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xXRadicalDreamerXx
Registered User
(2/12/06 7:42 pm)
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Dreams
Most of the time dreams are supposed to be telling people messages but is there any othere reason why they may be there? If you know any other reason please post.
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aka Greensleeves
Registered User
(2/13/06 3:50 pm)
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Re: Dreams
You may be interested in this article from Science News, which outlines current scientific theories regarding dreams.
On a note more pertinent to folkloric themes, the authors make the following note:
Evidence from contemporary hunter-gatherers indicates that dreaming functions in a variety of ways, argues psychologist Harry T. Hunt of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Members of these groups generally view dreams as real events in which a person's soul carries out activities while the person sleeps.
This idea was explored vividly by contemporary author Guy Gavriel Kay in his series, The Fionavar Tapestry.
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(2/14/06 10:08 am)
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Re: Dreams
It also depends as to whether you're referring to dreams IN A STORY or reality. In a story they can be used to prophecy the future, to reveal the past or to reveal something about the present that the dreamer may not be totally aware of. Then there's those dreams that are used as the foundation and setting of the story.
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Richard Parks
Registered User
(2/14/06 10:27 am)
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Re: Dreams
Both Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft used dreams in their fiction to represent a separate reality, though the idea is much older.
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princessterribel
Registered User
(2/14/06 12:51 pm)
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freud
In reality my dreams haven't really told me anything truely worthwhile...I just see them as bits of jumbled up memories both long and short term that have coemt o the forefront of your mind. You might want to read freud...I don't know if there is anything specifically on dreams and folklore...but he does write a paper on the sand man. :)
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(2/15/06 9:47 am)
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Re: misc
Freud on dreams is The Interpretation of Dreams.
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innocent444
Unregistered User
(2/16/06 3:36 pm)
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dreams
well some dreams, strictly speaking, are more of visits. Some fairy tales have characters visiting another in dream. I cant remember which tale that was
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(2/16/06 8:41 pm)
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THE DISCARDED IMAGE
In Lewis's THE DISCARDED IMAGE, about the medieval and classical world-views, he explains their views of dreams. There was one type iirc that was a visit with a message, and other types.
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