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Intolerable Dreaming

Posted by WDonway 9 years, 6 months ago to Science

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Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 6 months ago

Hello WDonway,
Very interesting. Sorry about your sleep problems. I hope you work them out.

I have noticed that as I get older and lose more friends and relatives from this world they return to me in my dreams. Very disconcerting. One theme that is of note is that my Father often returns to me and I am transported back to a time when I was young and he was a most stern and demanding taskmaster. Later in life, before he passed away, I had earned his respect and we shared mutual admiration. If my dreams reflected that period they would be welcomed... I probably owe much of my drive, perseverance and success to his manner during that earlier period, but when young it felt like oppression. I did not learn to appreciate him until I was an adult. He has been gone for a long time now, but...
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." source in question though often attributed to Mark Twain

There are others more distressing. If I kept pencil and paper at my bed I could probably write a script for a suspense thriller.

Your terrifying picture reminds me of this recent video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7SRYUN5...

Respectfully,
O.A.

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  Posted by WDonway 9 years, 6 months ago
  
  Thanks for the very on-target comment. My relationship with my own father combined inspiration, guidance, discipline, and some heavy duty emotional blow-ups and irrationality. As far as I can discern, my dreams involving my parents are rather mild, despite the indelible memories of confrontations. This may be because I have written extensively about my father; in fact, the title of my collection of short stories and personal essays is "Holidays Frightened My Father." In both of my sort of memoirs/histories, especially, "You're Probably from Holden, If...": Growing Up in A Changing New England, my father is everywhere along with some of the hundreds of photographs he took in the 1940's. My point, in addition to plugging my works, I guess, is that I have explored my feelings about my father in my writing, not once, but again and again, as I grew older.... And it has been said, and I believe, that by writing about something we can deal with it in a very final way: Okay, it's in the book. I told my side of the story. Now, let's move one. Thanks again for a fine insight...
  
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    Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 6 months ago
    
    You are very welcome, WDonway.
    
    I read quite a bit. I would encourage you to put your material for sale here in the marketplace. My reading list and pile of books is already substantial, but I would like to add yours to the stack. Listing here will make it too easy to find and be reminded of, for me to forget on my next book buying binge. :)
    
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
    
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      Posted by WDonway 9 years, 6 months ago
      
      Oh, I don't think I knew that there was a marketplace connected with the Gulch. A market! What a novel thought for an Objectivist site! Thanks for cluing me in to it. I will check it out.
      
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        Posted by sdesapio 9 years, 6 months ago
        
        Here ya go: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/marketpl...
        
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        Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago
        
        godshairyballs, walter
        
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        Posted by WDonway 9 years, 6 months ago
        
        Venus's well-furred snatch, Khalling, thank you for that.
        
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Posted by jbrenner 9 years, 6 months ago

Dreaming is a very interesting subject to ponder for Objectivists precisely because they are thoughts that we can partially, but not entirely, control. People of faith would suggest that some dreams can be divinely inspired. Of course, there is no proof for such a suggestion. I will say that there have been several times in my life when some of the best ideas I have come up with started during dreams I remember with unusual clarity and intentionally prolonged until I gained as much insight as I possibly could. I look forward to reading my friends' thoughts on the subject of dreaming.

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