Here’s what I wrote in my dream journal in February 2009 about a dream with Juan and the demon from The Exorcist. In ths dream, she is in the next room chained to a bed when I get something from Juan in the mail and then have to into her room for some reason. Lots of people have their personal nightmare; you know, the one that re-occurs overs the years, the one that horrifies them to the core, even if sometimes it doesn’t seem very scary when talking about it. Anyhow – I wanted to share a dream today that’s about having a hole in my palm. I’ve noticed before how my intentions with my own dreams often strike back in clever ways. Different kinds of errors can occur when you are using your mail or browsing…
You know, that wonderful place where logic doesn’t apply so well like it does it the real world to contain our fears. I realize if I take a picture of my hand, it’s going to be hard to see the hole. The palm side of the hole is larger than the top of my hand, which is sort of black around the edges of the hole. It’s not huge, but it’s there, and it’s kinda freaking me out. I look it up online and find some dumbass who posted on Yahoo! Answers something about a hole in his hand, complete with an obviously doctored photo of his hand with a big hole in it.
I thought this was very cool twist on the lucid dreaming community’s use of dream signs as a way to test reality to realize you’re dreaming. For me personally, I’ve never had a dream experience that led me to believe that time can stretch in huge ways in the dream world. But I have had visitors here discuss in the comments that they’ve had dreams that lasted years or entire lifetimes – something I must admit I find hard to believe, but nevertheless, am eager to hear about. That little girl from The Exorcist has now appeared in my dreams for years, making many a guest appearance. I had a dream that tied into this method for reality testing, which is both clever and maddening at once.
The idea that dream time gets exponentially longer as you move down each level of a dream within a dream was very clever both as a plot device and just as an idea on dreams. The idea that within each dream inside a dream one is closer to both the subconscious and an increasingly unstable dreamscape is awesome. This is very cool and I don’t believe I’ve seen any film on dreams mention this concept. In the beginning of the film, Leonardo Dicaprio is training his new dream architect and asks her how they got to where they are now. She cannot remember and realizes that they are actually in a dream right then and there.
I’m showing N and someone else this, in my bathroom, and they think it’s a magic trick. I am fascinated by what mechanism is at work that allows for this to occur commonly in dreams. And so on, all the way on down to your own identify in the dream as being someone else, all the while this being just the way it is and nothing you or anyone gives any notice to as being odd.
I’ve cut myself in a horrible accident and am bleeding all the way from my hands to my shoulder on my right arm. I’m trying to hold down the skin broken around my elbow yet it’s just bulging with overflowing blood. Every one is trying to convince Marge that she didn’t not to sew up my cut.
It hints at some kind of intelligence operating within our dreaming minds, unconscious or irrelevant to our intentions. This is a great method for reality testing because you can do this no matter where you are, in any context, in both the dream world and in waking life. Yep, they hit the nail on the head with that one and it was nice to see it be a strong part of the story. I loved how the dream characters became resistant to the people coming into the dreams when they sensed someone was messing with their world, like a subconscious psychological defense of the dreaming mind. Of course, this doesn’t mean that all dreams experience time like this, does it?
Perhaps it was just that one dreamers experience and that specific dream. This is definitely something familiar to lucid dreamers as a means of lucid dream induction. I.e. to train yourself to ask the question “How did I get here? ” so that you do it while dreaming, and it becomes a lucid dream cue. In fact, I’d say this is the best film that’s come along that is specifically about dreams and the architecture of the dreaming mind since Vanilla Sky was released in 2001. This fear slowly dissipated in its intensity over the years; but instead of becoming something I ignorantly feared, it just turned into a fear deep in my head, somewhere.
5) The notion that characters in our dreams are projections of our subconscious. 3) The huge use of dreams within dreams and false awakenings. 2) The discussion on how dreams just “start” without a beginning.
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