Sleep Improvement

 

 

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake

 

— Erich Fromm

There seems to be a sentiment that my last diary was, GASP, actually well written, which is probably attributable to the fact that I took a nap right before I wrote it. However, today I’m sleep deprived as usual, so I’m sure this diary’s going to be quite bad, but, frankly, you’re just going to have to live with it. Diary beggars can’t be diary choosers.

 

Sleep is a wondrous thing though isn’t it? If a 30 minute nap can turn my drivel into instant art, then who knows what 8 hours a day could do? I think they should do a scientific study, personally.

 

And as a bonus with sleep, not only can we become re-energized after a nice nap, but we can also gain access into our unconscious and, possibly, our future through our dreams. Our society is quite obsessed with the meaning of dreams, no? In fact, I bet the worst thing about being a psychologist is that all your patients keep asking you to interpret their dreams, while you’re actually trying to treat them.

 

So, the question remains: what deep meaning do these dreams have? Are they messages from God? Are we entering into another dimension, possibly the afterlife, where we can communicate with the dead? Are they signs about our future? Are they secret windows into our unconscious?

 

I’ve heard all of these theories, but I tend to doubt most of them. I mean, I guess dreams COULD be messages from God, but, then, why does God keep telling me all this boring stuff? Why not just get to the point? Why am I in my underwear? Does God think that’s funny? Perhaps, he does, but I’m not comfortable with God sending messages involving me nude, so we’ll scratch that one.

 

I also actually skimmed a few books which claim that dreams allow us to move into another dimension, sometimes the afterlife, that allows us to communicate with the dead. Well, I guess being naked makes sense here, because you wouldn’t want to carry your clothes into the next dimension, which is why I want to go there with Britney Spears ASAP. Still, I doubt that dreams are the keys to entering into our naked afterlife, but I’m going to start taking Enzyte next week just in case.

 

Then, there’s the theory that dreams are signs of things that will happen in the future. In fact, occasionally you’ll hear stories about people who dreamed something, told a friend about it, and, then, a few days later it actually happened. Investigating these things can be pretty interesting, but there’s one major problem: Why do I keep dreaming all this stuff that never happens? I mean, I haven’t gone to the bus stop naked yet. And, as much stuff as I dream, aren’t the odds that eventually some of it will happen? So, if this theory is true, we definitely only dream about the future some of the time and there’s really no way you can tell when you’re dreaming about the future and when you’re just having one of the regulars, so, what’s the point?

 

Finally, there’s the other theory that dreams are basically just our unconscious getting its fair TV time in our brains. This is actually what I believe, but it really makes me wonder about my unconscious sometimes. Sure, some of it makes sense, I dream about going to the bus stop naked, because, unconsciously, I’m afraid I’m going to do it. However, last night I dreamed about a Purple Donkey. Why is a Purple Donkey in my unconscious? How would it get there? Do I have an unconscious fear of Purple Donkeys? There’s no way I can really know, because, well, I don’t think I have a fear of Purple Donkeys, but, then, that’s why it’s called the unconscious, because you don’t know about it. So, basically, this one’s got me stumped too.

 

Now, that you’ve read through all this mumbo jumbo, I know you’re asking yourself, what was the point? What’s the moral of this diary? The moral is that, well, dreams probably aren’t messages from God, or the first step into the afterlife. We’re probably not going to gather a great deal about our future from them either. However, if we looked at everything rationally, life would be boring, so, tonight, dream your wildest dreams ever and take out of them whatever meaning you’d like. They are you’re dreams after all.