own personal horrors from this present war?
The horror... the horror.
My Dreams and other assorted night terrors
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Deja Vu and Dreaming
According to Websters New World Dictionary: deja vu - (n) a feeling that one has had an experience before, although the experience is actually new.
Deja vu: French for already considering or already seen.
Recently a friend posed the question, "What is actually happening when we experience deja vu? Are our lives actually deeply predestined?"
One person answered, "Neurological short circuit. Our brains are similar to our computers. We have short term easy access memory, and then at the end of the day, when we dream, we process the days data into long term memory. A "deja vu" is when a short term memory (what just happened a moment ago) is immediately written into long term memory and when retrieved a moment later it feels like it happened ages ago and was pre-seen."
Another had said that they had been told , "deja vu is a sign that you are on the right path."
Both interesting replies.
Sigmund Freud believed the feeling corresponded to the memory of an unconscious daydream.
Freud in a partial summary of authors who had discussed the issue, separated them into "believers" (who thought that deja vu was proof of a previous existence.), and "non believers", who regard such events as false memories. Freud himself assumes a different position, by believing in the reality of the representative content but associated this with the reactivation of an older unconscious impression.
[ answer.com - S. Mijolla-Mellor]
Fulfillment of a prior premonition of a forthcoming event.
According to Arthur and Joyce Berger " The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research", (It's) connected to experiences of reincarnation when a feeling of prior knowledge is so strong that people feel it must come from a former incarnation. The case of a young girl, Shanti Devi, born in Delhi, India in 1926. She had claimed to live elsewhere in a former life and had gone on to be taken to this place where she identified places, the house, family, and other circumstantial details. There have been other similar circumstances over the years.
Deja vu and dreaming seem to come together quite often. My own personal experience with a dream precognition had nothing to do with me and has always upset me due to the circumstances so I have only mentioned it once to one other person. The dream was a recurring one ( I had had it 2 or 3 times). I was walking through the streets of a large city of glass buildings, everything was in black and white like an old film from the 40's. I was dressed in the style of that era, as was everyone else (all hats and ties, business dresses and silk stockings). I heard the sound of a large airplane and looked up to see it flying low between the giant glass skyscrapers. The plane slams into a building with the loud sound of shattering glass. Giant pieces and glass dust falling everywhere. People running and screaming. I just keep staring up at the scene. Many, many months after I had had the dreams (all of which seemed identical to me) the unfathomable happened and causing me my deja vu and causing a war which we still fight. Now you know why I kept my mouth shut about this dream.
Deja vu: French for already considering or already seen.
Recently a friend posed the question, "What is actually happening when we experience deja vu? Are our lives actually deeply predestined?"
One person answered, "Neurological short circuit. Our brains are similar to our computers. We have short term easy access memory, and then at the end of the day, when we dream, we process the days data into long term memory. A "deja vu" is when a short term memory (what just happened a moment ago) is immediately written into long term memory and when retrieved a moment later it feels like it happened ages ago and was pre-seen."
Another had said that they had been told , "deja vu is a sign that you are on the right path."
Both interesting replies.
Sigmund Freud believed the feeling corresponded to the memory of an unconscious daydream.
Freud in a partial summary of authors who had discussed the issue, separated them into "believers" (who thought that deja vu was proof of a previous existence.), and "non believers", who regard such events as false memories. Freud himself assumes a different position, by believing in the reality of the representative content but associated this with the reactivation of an older unconscious impression.
[ answer.com - S. Mijolla-Mellor]
Fulfillment of a prior premonition of a forthcoming event.
According to Arthur and Joyce Berger " The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research", (It's) connected to experiences of reincarnation when a feeling of prior knowledge is so strong that people feel it must come from a former incarnation. The case of a young girl, Shanti Devi, born in Delhi, India in 1926. She had claimed to live elsewhere in a former life and had gone on to be taken to this place where she identified places, the house, family, and other circumstantial details. There have been other similar circumstances over the years.
Deja vu and dreaming seem to come together quite often. My own personal experience with a dream precognition had nothing to do with me and has always upset me due to the circumstances so I have only mentioned it once to one other person. The dream was a recurring one ( I had had it 2 or 3 times). I was walking through the streets of a large city of glass buildings, everything was in black and white like an old film from the 40's. I was dressed in the style of that era, as was everyone else (all hats and ties, business dresses and silk stockings). I heard the sound of a large airplane and looked up to see it flying low between the giant glass skyscrapers. The plane slams into a building with the loud sound of shattering glass. Giant pieces and glass dust falling everywhere. People running and screaming. I just keep staring up at the scene. Many, many months after I had had the dreams (all of which seemed identical to me) the unfathomable happened and causing me my deja vu and causing a war which we still fight. Now you know why I kept my mouth shut about this dream.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
The Problem With Dreams
The problem with dreams is that you don't always remember them or you don't remember enough to make sense of what you have. Some dreams seem to come in short flashes, like a very poorly edited European film. Some dreams are right there when you wake up but disappear in seconds, like spontaneous combustion, you just don't know what hits you. Sometimes you have repeated dreams but don't realize it until it happens three or four times. I believe these to be prophetic in nature, but you rarely realize it until whatever it is the dream is telling you has passed.
I have in the past attempted to keep a notebook next to the bed. This can work, but allot of times you go back, read what you wrote, and say to yourself, "What the hell?"
Keep trying though.
Sweet dreams, unless your like me and have grown to like the nightmares better.
I have in the past attempted to keep a notebook next to the bed. This can work, but allot of times you go back, read what you wrote, and say to yourself, "What the hell?"
Keep trying though.
Sweet dreams, unless your like me and have grown to like the nightmares better.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
What Dreams May Come
A look inside my dreaming world. Sometimes frightening, other times indesipherabely ridiculous.
The true question is what does it really mean? What do you think it means?
A recent dream, speaking of ridiculous.
I meet and become acquainted with a man who is rather hard to get close to as he is very standoffish, cranky, and a bit angry. He looks like Anthony Bourdain We eventually become close friends. Soon a new person enters, a beautiful and kind woman. She is red headed and resembles Ann Margret. We all become close and Anthony and I both fall in love with her. Then Ann develops some form of cancer and becomes very ill. We both watch over her, at one point she appears as a small child, and completely helpless, at this point Tony Bourdain begins to be around less and less, almost as if he is fading. As he disappears Ann becomes her normal full grown self again and she is free of the cancer. I find a note from Anthony. It says She is yours now. I am gone. That ends the dream.
What does this mean? Yes I've had a sometimes cranky but much loved friend, who has passed away because of a tumor and cancer. I dreamt of him the night he passed. He looked nothing like Tony Bourdain. I think Ann Margret is one of the most beautiful women on this planet, but I have never sat and fantasized about her, though she was pretty damn hot in Tommy. That white outfit and all those baked beans :)
In the end I have no clue as to what may had triggered this rather strange but interesting occurrence.
( I have no clue as to why these two people show up in my dream. It is very rare that I dream of people that I don't have some relation to. My dream of John Lennon and his family are the only other non-relative dream I can recall. Write about that one later.)
The true question is what does it really mean? What do you think it means?
A recent dream, speaking of ridiculous.
I meet and become acquainted with a man who is rather hard to get close to as he is very standoffish, cranky, and a bit angry. He looks like Anthony Bourdain We eventually become close friends. Soon a new person enters, a beautiful and kind woman. She is red headed and resembles Ann Margret. We all become close and Anthony and I both fall in love with her. Then Ann develops some form of cancer and becomes very ill. We both watch over her, at one point she appears as a small child, and completely helpless, at this point Tony Bourdain begins to be around less and less, almost as if he is fading. As he disappears Ann becomes her normal full grown self again and she is free of the cancer. I find a note from Anthony. It says She is yours now. I am gone. That ends the dream.
What does this mean? Yes I've had a sometimes cranky but much loved friend, who has passed away because of a tumor and cancer. I dreamt of him the night he passed. He looked nothing like Tony Bourdain. I think Ann Margret is one of the most beautiful women on this planet, but I have never sat and fantasized about her, though she was pretty damn hot in Tommy. That white outfit and all those baked beans :)
In the end I have no clue as to what may had triggered this rather strange but interesting occurrence.
( I have no clue as to why these two people show up in my dream. It is very rare that I dream of people that I don't have some relation to. My dream of John Lennon and his family are the only other non-relative dream I can recall. Write about that one later.)
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