This is just a cut and paste from my dreams log.
I have almost sixty dreams at this point, which I think is a pretty healthy total over about two months. I haven’t logged every dream I’ve had though because sometimes they are too fleeting, but I’d say I’ve lost probably only 1 out of every 10 nights that I slept, dreamt, and remembered them for even a second. Still, most nights I have dreams and even for naps. I found out also that if I sleep for 20 minutes sometimes I still have a dream.
From looking at the tags, I seem to dream about the things I do the most: I dream a lot about video games, which I spend a lot of time doing, and I dream quite often about television. The reason for the television dreams is pretty interesting. I do not watch television because we don’t have cable or anything, but when I go to sleep, I put on a DVD or watch streaming Netflix, and usually it’s of a television show like Law & Order or CSI.
I also dream a lot about celebrities, which is not surprising. What really surprised me was how often I dream about airplanes. I don’t really fly much, but I don’t much like it when I do. I’m pretty phobic, not that I won’t fly, but I’m always really anxious when I have to. The dream is probably more a manifestation of my anxiety rather than of actual airplanes.
Also corpses, I dream of dead bodies a lot. Probably because of the television I watch before bed (see: the shows I mentioned earlier).
So I am taking those dreams I’m twittering and organizing them with tags on a blog at http://www.imagesfromapoet.com/dreams. If you don’t have a twitter, you can follow the rss feed through the blog, or you can just search by tags. I’ve noticed in the past 20 dreams, most have involved television, as I watch it to fall asleep sometimes. In fact, when I dreamt this:
Making dinner w/my dad. It was a mess. CSI style reinactments of a murder a friend did.
I had fallen asleep during CSI. I have become very reliant on sleeping with some kind of stimulus. Watching Let’s Play videos is another thing that helps me fall asleep. Usually I fall asleep to a raocow video, as the videos aren’t really sequential, which leads me to dream about him more often than I do about most people I actually know. I also dream about school, celebrities, and my dad quite often.
As time goes on, I’ll end up with a large database to sift through. I know there’s something like this on ulillillia’s blog but he organizes it very differently due to his autism. I prefer my set up, as it’s easier to see by date and also by tag, but I’m pretty sure he’s just coding in html since he’s been doing it for more than two years.
I’m even thinking about experimenting with different music, movies, or television to fall asleep to. I’m sure that these things will have effects, as usually the last thing I think about leads into my dreams: last night, I had a long discussion on the internet until 4:00am and dreamt about continuing that argument in the morning.
I dream pretty much every night. Sometimes it’s really frustrating because I have really terrifying or intense dreams. Other times, I dream about pleasant things and wake up refreshed. Dreams make my sleep shorter also, as they will wake me up in the middle of the night.
I can’t figure out if I like this bombardment of dreams. It’s always been like that. Dan says he doesn’t remember his and Dustin says he never really has them. I only don’t remember mine because I don’t immediately write them down.
As a child, I once dreamed that the world was ending because the sun was coming to devour the earth. This was from reading too many books on astronomy (I was/am a geek). The radio was going fuzzy, the sky was going bright and then black, and once it reached a complete blackness, credits started to roll in my dream, making me wonder if maybe my subconscious was trying to save me from freaking out.
