Comments on: Vivid Dream: A Survey http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/10/26/vivid-dream-a-survey/ A blog about mental health Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:27:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: therapydoc http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/10/26/vivid-dream-a-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-2678 therapydoc Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:26:58 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/10/26/vivid-dream-a-survey/#comment-2678 Thanks for the links. Now I know where to send the bloggers who want me to expand upon my it's the pizzatheme. And for the more intellectual, they represent fears or wishes, No, no further clarification necessary. Thanks for the links. Now I know where to send the bloggers who want me to expand upon my it’s the pizzatheme.

And for the more intellectual, they represent fears or wishes, No, no further clarification necessary.

]]> By: John http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/10/26/vivid-dream-a-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-2677 John Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:16:41 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/10/26/vivid-dream-a-survey/#comment-2677 I do have more bad than good dreams, but the worst ones that keep waking me up are those of my wife. She does two things in her dreams. One is to speak her way through them at a level of vocalization and mouth gymnastics that are just below my ability to comprehend. The emotion, usually anger, is clear but the words are like those of a bad ventriloquist - an ominous mumbling through unmoving lips. The other thing she does is quite audible and understandable. She just shouts - not a scream - a very loud shout - and she can really belt it out. I sit bolt upright wondering if I am about to be killed, realize what's going on and start considering what I'm doing in that dream to get yelled at. I also comfort her and try to wake her up. That is all very disturbing. Often my own dreams are about big discoveries, powerful epiphanies or imminent death and destruction at the hands of a brutal monster. My wife is often angry at me because I dream about this big stuff, and she dreams about shopping or losing her glasses or fighting with someone taking her place in a half-mile long line. That sort of content, though, doesn't quite explain the nocturnal energy, especially anger, she pours out in those dreams. Whatever she goes through in her sleep, it has proved very helpful. I may get yelled at and scared to death in the middle of the night by this stiff-lipped threatening mumbler next to me, but during the day we get along a whole lot better. So I'll take the bad dreams with the good. John I do have more bad than good dreams, but the worst ones that keep waking me up are those of my wife. She does two things in her dreams. One is to speak her way through them at a level of vocalization and mouth gymnastics that are just below my ability to comprehend. The emotion, usually anger, is clear but the words are like those of a bad ventriloquist – an ominous mumbling through unmoving lips. The other thing she does is quite audible and understandable. She just shouts – not a scream – a very loud shout – and she can really belt it out. I sit bolt upright wondering if I am about to be killed, realize what’s going on and start considering what I’m doing in that dream to get yelled at. I also comfort her and try to wake her up.

That is all very disturbing. Often my own dreams are about big discoveries, powerful epiphanies or imminent death and destruction at the hands of a brutal monster. My wife is often angry at me because I dream about this big stuff, and she dreams about shopping or losing her glasses or fighting with someone taking her place in a half-mile long line. That sort of content, though, doesn’t quite explain the nocturnal energy, especially anger, she pours out in those dreams. Whatever she goes through in her sleep, it has proved very helpful. I may get yelled at and scared to death in the middle of the night by this stiff-lipped threatening mumbler next to me, but during the day we get along a whole lot better. So I’ll take the bad dreams with the good.

John

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