...Or so my dream told me in a dry, matter-of-fact voice that was somehow amusing enough to make me chuckle while I was waking up.
This came on the tail-end of a series of strange-experience dreams: about a gaming-hunting-type feel where I was poking some hideous-looking harpies with a special staff and pulling out their guts, not in a way that would kill them, I reminded the audience watching me, but in a way that proved to them beyond a doubt just how vile they were (the sight would have them shrieking in horror at their identity/state of being, which had me feeling a little bit sorry for them even though they *were* harpies); another about finding and being charmed by a small, old-style, repainted (white) mail delivery Jeep that I bought (or was gifted? that bit was too hazy to remember), and refurbished (I specifically remember the drive-train needing an overhaul) so I could drive it around, and it made all the mail carriers in their newer vehicles both curious and envious; another dream with something to do about boxes and the wrong-headed comfort that comes from storing things in them.
So, on this thoughtful Sunday morning I've been thinking about the highlighted explorative nature of dreams. Of how boldly *different* dreams can be (if only we have the attitude set to allow them), usually without, as my dream reminded me, any kind of hang-ups or morays or restrictions. Notice, that isn't the same as it being or seeming permissive about foolish stuff, but more about the *nature* of it (which, to me, is tied closely to empathy and how that works). When people kink-shame, they are, by default, having *no* empathy, because when they do have empathy--even if they strongly disapprove--their reactions tend to be different than kink-shaming, which has me wonder if that's one outward/measurable signs of a total *lack* of empathy. So it seems in many dreams, things tend to be presented or given-as-experience to us, and it's only as we're waking up or thinking back on it that any kind of harsher judgement gets applied (by the conscious-trained mind).
Have you also found this to be true; if not, how has your dream presentation "type" differed? Anyone else want to journey with me down this thought trail?
This came on the tail-end of a series of strange-experience dreams: about a gaming-hunting-type feel where I was poking some hideous-looking harpies with a special staff and pulling out their guts, not in a way that would kill them, I reminded the audience watching me, but in a way that proved to them beyond a doubt just how vile they were (the sight would have them shrieking in horror at their identity/state of being, which had me feeling a little bit sorry for them even though they *were* harpies); another about finding and being charmed by a small, old-style, repainted (white) mail delivery Jeep that I bought (or was gifted? that bit was too hazy to remember), and refurbished (I specifically remember the drive-train needing an overhaul) so I could drive it around, and it made all the mail carriers in their newer vehicles both curious and envious; another dream with something to do about boxes and the wrong-headed comfort that comes from storing things in them.
So, on this thoughtful Sunday morning I've been thinking about the highlighted explorative nature of dreams. Of how boldly *different* dreams can be (if only we have the attitude set to allow them), usually without, as my dream reminded me, any kind of hang-ups or morays or restrictions. Notice, that isn't the same as it being or seeming permissive about foolish stuff, but more about the *nature* of it (which, to me, is tied closely to empathy and how that works). When people kink-shame, they are, by default, having *no* empathy, because when they do have empathy--even if they strongly disapprove--their reactions tend to be different than kink-shaming, which has me wonder if that's one outward/measurable signs of a total *lack* of empathy. So it seems in many dreams, things tend to be presented or given-as-experience to us, and it's only as we're waking up or thinking back on it that any kind of harsher judgement gets applied (by the conscious-trained mind).
Have you also found this to be true; if not, how has your dream presentation "type" differed? Anyone else want to journey with me down this thought trail?