Monday, January 18, 2010

dream team

i read somewhere that you can only have dreams about things you know. (this is what i read in a list of "facts" about dreams: In our dreams, we only see faces that we already know. Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.)

therefore anyone who is in your dream who you've apparently never seen in real life actually is someone you've seen in real life. your mind picked up their image even if you were unaware of it. i don't really see how this is true. why wouldn't our brains be able to create a person from scratch that we've never met or seen (consciously or unconsciously) before? artists can create people out of their imaginations and create them as an image on canvas. why couldn't we do the same in dreams. i've also seen a lot of creatures, monsters, rooms, places, things, etc. in my dreams that do not exist in real life.

just a thought.

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