{"id":14152,"date":"2024-04-15T06:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14152"},"modified":"2024-04-15T06:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T05:58:50","slug":"misc-extremely-weird-dark-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14152","title":{"rendered":"MiSC: Extremely Weird Dark Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This Crumb cover has the feel of dream imagery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Woah, Nelly! I just roused myself from a rather unpleasant dream. I wonder why such things happen? Is the mind rehearsing scenarios from which to practice escape? Or is it just the morbidity of plain unadulterated fear?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kind of don\u2019t want to give the ideas in the dreams the oxygen of further thought. And yet at the same time they\u2019re darkly compelling and fascinating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point there was a veritable maelstrom or kaleidoscope of imagery. Indeed, it\u2019s my suspicion most dreaming us like that, with the conscious part of the mind trying desperately to parse some of it into meaningful narrative threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fuseli\u2019s infamous classic, The Nightmare<\/em>, 1781.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Amongst the tsunami of weird stuff there were pleasant bits – banks of daisies in twilight meadows (the source of that easy enough to discern; something I saw last night whilst out delivering*) – but I didn\u2019t see anyone driving a car in reverse at breakneck speed, over massive potholes, eventually causing their vehicle (a steampunk altered Robin reliant type affair, with rear view periscope doodad!) to cartwheel through the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the darker threads revolves around finding oneself trapped in an imminent demise you can\u2019t prevent scenario. And the feeling of unavoidable impending doom was what caused me to wake myself up. Why allow my own mind to inflict such a horror story in itself? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dad has said, very often (and esp\u2019 so in recent years), that he\u2019s disturbed a lot by nightmares. I\u2019ve had spells. But not recently. And that\u2019s despite real life circumstances that one would\u2019ve thought conducive to deep anxiety. Might there be a genetic hereditary component? Or perhaps this just overspill from all my recent psychic trauma?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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