I was watching, "Nova: What Are Dreams?", on Netflix instant view yesterday. A very interesting documentary that, as the title suggests, looks at why we dream and what dreams mean. There are two types of dreams, non-REM dreams and REM dreams. One cycle of sleep is around 90 minutes and happens like this: Awake, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage 4, Stage 5, and REM (Rapid Eye Movement) which is the deepest form of sleep and then the cycle starts over again at Stage 1. For a normal person this cycle will happen 4 or 5 times in a single night of sleep. In the show they talk about how dreams during the first 5 stages of sleep are fast clips of information and your brain uses that to try and understand the current feelings and thoughts that were dominant for today. Then when you hit REM sleep the dream is closer to real time and the brain fills in the gaps, trying to find solutions and project future scenarios allowing your mind to explore possibilities. The show says, “dreams are relatively transparent...dreams tend to reflect people's emotional concerns and things that preoccupy them in their social lives.”
One of the scientist suggested that it is possible to control what information the dreams will concentrate on. She suggests that before you go to sleep, think about a specific concern or ask yourself a question over and over. You brain can take the most recent thought to build dreams off of unless you have a stronger emotional concern from earlier in the day. So, I decided to test this and before I went to sleep I asked myself, 'what do I need to change to be happy?' This is the dream I had and after that I will give my interpretation of that dream.
My dream after asking, 'What do I need to change to be happy?'
I went to a movie theater and was at the concession stand getting a large soda. There was a good looking girl behind the counter not doing anything but chewing gum and looking at her nails while everyone else worked. She told me she was hungry and asked me to go get her some breakfast from Burger King. I had some time before my movie started and said okay. I saw a sign outside that said there was a Burger King in the shopping center, so I started walking around the building to find it. But, I only found a McDonald's. I walked a little farther around the building and then found another McDonald's. I was starting to get hungry myself and thought a Big Mac sounded really good right now, but I was looking for a Burger King and continued my walk. I then came across another McDonald's. I thought maybe I missed something and I started to get frustrated because my movie was going to start soon and then ran back around the building, but all I could find were McDonald's. I looked down at my watch and saw that I missed the movie, it had already started. I sat down on a bench with my soda frustrated. The bench melted away and I fell into a grave in the dirt, but the dirt was black soot and there were only 3 sides. At my head the grave opened up into the apartment of the girl that was behind the concession stand, she was sitting with a friend in the kitchen eating a Burger King breakfast. Apparently, she already had plans to get breakfast with her friend, but wanted it sooner and for free so she has asked me to get it for her. I started to get angry and wanted to lunge out at her, but my back was wet. I sat up and looked down, I had landed on my soda and smashed the cup into the ground. I looked at the girl and said to myself, “fuck it”, and started to pull the soot into the grave. I covered the cup and let it pour into the girls kitchen. I filled the grave in as I climbed and got the soot level high enough inside for me to get out of the grave. Then I woke up.
My interpretation of my dream.
I should do the things I want to do and not what others want me to do. I do not need to do things to earn the affection of a women, it will never work and any woman that requires me to earn her affection is not worth my time anyway. Because, women like that use their looks to gain whatever they can from people willing to give. They will take from you until you have nothing left and then move on to the next easy target.
I should not worry about the food I eat as much as I do and eat the foods I enjoy and instead just watch the portion amounts. Listen to my cravings within reason, the mind gives us cravings for a reason. It is better to be happy, healthy, and chubby then it is to be depressed, unhealthy, and thin. I should drink less soda, quite smoking, and exercise more or I am going to put myself into an early grave.
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