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.
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Date: 2022-05-30 11:21 pm (UTC)I still live with the regret that my dreamed version of Revenge of the Sith (surely due to great anticipation of going to see it in the theater the next day) was more narratively compelling than the movie turned out to be.