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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1722)	10/16/2000 4:48:08 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

You know, my experience with dream and meta-dream states is fascinating. To me at least. There are places that I've been to before in recurrent dreams. They aren't based on anywhere real but, I could draw you a map of the place or a picture of it. One of the many recurring venues that appear in dream locations is a haunted house on a river, maybe in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama (hint: I have one branch of my family from the South). I generally try to live in the unhaunted part. I frequently try to claim the part that is haunted for practical reasons (rooms for guests, simply need the room for storage) but never without waking the manifestations there which always drive me out simply through the impracticality of having to deal with manifestations. The place has changed over the years like someone remodels it in my absence, but is always recognizable as the "same place". Sometimes the manifestations are an incidental sub-plot; sometimes they are the subject. I'm not frightened in these dreams, more like irritated, or sometimes accepting, so it isn't a nightmare. Clearly it COULD be metaphoric, but really, what the heck is it and what is its function? Is my brain cleaning house, or just "doodling" waiting for my body to rest? I think dreams are often allegorical venues for working out situations you face in your life. The metaphor sometimes escapes me even with considerable introspection, but sometimes it hackneyed and obvious, maybe even "heavy handed" (I've got to get better writers!). Or, it seems like it might be symbolic, but in conscious life, I don't necessarily get the symbolism, even when I share them with my spouse who knows me and my symbolic dictionary well. Sometimes the symbols are obvious like in Freudian or Jungian dream interpretation. Sometimes, the dreams are what I describe as "recreational" dreams that seem to lack any substantive metaphor and exist for their own reasons alone, maybe even my amusement!