Why are dreams so strange?

[Marthe48]

I dreamt that someone was going to make a movie about the Green Giant. I was in the town where they were going to film the movie. Then whoever was going to film it changed their mind. I saw the actor who was going to play the Green Giant standing on the corner of the main intersection. He was about 30 feet tall and looked pretty glum. He was wearing green scrubs and he was missing a shoe and a sock.

I like to interpret the imagery of my dreams, but I admit defeat.

[soothsayer]

1. First, your dreams sound awesome. Second,

You’ve triggered the jolly green giant alarm

Other than that bit of fun:

Green scrubs/missing shoe/sock: virus keeping people out of work, impacting earning? Even those ideally suited for a job?

[Marthe48]

3. I thought it might be about an immense social problem

I added it to my dream log. The details stuck with me even after waking

I remember the song from when I was about 10. lol Or should I say, HO HO HO? ha ha ha

[SheltieLover]

2. Dreams speak in the language of the collective unconscious.

Here is a god article on interpretations using active imagination.

Ask yourself what the green giant represents to you.

On edit: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/transcending-the-past/201610/understand-your-dreams-using-jungs-active-imagination

[Marthe48]

4. Do you have a link?

I always thought the Green Giant was friendly and generous, a positive figure.

[SheltieLover]

10. Sorry. Here is link

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/transcending-the-past/201610/understand-your-dreams-using-jungs-active-imagination

Carl Gustav Jung wrote a lot about dreams, symbology, & interpretation. Fascinating!

I've added link to previous post.

[Marthe48]

11. Thank you!

I'll look at the link. After a dream like that, I must

[SheltieLover]

13. Your unconscious is trying to get your attention

And succeeding!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Most of the time, when I remember them, I can...

... associate the imagery and events to recent events or recent thoughts in my awake world, mixed together in random ways.

Sometimes, however, they're too bizarre and "creative" to ever figure them out in that way.

Edit: If the sleep analysis from my Fitbit is accurate, I only remember dreams if I awake during REM sleep. Most of the time, I awake from a "light sleep" stage.

[jaysunb]

6. My dreams in my old age always seem to involve

Dead friends and family members trying to get me to go somewhere with them.
I always decline or wake up before I go, but one particular old lover has almost got me to go. 😁

[Marthe48]

15. I think I have more on the other side

if I didn't dream about them, I'd have no social life.

[walkingman]

7. You found some "window pane" and the recent pandemic issues triggered the dream.

[Midnight Writer]

8. That poor actor probably has problems being cast. Sounds like he has limited range.

Too bad his dancing career didn't pan out.

[abqtommy]

9. Back in the mid 1970s I was involved in a mental health outpatient program and one

of the recommendations for us was to record our dreams every night. About the same time
a report came out that it was found that dreams are the result of random brain activity so
I latched onto that to avoid waking up at night to record my dreams. I still subscribe to
that.

[Marthe48]

14. If I remember the details, I'll write in my log

while I'm drinking coffee. I like writing, and thought if I kept a dream log, it would keep my creative writing skills sharp. I try to be as detailed as possible and use the right word to describe the dream. I don't think I dream right after I go to sleep, seems like the dreams happen closer to morning.

[abqtommy]

18. I finally did start recording the dreams I was having a few years back. Most of these

dreams occur during my morning nap. Some of them sure are strange.

[SheltieLover]

12. A great way to increase dream recall

Is to put a tablet & pen or pencil near bed & record tgen when you awaken, visually & verbally.

Remember our ebergy flows to where our attention is focused.

[Harker]

16. Are there sufficient quantities of frozen peas in your freezer? n/t

Perhaps you're unconsciously concerned about the sufficiency of the medical response to the pandemic?

[NNadir]

19. I believe the dream is precognizant.

It means that at some point in the future, you will eat corn kernels that have come from a can.

You think I'm kidding of course, but when it happens, remember your dream foretold this outcome.

[Marthe48]

20. Yes, I can see that

His bare foot. Corns! lol

[left-of-center2012]

21. I have some pretty crazy dreams

Maybe it's my age or the medications I'm on.

The part that I do like is that when I dream I have to find a bathroom I wake up and realize I need to go to take a leak.

In my dreams I have visited a wide variety of bathrooms in a wide variety of places all over the world.

I hope they always cause me to wake up.

[Marthe48]

22. So far, my body wakes me

But I have a lot of dreams about bathrooms. Maybe it is our age