Dream Journal/Notebook... Am I weird? O_o

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Nyeh. I've never really told anyone about this, or asked what they think of it, because I've been too scared people would find it weird or stupid, but.. I keep a notebook beside my bed, and when I have ANY kind of dream I write it down. I started doing this because my sister told me one day that a dream could hold a certain message, or mean something significant.. It really got me thinking, and so when I've had a dream and I write it down, I just read over it and try to.. figure it out =/ It's starting to get very weird, because almost every night I have this recurring dream where I'm in town, and there's nobody there except me and a friend I no longer have. They keep talking to me in it, but for some reason I'm hesitant to answer, but I really want to because they were really special to me, but I just stand there frozen and I'm sometimes nervous in the dream :S The friend eventually just looks at me in disappointment and shakes his head, before walking away. But I don't try to stop him. The thing that bugs me is that, how to I explain... Sometimes it feels like I'm dreaming, but at the same time aware of what's going on, like almost urging myself to talk to them in the dream. The point where my friend walks away is where I usually wake up suddenly and scream "TALK TO HIM!" or something =/ I guess after that LONG speech I have 2 questions; am I a weirdo for keeping a dream journal, and do you think there is significant meanings to the dreams you have XD?

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Nah, many people record their dreams in some sort way--writing being the most common. Although most of the time a lot of these activities are done for some search of psychological research, but I wouldn't mind writing down the dreams I can remember if I made it a habit. It sounds interesting.

Personally, I don't see much significance with my dreams. It's obvious that my dreams are limited to what I know and understand about the world around me, but a lot of them just don't make sense. Of course this isn't to say that they have 100% no meaning, just being the type of person I am, I don't believe they're important. I've never used my knowledge of my dreams to influence decisions I make, nor do I let certain dreams affect how I perceive many aspects of my lifestyle.

My personal opinion, I think dreams are an outlet of the brain, that lacks direction, reason and cohesiveness. This is because our brains continue to work while our innate human ability to structure and reason with our thoughts remain silent and inactive. Thus, our dreams are like currents that just run loose and intertwine with all of our experiences and reshape/reform them in limitless amount of ways. The final product is our dream(s)--which often switch from one scene to the next without us knowing when the switch happened, and these dreams for the most part, don't make a lot of sense or seem completely random. But these don't really mean anything profound.

 

I hate how everything you type always sounds good XD heh. Anyway, what you said in the quote above really stood out to me. Thinking about it, that's probably why I keep having this particular dream.

-I've had the experience of friendship with this particular person
-Sometimes I think to myself how much I miss them. It usually makes me sad thinking about our good times.

Maybe it's just my mind's way of trying to make me feel better in this form of a dream when I've been thinking about it? Like seeing them again, but in a dream =/? Gah. I dunno

 

Meh, it's something alot of people do, not me though... Anyway, about your dream... Normally when you have reoccuring dreams, your brain is trying to tell you something, most of the time it isn't as obvious as this. This dream is definitly telling you to talk to this friend again... Try calling them. Also, sometimes it helps to finish the dream witohut waking up screaming, soemtimes these dreams have deeps meanings. However, I don't think their is one to this, your brain is just telling you that you miss your friend and that you should call him or talk to him in some way.