Dream Time

[Michael McMahon]

A romantic or friendly way to interpret lucid dreaming is that the reason we’re not attracted to lots of acquaintances might not be because we don’t like them but that we’re ungrateful to lots of personality traits that contradict our own virtues. So lucid dreaming could incite themes such as determinism that relate to hard-working foreign cultures like Japan which might make Japan impact on our own worldview a small bit more.

 

[Michael McMahon]

One explanation of lucid dreaming while camping is as a defence against squatters’ rights such that you don’t take credit away from God for having created your perception of the nighttime environment. Another possibility of the increased propensity for lucid dreaming while camping is as a way to increase your vigilance against criminals when homeless for many days.

 

[Michael McMahon]

Even if you viewed sleep as a waste of time then the extortion of sleep would still serve as good anger control. Each dream no matter how silly would serve as a diversion to get you back into a neutral mood after a bad day. Under this interpretation dreaming would be like a form of emotional time travel rather than thoughtful time travel. Yesterday I got angry with my father for ignoring me in a park. So last night’s dreams were particularly random. I was trying to park a motorbike only to decide to bring it to a restaurant and leave it beside myself and my mother’s dining table. In a later dream I booked a hotel room with my father only to find an entirely white marble interior as if a mere dream of wealth can calm you down!

 

[Michael McMahon]

An athlete could define their sleep as physical time travel, a contemplative could view their sleep as perceptual time travel while an extrovert could interpret their sleep as social time travel!

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’d an embarrassing dream a few days ago of being at a strip club and refusing to be promiscuous by insisting that I’d only sleep with a prostitute if she’d marry me!

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’d an auditory hypnogogic hallucination shortly after falling asleep in which a relative of mine was speaking to me in a really gentle voice. For the sake of discretion I won’t mention distinct aspects of their voice to reveal who it resembled. Yet I knew I was the only person in my accommodation such that the relative’s voice was immediately identified as a hallucination. By contrast a stranger’s voice might have taken longer to identify as being fake. I started praying to escape the dream. Yet the relative warned me that people were in the room to attack me. I saw a false glimpse of the room I was sleeping in before awakening. Perhaps the dream was a reminder not to judge people as being friendly simply because they act in a friendly way. After all anyone who speaks in a relaxed French or Indian accent could appear loving only if they were interpreted as being the only individuals to have such an accent. The lucid dream was open-ended in whether my relative was sincere in warning me of an attack or whether it was the relative who’d incited others to attack me. This indicates that the relative’s soft demeanour could be redemptive depending on the other features of the individual.

 

[Michael McMahon]

As I awoke in the (this - as per date on subtitle!) morning I’d a non-lucid and non-vivid dream in which I was at the grind’s school I attended at age 17. I went to the cafeteria in the school and the waiter said that they’d to tell me upfront the cost of the milk because their data had been leaked. This might have referred to people sometimes over-estimating the value of supposedly sensitive data being hacked online when the victims might have been slightly negligent in typing the information down in the first place. For example there was a Russian mafia involved in hacking the Irish Health Service’s patient data a few years ago from multiple hospitals when perhaps the information shouldn’t have been centralised where each hospital would have independent internet stores. In another dream around dawn I was driving down a slippery hill that was so slippy that I’d to struggle to press the break and change gears. This might have been a working backwards mechanism in which the car’s high speed was essentially automated where it was up to me to slow down around bends. That is to say I never had to manually speed up the car after each time I slowed down.

 

[Michael McMahon]

Lucid dreaming might serve as a shamanic defence of nerds against athletes! In today's dream diary I was in my bedroom except that my aunt's files were all around me. She has over a hundred folders of working documents on her clients as part of her solicitor's practice in real life. So juxtaposing this work ethic with my house might of helped me appreciate how hard work over decades can spiral upwards with older people.

 

[Michael McMahon]

Managers are sometimes blunt to their subordinates as a reflection of authority. Likewise the unconscious mind can be rude to the conscious mind with possessive dreams in order to assert supremacy over the conscious mind. It’s as if your unconscious mind is the creator of your conscious mind rather than vice versa. A theistic re-interpretation would be that God created your unconscious mind that in turn created your conscious mind rather than God directly creating your conscious mind. So your unconscious mind would be your immediate creator so to speak. Perhaps to lucid dream you’ve to be very deferential to your unconscious mind. This morning’s dream had me getting a lift in a car with someone driving down the elevator to a shopping centre. I left the shopping centre somehow and had to climb up a spiral staircase with a ladder at the top to return to the shopping centre. The ladder was exposed from the ground to the entire height of the stairway and I was deeply nervous looking at it. Perhaps the dream was a safety note that a spiral staircase is much like a ladder.

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’d a dream in which I was walking through an aquarium only to find the water emptying much like a goldfish tank. Yet when the water was refilled a torrent of water was emitted from a shark’s mouth much like the surface plume of water from a whale blow. Perhaps it was reminder that sharks cannot be very self-aware when they’re preoccupied by physical necessities like respiration.

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos about steep mountain snowboarding and skiing from top professionals and was in awe at their skill level. Yet last night I’d a dream where I got a jet ski far out into the ocean and only then did I get off to surf. The jet ski would function much like a chair lift! So much like snowboarding or skiing off the Alps there’s also no limit to any other sport that relies on nature. There was a large group of us to look out for one another and we somehow managed to find a sandspit to stand far off the mainland.

 

[Michael McMahon]

The idea that mental time travel during sleep is too far-fetched can be disproven by the ease of a flipbook:

GROW flipbook (Joe’s Stuff)

 

[Michael McMahon]

If I were to feel internal anger towards my parents over past arguments for example then this can ironically serve as a working backwards mechanism to tell me how angry I should have been at other societal issues. So if someone is rude to you and you overreact then why you don’t you proportionately get more angry at social injustices and international poverty?

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’d a dream on the night of Friday the first of September that we were saying the Holy Mary prayer during communion to stop anyone thinking that the bread would be embodied by God! Catholics aren’t obligated to agree that the bread during communion contained the spirit of God. After all atheists are allowed attend mass! This negates the idea that Protestants and Catholics need to be antithetical to one another on the basis of rituals. The unconscious has spoken!

 

[Michael McMahon]

This morning there was a dream in which I was a train driver going off the rails on level ground in a housing estate and trying to look for a shop to buy milk. Such a drugged-out dream might have been a parody of a bus I got yesterday which took so many stops in the suburbs to create a 2 hour journey of what should have been a 30 minute drive. I knew it was going to be a windy bus when I got on it but decided I’d meditate on the top floor of the double-decker bus. Perhaps the dream indicates that Shannon town with so many bus stops was more in need of a tram service.

 

[Michael McMahon]

Lucid dreaming might make sense to a scientist if you were trying to be ethical in the context of a symbolically evil country. This doesn’t mean that your country is evil but only that it might not be very charitable to other countries in a way that might defy religious norms. So lucid dreaming could help you identify evil people because they’d resemble you in a lucid dream when you’re far more extreme in your focus. Sometimes assassins can assume a ghostly vibe. So maybe my two lucid dreams of the uncanny valley years ago might relate to me having agreed with the concept of militias such that I could appear evil to other people unless I proved to them that I was a lesser evil! Who knows if everyone had agreed with militias then the country could resemble the deterministic vibe of the uncanny valley where everyone would be ethical to rebel against each other. For example evil can be hedonistic along materialistic lines such that appearing more materialistic than others could be a result of a fascination of materialistic systems or of a descent into evil. Evil can be ambiguous when people can be defensive rather than aggressive. As such any inference of evil based on an intense mindset is inherently indirect and holistic rather than being accusatory.

 

[Michael McMahon]

It might be that beards can help you form a more intense mindset for lucid dreaming. A beard exaggerates your facial size to symbolise a mind more extreme than the physicality on display. Beards would relate to symbolic evil in any form of potential sexual perversion in terms of intentionality but not behaviour. Beards might appear to be a relic of a macho ancient history but have a flip side in allowing men with feminine qualities to be somehow reconciled to a violent appearance. This creates a complicated spectrum of androgyny that could relate to the spirituality of lucid dreaming.

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’d a dream Thursday night in which I was playing soccer in a meadow and saw a rat shaped creature running away in the distance only to realise as it turned and ran towards me that it was the size of a small bipedal dinosaur. Perhaps the dream emphasised why the creepiness of rats might never be resoluble when it relates to an alternative evolution of ancestral species.

 

[Michael McMahon]

In last night’s dream I was queuing up in a wheelchair as if to mock my desire to sit down so often. If the universe were truly determined then every dream you’re going to have each night in the future has already been pre-set. So the irony is if dreaming was truly epiphenomenal then the brain wouldn’t even bother preplanning your dreams. Yet to have dreams spontaneously implies that the nature of dreams isn’t fully deterministic.

 

[Michael McMahon]

I’d a vague dream as a child of walking in a mansion’s foyer and another dream around a year ago of walking in the garden of mansion in a South American style hot climate. These dreams of wealth might be a deterrent to poor people contemplating evil because only rich people had the self-awareness to withstand the spirituality of evil. So poor people often lack the meditation to understand the consequences of evil on their own worldview. By contrast a rich person can work so hard to redeem themselves after perpetrating a criminal assault. So even if poor people can consciously withstand an evil mindset they might always be slightly volatile in their religious beliefs. This means that pantheism and shamanism aren’t in danger of becoming evil in the modern era when poor pantheists who convert to evil can’t compete against richer pantheists. Perhaps the downfall of Native Americans and African tribes against colonisers wasn’t just their lack of religious cohesion but also their lack of capitalism to limit poor people becoming megalomaniacal under evil. Perhaps ancient Native Americans blended colonialism against fellow tribes, communism among poor people in their own tribe combined with monarchy rule which all conspired to produce evil in poor people. An evil pantheist would inherently be overwhelmed by a conversion to evil by having to empathise fully with all of the victims of their evil and continuing regardless with evil.