Watch dreams unmasked... and early snow
in connection with Aasa's foggy experiences, yesterday night i read up some bits about dreams, hypnagogic states, and also false awakenings. reading about the latter, i remembered my famous Recurrent Watch Dream of years ago... a really weird one.
i used to wear a watch in those days, and put it by my bedside at night. whenever i awoke i first reached for the watch, to see what time it was. it always lay in the same place, and the numbers and hands on it were shiny enough to be read in the semi-dark - so, on the whole, the process was very easy to reproduce for a remotely intelligent unconscious.
my unconscious did exactly that. on mornings when i had to rise early, it would have me dream that i woke up, consulted the watch and found i still had two or three hours to sleep. so, when i had to rise at 7:00, maybe at 6:30 i thought i woke up and it was 4:45... and i'd sleep all the sounder for that last half hour.
so far, so nice. but one such morning i woke up twice and looked at the watch each time. the first time it was 5:15, the second time it was 4:30! then for the first time i knew that maybe i sometimes only dreamt that i looked at my watch - in fact, at most one of those times could have been correct - and i really had no clue how late it was. i got up in the middle of the night, looked at all the clocks i could find, and was really damn disoriented.
soon after that, the Watch Dream (angry at being recognized as fake) recurred as a nightmare. i had to get up at 7, and i dreamt i woke up and it was 8:30! it wasn't, of course, but i sure jumped out of bed!
from that time on, the Watch Dream knew i'd never believe him again, and stayed out of my life. i subsequently changed my attitude towards time in general, and stopped wearing that watch.
oh, and after reading about all that dream stuff last night, i had a dream that really convinced me i was awake. i thought i had spent the day at the university (hardly likely, on a sunday in the holidays), sat in a café for a while drinking tea, and went home, crossing the campus. as i walked, it began to snow. very fine, almost invisible snowflakes, and most of them melted at once... but the ground did get white, and i left a track of bare feet in fresh wet snow.
i knew no one would believe me if i told them, so i took out my camera (i happened to be carrying one) and took a few pictures of the snowy courtyard and the footprints. then, still in the dream, i walked home and went to sleep.
when i awoke this morning, i remembered all that and had quite some job convincing myself it couldn't have been true. i'm convinced now. but then, that film isn't developed yet. maybe there ARE some snowy pics on it...
i used to wear a watch in those days, and put it by my bedside at night. whenever i awoke i first reached for the watch, to see what time it was. it always lay in the same place, and the numbers and hands on it were shiny enough to be read in the semi-dark - so, on the whole, the process was very easy to reproduce for a remotely intelligent unconscious.
my unconscious did exactly that. on mornings when i had to rise early, it would have me dream that i woke up, consulted the watch and found i still had two or three hours to sleep. so, when i had to rise at 7:00, maybe at 6:30 i thought i woke up and it was 4:45... and i'd sleep all the sounder for that last half hour.
so far, so nice. but one such morning i woke up twice and looked at the watch each time. the first time it was 5:15, the second time it was 4:30! then for the first time i knew that maybe i sometimes only dreamt that i looked at my watch - in fact, at most one of those times could have been correct - and i really had no clue how late it was. i got up in the middle of the night, looked at all the clocks i could find, and was really damn disoriented.
soon after that, the Watch Dream (angry at being recognized as fake) recurred as a nightmare. i had to get up at 7, and i dreamt i woke up and it was 8:30! it wasn't, of course, but i sure jumped out of bed!
from that time on, the Watch Dream knew i'd never believe him again, and stayed out of my life. i subsequently changed my attitude towards time in general, and stopped wearing that watch.
oh, and after reading about all that dream stuff last night, i had a dream that really convinced me i was awake. i thought i had spent the day at the university (hardly likely, on a sunday in the holidays), sat in a café for a while drinking tea, and went home, crossing the campus. as i walked, it began to snow. very fine, almost invisible snowflakes, and most of them melted at once... but the ground did get white, and i left a track of bare feet in fresh wet snow.
i knew no one would believe me if i told them, so i took out my camera (i happened to be carrying one) and took a few pictures of the snowy courtyard and the footprints. then, still in the dream, i walked home and went to sleep.
when i awoke this morning, i remembered all that and had quite some job convincing myself it couldn't have been true. i'm convinced now. but then, that film isn't developed yet. maybe there ARE some snowy pics on it...
posted by caru | 11:45 AM
3 Comments:
That is some mystery! You have to tell me if there are any pictures with snow on them!!
I never heard someone having a dream like that when times goes backwards.
In the film Waking Life there is a theory that life is a dream. Remember when you look on the clock and it's 6.45 and you think 'oh great, I can sleep for 15 minutes'and in that time you will have big dreams and then the alarm clock goes off at 7.00 it feels like have slept for hours in the meantime.
it's really very hard to tell how long a dream lasts. you can't take your watch with you when you go dreaming.
or at least, if you do have a watch in your dream, it will be a dream watch and show any time your subconscious wants. it wouldn't be reliable.
and why are we so sure that waking watches are any better?
Hahah
AWESOME!
you have a great imagination, I think thtsa part of it
Us playful pople have low borders to the subconcious
Very facinating
And who knows
Maybe there is more to it that we know?
:)
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