Comments on: How much do our dreams influence the way we think?

By: patientzero

patientzero — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:17:22 +0000

Interesting question! Just last night I had a dream about coming to fisticuffs with a coworker. It began to dawn on me today how she has been trying to sabotage me. (My boss, whom I am becoming close with, is her best friend). Never noticed before! So – I’m guessing even (or especially?) if I hadn’t remembered the dream, I’d still be afflicted by the attitude.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:47:23 +0000

Dreams can be strange.
As a kid I had a dream of a space shuttle exploding on take off a week or so before the Challenger disaster.
But I had just read Arthur C. Clarkes 2010 which describes just such an incident.
But I found it spooky at the time.
And a few years ago I was completely stumped on a bug at work.
I had spent about a week or so on it and was getting nowhere fast.
I had a dream about a solution. It was so obvious in the dream that this MUST be the solution that I woke early and went to work early to test it out.
Of course it wasn't the actual solution.
But the line of reasoning did at least open up new avenues that lead to the correct solution.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 05:39:08 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 May 2005 07:17:11 +0000

I woke myself up once having a conversation in my sleep with my partner at the time, also a network engineer about Cisco's and TCP/IP. He was also asleep. Not sure how coherent it was, but when things get too stuck in your brain, I find that it reflects over into sleep…sometimes finding a resolution your concious mind can't find.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 May 2005 20:13:54 +0000

I've had some spooky dreams in the past. Some years ago, a very close friend died from Hodgkinson's disease. It was a very painful and protracted death, complicated by doses of chemotherapy which withered him into a little wizened old man. It was horrible, unjust, unfair, cruel and I became very angry and bitter about it, until, one night, I dreamt that I met him.
“I thought you were dead”, I said.
“Naahh.” he said.
That was it. I awoke with all the anger and bitterness gone.
Of course, it came back a few years later, but that's a different story.