I dreamed I didn't rob a bank

[daniel]

I almost never remember my dreams. But I remember two from last night.

In one dream I drove into the parking lot of the bank in Arthur, North Dakota (near where I lived for many years) with a childhood friend, with the intention of robbing the bank. But as I pulled into the parking lot (the bank actually has no parking lot -- in Arthur you can always park on the street) I reflected upon the fact that it was Wednesday, and my friend and I had robbed this particular bank on each of the past 3 or 4 successive Wednesdays, and to try to rob it again on this day would be pushing our luck. So I turned around and drive away.

I actually have no need of robbing a bank, no interest in robbing a bank, and nothing against this particular bank, which as banks go is a good bank.

[auricchio]

I robbed that bank that day.... :-;

[dragonfly]

Did you eat too much candy yesterday?

[Starfall]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec 26 2006, 04:50 PM) [snapback]366806[/snapback]</div>

I actually have no need of robbing a bank, no interest in robbing a bank, and nothing against this particular bank, which as banks go is a good bank.
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You can bank on that or put your money where your mouth is or something like that.

As for me, I dreamed that I never read this post. Indeed, I had never heard of PriusChat. What's more, I owned a Hummer2 (or is that 3 by now?). Whatever...

Then again, maybe I just dreamed that I actually got a decent night's sleep!

[dreichla]

What would Freud say?

[Starfall]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dreichla @ Dec 26 2006, 09:08 PM) [snapback]366933[/snapback]</div>

What would Freud say?[/b]

Cognito *ego* sum.

[barbaram]

Daniel-
our dreams are replays of our days, the method of our brain storing them away.
was there something that happened, a bonus of some sort , that maybe you feel you did not really deserve? or something you almost did , but cancelled at the last minute?
think back to your day and you may be surprised at what you discover!

[Schmika]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(barbaram @ Dec 26 2006, 11:43 PM) [snapback]366963[/snapback]</div>

Daniel-
our dreams are replays of our days, the method of our brain storing them away.
was there something that happened, a bonus of some sort , that maybe you feel you did not really deserve? or something you almost did , but cancelled at the last minute?
think back to your day and you may be surprised at what you discover!
[/b]

Dreams mean absolutly nothing. They are just random firings of our neurons during REM sleep and I think people who analye dreams should be locked up. (Or did I just dream that is what I think, or did I just think that is what I dream?)

I dream therefore I am?

To sleep, perchance to dream.

I will admit, I have occasionally dreamed I was falling only to wake up falling off my bed. Is that what they mean by dreams imitating life, or is that life imitating artr? I'll have to sleep (dream) on that.

[daniel]

Dragonfly: No candy here. Today marks two full weeks on my diet. And though I cheat a bit by allowing myself double or triple rations of veggies (broccoli, string beans, etc.) I have stuck with it and my stomach has been very happy. (Overeating makes my stomach grumpy.)

Freud has been pretty much discredited. Too much of his observations were artifacts of his peculiarly repressed society.

Barbaram: I don't really feel I deserve anything of what I have. My father was an astute businessman who accumulated a good chunk of wealth, and I got 1/8 of it without doing anything for it. On the other hand, I put up with my step-mother for half a century, and that should entitle me to some compensation. But there's nothing special about yesterday in that respect.

Maybe the dream was because I feel like having this money is like having robbed a bank, but now I have plenty and need no more. That particular bank was probably just because I banked there for something like 20 years, and still have a CD there because they've continued to offer me a competitive rate.

I do think we can sometimes learn something from our dreams, but not in the deterministic way some dream analysts claim.

"Two gates the silent house of sleep adorn:
Of polished ivory this, that of transparent horn;
True visions through transparent horn arise;
Through polished ivory pass deluding lies."

-- From Dryden's translation of the Aeneid, Book VI.

For me the curious thing is that I almost never remember my dreams, but this night I remembered two of them. (I mentioned the other in another thread.)

[dragonfly]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Schmika @ Dec, 06:49 PM) [snapback]366968[/snapback]</div>

Dreams mean absolutly nothing. They are just random firings of our neurons during REM sleep and I think people who analye dreams should be locked up.
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My dreams sometimes seem random, but other times correlate very well to what is going on in my life. Like the time I dreamed I could fly. That was an awesome dream! It felt so real. It was during a time in my career that things were working out very well. I had a bad one some years earlier after a co-worker died who was crucial to our team and things were going very poorly at work, and in that dream I was falling. And then there's that darn recurring dream I have of going to work topless and trying to act like it's normal. I have no idea what that means.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec, 07:40 PM) [snapback]366992[/snapback]</div>

Dragonfly: No candy here. Today marks two full weeks on my diet. And though I cheat a bit by allowing myself double or triple rations of veggies (broccoli, string beans, etc.) I have stuck with it and my stomach has been very happy. (Overeating makes my stomach grumpy.)
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Right on Daniel! Keep it up!