On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:58:12 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>> I have a very vivid recollection of being attacked in a dream (when I
>> was a kid) by a stuffed "plush" alligator.
>> 
>> But until fairly recently, I haven't slept well enough (I guess) to be
>> able to remember my dreams.
> 
> I always *prefer* not remembering my dreams. The ones I remember are so
> upsetting. Still, usually I don't remember a thing. Unless I get woken
> up during a dream...
> 
> (The dreams I do remember typically involve me being chased, beated,
> burned, drowned, cut, poisoned, burried alive, frozen to death, starved,
> and other such niceties. Or sometimes just being followed around by
> weird creatures. Yah, *totally* better not to remember!)

I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the 
place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis 
situations.  I forget where I read that, but the article had a fair 
amount of detail about how they studied it and tied it into people who go 
into "automatic mode" when a crisis hits - like non-trained first 
responders at the scene of an automobile accident.  They typically 
describe feeling like they're on autopilot and not even really thinking 
about what they're doing - almost like they're watching from the 
sidelines.

> By the way... do you ever get that thing where the alarm clock wakes you
> up in the normal, but you're not really awake yet, and you just think
> about random crap for a while? Like, "hey, I should go encrypt that
> sandwich I made once at school, otherwise it'll go mouldy", and other
> nonesense. Or is that just me?

I do that every once in a while, sometimes I even say the weird sentences 
out loud - so my wife tells me.

Jim

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