Seasons

Many of my epic length dreams have to do with demonic or hostile-otherworldly entities, but ever since I was a small child I have tried to train myself to appriciate them because when I was 5 or 6 I discovered that the best way to get rid of hiccups was to enjoy them (reason being: everything you enjoy will go away- yeah I was a real laugh-a-minute child, eh); however, keeping in line with 'the universe enjoys black humor', they didnt go away, but in fact became more frequent and complex. Now I love them and wouldnt call them nightmares, but they are often quite terrifying.

I've had dreams with subtitles before. Or sometimes I'll be reading a book in the dream, and then for part of it I'll be acting out the story instead of reading it.

I've dreamt in German before, even though that's only my third language. I'd spent the day practising and practising for my German speaking test and somehow when I went to bed, something clicked and in my dream, I thought and spoke in German. It was very weird.

Maybe I'm weird for having sexual dreams! One thing I have noticed is that the more I dislike the person, the more aggressive the dream is, if you get my drift. If the dream involves someone I don't necessarily hate, just someone I don't think of in that way, then it tends to be more a romantic dream. Perhaps that's some psychological thing; I can't take out my aggression on the person in real life so it manifests as a different sort of aggression - passion bordering on violence - in my dream. Just call me Freud.

I often have dreams that switch between genres, and whether I'm a participant or observer. I might start off participating, then be drawn back and now I'm watching it like a tv show, then I'll remember something from the book the show was supposedly based on (which usually doesn't exist outside of dreamland). I don't remember ever having subtitles, but I do get voiceovers on occasion.

Here's a dream I had a few years back, drawn as a comic strip by my friend Jesse Reklaw. You folks who are interested in dreams ought to check out Jesse's site...

http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=02-07-27

...drempt I was watching The Amityville Horror pt 4 starring Jack Black as the new home owner and the little kid from 8 is enough as the son/possesion victim. It featured a scene with KISS playing a benefit concert in Amityville. My fist thought on waking was "Not even Wisconsn has that much cheese!"

Would you tell your spouse/partner/whatever if you had an erotic dream about someone else?

I suppose it would be a cheap shot to be mean to Laydee (see message 2198) in hopes of getting into her dreams!

Irina: purely erotic? I suppose I would. Love based? I might be more hesitant.

I wouldn't. I just can't see anything good coming out of whatever conversation would follow that.

I might acknowledge that my mind wanders sometimes, but anything more detailed is just asking for a night on the couch.

Exactly- thats why I made the distinction between mere eros and deeper emotional connection. One say "I am sexual" the other says "I am needing something"