The Wrongness of Dreams
May. 30th, 2022 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinMonths of silence, and I come back to post about dreams again, sorry ...
It's very uncommon for me to dream about people I know in real life. Sometimes there are recurring characters, but generally everyone is an NPC. When people I do know turn up in my dreams, they're completely random – good friends and family get equal screen time with people I met once or twice ten years ago. No matter how obsessed I am with a book or film, it won't infiltrate my subconscious – with the baffling exception of The Great Escape which monopolised my dreamspace for three solid months when I was 14. I liked the film a lot but have only seen it once, in large part because I'm afraid of what will happen if I watch it again.
I bring this up because I've just come back from a long trip reconnecting with friends and family in North America. They're exactly the sort of valued, close connections I can generally count on not seeing when I'm asleep, but they've turned up nearly every night, and, contrary to the great time I had with them in person, have been acting like complete jerks. Is this a thing in dreams? Does it mean something? Is it just a trick of jetlag, and/or crankiness from my sore back expressing itself emotionally? It's been a consistent running theme, and I'm not sure what to make of it.
It's very uncommon for me to dream about people I know in real life. Sometimes there are recurring characters, but generally everyone is an NPC. When people I do know turn up in my dreams, they're completely random – good friends and family get equal screen time with people I met once or twice ten years ago. No matter how obsessed I am with a book or film, it won't infiltrate my subconscious – with the baffling exception of The Great Escape which monopolised my dreamspace for three solid months when I was 14. I liked the film a lot but have only seen it once, in large part because I'm afraid of what will happen if I watch it again.
I bring this up because I've just come back from a long trip reconnecting with friends and family in North America. They're exactly the sort of valued, close connections I can generally count on not seeing when I'm asleep, but they've turned up nearly every night, and, contrary to the great time I had with them in person, have been acting like complete jerks. Is this a thing in dreams? Does it mean something? Is it just a trick of jetlag, and/or crankiness from my sore back expressing itself emotionally? It's been a consistent running theme, and I'm not sure what to make of it.
