(August 2, 2013 at 9:58 am)wandering soul Wrote: Back in the 1980s I spent a couple of years in intensive dream recording.
yes Apophenia, I know, a lot of hooey.
except I'm not talking about "dream interpretation" nor psychic consultation of dreams to get advice on how to find a new love. There are reputable studies of the physiological functions and role of dreams as well as numerous psychological studies of the same.
I'm talking about listening to my own unconscious for clues about things my conscious mind is either ignoring or misrepersenting.
eg: my conscious mind is saying "I've got this. I can make this happen; I can make them understand; I can work the angles; I can power through" and the unconscious starts weighing in with dreams that are conveying that I'm missing important feedback from others; I'm behaving badly; I'm exhausting myself psychologically and physically, and the unconscious is saying "you haven't got this under control, back off, back down and re-think this"
I know that is also a bunch of hooey - I just wanted to clarify which type of hooey I was spouting.
having passed through many states of believing I was right I have come to the place of finding "rightness" rather irrelevant to the project of becoming human
