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I'm feeling slightly better than yesterday! I'm a little nervous about how work will go today, but I just need to not push myself too hard and be aware of how I'm feeling. I have quite the packed weekend ahead of me; plenty of driving and some physical labor. I really want to be at full capacity for these things.
Blah blah blah.
Let's talk about dreams.
On the other hand, perhaps we should not talk about dreams. I just typed out a bunch of stuff about some of my recent dreams, deleted it, typed out some more stuff, deleted it, typed up some more stuff, and deleted that. I guess I'm not totally ready to share my dreams on a public blog. I'm extraordinarily private about my writing, and even more so about my dreams - especially the ones which cause me the most terror, sorrow, and joy. These are the most revealing dreams. These are the dreams which leave a lasting emotion within me - they are educational. I am meant to carry the answer I've received to a question I've been asking myself.
I just realized that I'm still talking about dreams. So we can still talk about dreams. I like this thought stream.
I'm a big believer that humans are mostly able to answer their own questions. We were made with agency of will, intelligence, and cognitive thought. We are natural problem-solvers. That said, we were also made with some "safety features," for the purpose of avoiding unpleasant feelings such as pain and fear. Some may consider these to be our primitive instincts for survival. These instincts largely operate at an unconscious level, and are automatic. Ironically, it takes awareness to realize that these instincts are even there, and even more awareness to understand what triggers them. The next step is deciding whether or not they are necessary, and if they are found to be unnecessary, subverting them. Ideally this would open up a whole world of opportunity for yourself. Being in tune with yourself, the world, and other humans is a gift, but removing the safety feature (i.e. the filter) also means being open to all of the inevitable suffering that exists. Honestly, both ignorance and knowledge lead to pain. That's just being human. Thank you, original sin.
What does this have to do with questions and answers in dreams?
Modern adult decision-making has less to do with simplistic survival and more often than not involves conscious choices aligning ourselves with moral and ethical implications. In other words, in this day and age, everything means something. EVERYTHING MEANS SOMETHING. Everything you do is a decision that says something about your beliefs and/or morality center.
Again, get back to thing about dreams?
Deep down inside, we KNOW what is right and what is wrong. WE KNOW. This is usually buried under the noise and clutter of comfortable modern living and the consequential atrophied decision-making (marketing in mainstream media saturates everything and tells us how to live and prioritize - it's a current that will take us down the entire river of life if we let it). That said, we also know what we want and do not want deep down, but our innate filters and safety features will prevent us from consciously realizing the truth. Truth is pain. It's uncomfortable. Asking yourself questions does nothing if you don't truly wish to know the answer.
Enter the realm of dreaming.
There are many schools of thought on dreams. I myself have multiple theories and beliefs about dreams which involve both spirituality and science. Scientifically, it is generally agreed that dreaming is essentially neurological garbage disposal. It's your brain taking out the trash. On the psychological side, dream analysts will purport that all dreams follow basic thematic elements, and these all have different meanings, from which you can glean knowledge about your current situation. I believe both of these things. What happens when you clean out piles of clutter? You find things - things you may not even have realized were there or even existed. It is the same with your brain. Cleaning offers discovery. One of the safety features of the human brain (which can cause insanity when coupled with intense denial and trauma, but that can be expounded upon in a separate blog post) is that when there is unprecedented essence and it doesn't quite know how to categorize it, the problem-solver sometimes jumps in to help. The problem-solver translates this essence into known precedents so as to be familiar and comfortable.
I attempt to digress.
Your brain's trash man wants to help. Honesty goes a long way in helping him to help you. The more honest you can be with yourself and others, the more honest your brain can be with you, and the easier it is to figure things out in life.
Thoughts?