I was actually having a cogent, connective dream this morning that I remembered upon rising. Usually I remember in a half-conscious way at the moment of waking and then it is gone the next instant. Through my life, obviously, I’ve had and recalled plenty of dreams. But they’ve been happening less and less, the ones I remember anyway. For the past year I’ve been virtually dreamless. Oh, I know I’m having them, we all are, we have to. But it’s as if a great distance has grown up between me and them. Between my conscious and subconscious mind? I hardly think of myself as someone not connected to my subconscious, so why would I have this gulf?
I’ve considered the possibility that my dreams are more mundane, less significant-seeming and intense than they once were. Not worth remembering. Based on the flashes that I might recall through the day (if I’m lucky), there seems to be something to this: my dreams are both blah and abstract (little for the conscious mind to cling to). It also occurs to me that I sleep less then I used to. I wake up at five, I get maybe seven hours of sleep usually. Maybe one has better dreams when they stay asleep longer. I’d buy that. But is there any way I can have significant dreams and remember them without staying in bed all morning?
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