Daily Writing, Remembering Dreams☼

       As soon as I wake up, most of the times I can remember my dreams, and sometimes they are the reason I wake up in the middle of the night. Some are vivid; some are blurry ones, and some I can’t even recall. But what is curious about them is their meaning, if they have any. Recently, I did the technique of writing about your dreams as soon as you woke up, and try remembering as much as possible. Having done this activity for some days, one can then look back at them and in these; one might discover an aspect of oneself or of one’s personality that is hidden in the unconsciousness. As Carl Young says in his book, “Soon I realized it was right to take dreams in this way as the basis of interpretation.” It’s interesting his reflection of writing his own dreams; he saw it as art and that his unconscious was forming a personality that was not him.

         It worked for me; although I might not be sure of the exact meaning of them, I can make inferences and learn about my unconscious, which is the one “working” while sleeping. I also believe though that’s not always true because in dreams, where I find myself in situations that happened to me in real life, I feel like if I had the knowledge of what to do or if something is wrong. Therefore, I believe there’s a connection between the conscious, which knows the outcome of a situation and the unconscious, which is experiencing or creating the situation at that moment in my dreams. Neither do I want to leave behind the fact that dream interpretation is a complicated topic, for there are innumerable perceptions about dreams.  

         Last night I dreamt that I was on the beach, just walking in the sand as if heading nowhere, and then I found my family. I recall that suddenly I found myself in another place with my high school classmates, and we were at a fancy party wearing long dresses and having quite fun. I have the perception I felt somehow lost or lonely; here’s the part where I say my unconscious intertwines with my conscious and I get the present feeling, but in an unreal situation, which is my dream. I’m not sure what that means, but it definitely says something about me. Lately, in most of my dreams, I have the thought that a tsunami is going to occur, so I’m always wondering about that, too. As for last night I woke up at midnight, but I cannot remember what happened in the dream that caused me to wake up. Most or the time these are vivid or colorful, for I can see the faces of people in them clearly, and even recognize the feelings I experience while I’m in my dreams.