Dream Interpretations

Which translation was correct, insightful, and/or accurate?

  • Translation A

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • Translation B

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • Total voters
    3
ExMinister said:
Now that Julia Finley doesn't like this thread anymore, let me just say those may have been some decent Jungian-style dream interpretations, but I question how useful that type of interpretation can be.

I have over 30 dream interpretation books on my shelves, collected over a long period of time, and after all these years the only dream book that makes sense to me now is Gillian Holloway's The Complete Dream Book. (Skip the last chapter where she gets into woo, the rest of it is pretty good) It's practical and full of common sense, which is why I like it, though I don't agree with all of what she says either.
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Have you got Your Dreams, What They Mean and How to Understand Them No author, privately printed sometime in the mid 1800's?

I had it many years ago and was surprised that something written before Jung would share so much of his symbolism. I've considered buying another copy to see if memory matches fact but haven't quite worked up reason to do so.
 
Even though I was skeptical of this Julia person's claims as well as of her apparent agenda here, I'm sorry she didn't want to hang around. There's aspects of my own dreams that I would have been interested in hearing her views on.

I won't bore you with the details of my dreams (and believe me, you'd be bored), but two things I find interesting about my own dreams is that I only very rarely have nightmares. Melancholy dreams? Sure. Sad dreams? all the time, but very rarely frightening dreams.

I'm also a little bemused and irritated by how gullible I am in my dreams in that I have never (as far as I can remember) realized that I am dreaming, not matter how nonsensical or surreal the dreams have been. I wonder if there as ever been any correlations made between extreme credulousness while dreaming and extreme credulousness in the real world?
 
JohnG said:
Even though I was skeptical of this Julia person's claims as well as of her apparent agenda here, I'm sorry she didn't want to hang around.
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Do we know she's not hanging around? She posted on more than one occasion after her farewell address.

Ward
 
She'll probably pop up on another forum elsewhere trying to drum up business. It seems to be her M.O.

Although, I am honestly curious as to why she came here. Was it the lure of the money? Another woo courting skeptical favor/disdain? Complete and utter clueless-ness? It is baffling.
 
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I knew a guy who used to use that technique to pick up women at bars. It worked just enough times to make him persist.
 
bookitty said:
Have you got Your Dreams, What They Mean and How to Understand Them No author, privately printed sometime in the mid 1800's?

I had it many years ago and was surprised that something written before Jung would share so much of his symbolism. I've considered buying another copy to see if memory matches fact but haven't quite worked up reason to do so.
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No, I don't have that one. Sounds interesting.

JohnG said:
Even though I was skeptical of this Julia person's claims as well as of her apparent agenda here, I'm sorry she didn't want to hang around. There's aspects of my own dreams that I would have been interested in hearing her views on.

I won't bore you with the details of my dreams (and believe me, you'd be bored), but two things I find interesting about my own dreams is that I only very rarely have nightmares. Melancholy dreams? Sure. Sad dreams? all the time, but very rarely frightening dreams.

I'm also a little bemused and irritated by how gullible I am in my dreams in that I have never (as far as I can remember) realized that I am dreaming, not matter how nonsensical or surreal the dreams have been. I wonder if there as ever been any correlations made between extreme credulousness while dreaming and extreme credulousness in the real world?
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IIRC, MRI research has been done that shows the frontal lobes to be fairly inactive during dreaming sleep; hence, our overall lack of good judgment while we dream. I have no idea where I read that, though.
 
Here's my dream that I made a special effort to remember as I woke up this morning.

I was walking around my apartment complex. (I haven't lived in an apartment complex for ten years). I climbed the stairs and in my apartment, my mother was there. She was changing the cat litter and the way she was changing it was by throwing the box over the balcony rail. I said, "Mom, you can't throw cat litter over the rail".

"Of course I can," she said, "That's how we did it when I was a little girl."

"But Mom, the neighbors aren't going to like it when they find kitty turds on their porch." (Yes, the words were 'kitty turds'.)

So I got a dustpan and went downstairs to clean it up, but when I got downstairs, the whole apartment complex was filled with tanks. Russian tanks. The reason I know they were Russian was because a number of them had their heads outside their tanks and they were drinking vodka and taunting us in Russian.

So I called my brother who worked for the National Oceanic and Atsmospheric Administration. (He doesn't really). He made a few phone calls and in a few minutes there were bombers overhead who were dropping... erm... water balloons. Great big water balloons. They were bursting everywhere. Pretty soon the courtyard of the apartment complex was filled with water. The Russians didn't seem to mind because lots of girls in bikinis were coming out into the water. Pretty soon we were all sitting on the tanks and singing and drinking vodka together. I warned them to watch out for floating kitty turds.

And that's when I woke up.
 
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Phooey. Do I not get an interpretation now? Even though someone behind me in line got one?

Was it because I said I already had a good idea what the various bits meant, or because it was too common and boring?
 
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