I have crazy dreams. I’m not sure if something’s wrong with me, but a recurring theme in my dreams involves my role as a junior military officer whose army is caught in an epic struggle against aliens. Not necessarily against the aliens from the Alien movie series, or E.T., or Close Encounters… just whatever are the aliens-du-jour. Isn’t that crazy?
Granted I watch a lot of sci-fi and war-type movies… and that combined with being a former military officer probably embeds battle-laden dream seeds into my psyche. About a third of the time my weapons don’t work properly and about two-thirds of the time I’m terribly outnumbered. Sometimes the aliens I encounter are familiar, as from a popular video-game. Other times my enemies are human-ish.
For example, last night (after watching several episodes of Grey’s Anatomy) I dreamed that I was in some type of advanced sci-fi medical exchange program where I had to travel to this interstellar university for medical classes… and my classmates were characters from Grey’s Anatomy. Anyways… it wasn’t long before the Empire (yes, the one from Star Wars) attacked with Stormtroopers and heavy vehicles. For some reason most of the battle took place in the woods… not the forest of the Endor moon, but rather something more like Little House on the Prairie.
I'm a Christ-follower, compelled by my faith toward reason, which points directly toward conservatism. This world's daily onslaught of lunacy offends my intellect and senses, so this is my venue to blow off steam.
Likely, these dreams are prophetic.
Yup, if you can remember your dreams, you can easily track what emotion created the theme of that part of the dream. Malfunctioning weapons must be a familiar theme, because here we are, mostly still, and “damn it”, we can’t get something to work because we aren’t physically mobile to match our dream’s intentions.
My dreams are emotional, too, but not of your ilk; they have no drama. I can’t seem to get where I want to go, and are extremely monotonous, but I endure it.
If you want more boring dreams like mine, try a nice glass of boiled milk and no exciting TV before bed. Are you enticed yet?
“For example, last night (after watching several episodes of Grey’s Anatomy) I dreamed that I was in some type of advanced sci-fi medical exchange program where I had to travel to this interstellar university for medical classes”
Weirdest thing ever – I had a similar dream last night after watching some re-runs of Grey’s anatomy… Bizarre !!!
I find the television shows I watch and the books I read somehow become part of my dreams. Sometimes I am in the situation like a character in a book or movie and other times, the stories seem to jumble together in one mish mosh of a confused dream that doesn’t seem to make any sense. I think the emotions become part of our dreams and make us recall certain visuals we consciously saw during the day.