This is kind of a surreal experience---Salvador Dali would be proud! Writing about the closing of these blogs, something which we've been doing since August of last year, is bitter-sweet in a way. Look, those of you who know me will probably say that he's REALLY lost it now while reading this, but wait: The blogs have been fun--not that they weren't before (Prof. Tougaw knows I'm just kidding!) whenever we've just sat down and written what was on our minds with respect to what we thought the supposed rationales were behind our dreams.
We should all be proud in a way. I mean look at tlike this: We've ALL come up with a TON of convoluted shit! Some of us took these things back to our childhoods. Others, have reflected upon failed relationships and dead relatives, just to name a few popular topics. We've also tried to tie some theory up into this dream-a-thonic bitch (please excuse the misogynistic metaphor). In the end it all came to down to this...(Please excuse me for this, but I know that I'm sounding more like John by the word---HOLY SHIT!!)---we are all trying to come to grips with certain aspects of our selves, deep within our unconscious psyches, regardless of whether we realize this or not. Our waking lives serve to spur us on with respect to coming up with more things to dream about. Repressed thought plays into this, and sometimes they don't--sorry Siggy!! (that's what they called him in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure")
I'll leave you cats out there with this last tidbit before signing off for the semester: Dreams are a smorgasbord of desire, regret, overactive minds repeating things for no particular reason--at least that we know of, and memory consolidation (to use a scientific word and pacify my scientifc side). If we get nothing else from our experiences documenting our dreams, we can at least realize that we are all going to look back at this and realize that dreams are truly the only aspects of oursleves that transcend the bounds of reality. Sometimes "escaping" from ourselves into ourselves is necessary in order for us to come to grips with who we all really are.
OK had enough? See the YOUTUBE CLIP BELOW for more of what I mean with respect to our friend Siggy...lol. Bill & Ted fans you better not blink (pay attention to the 0:24 second mark) !!
To quote Bugs Bunny!! That's all folks!!
Comments (10)
Notice that the corn dog in Freud's hand is a phallic symbol!!! How appropriate for someone who found sex to be the ultimate root cause of our delusions, psyches, & dreams!
Posted by Optimus2g | May 21, 2007 7:14 PM
Posted on May 21, 2007 19:14
I've been reading about dreams in other cultures and mythology, and some of them consider dreams a product of our hidden self. Not exactly the repressed sexual wish like Freud would have us believe, but just... a "darker self", which your words about certain aspects of our selves brought to my mind.
I wonder what it means that I dream of killing things/people pretty often, and I always tend to remember the tail end but not the whole situation.
I've had a lot of fun doing the blogs, and while they were certainly a lot of work, I think I might actually miss posting here. Well, maybe *laughs*
Posted by AK | May 23, 2007 10:19 PM
Posted on May 23, 2007 22:19
I'm gonna ask your permission to quote your closing tidbits one day. That was a great summation. Oh, and by the way, the Bill and Ted movie rocks! Party Time! Excellent!
Posted by mR. mXyLpLyX | May 25, 2007 2:07 AM
Posted on May 25, 2007 02:07
I experience deja vu all the time. I experience deja vu all the time. You too? Ha! No seriously I do, especially when I'm writing my blogs down for some reason. I always feel like I've said or read the things I'm saying in them before, and I don't know why. Maybe I have! My brain is funny like that, because I have a bad memory (probably from the enourmous amount of drinking I did in my wilder days--I mean further back than last week!). I'm sure this is not your problem, but I just thought I'd share!
Posted by mR. mXyLpLyX | May 25, 2007 2:12 AM
Posted on May 25, 2007 02:12
Oops! That last comment was supposed to go on your other last entry! Don't know what the hell I did! Just erase that!
Posted by mxylplyx | May 25, 2007 2:14 AM
Posted on May 25, 2007 02:14
Your comment about "escaping from ourselves into ourselves" is quite poignant. Perhaps that is the real function of dreams. Our daily lives can be quite mundane and routine, but dreams are hardly ever boring. They fascinate us, inspire us, and give our brain free rein to play.
And I love B+T's Excellent Adventure! Notice how Freud's hot dog on a stick droops after the women laugh at him!
Posted by Lily Briscoe | May 25, 2007 2:48 AM
Posted on May 25, 2007 02:48
LOL. I love the clip. Makes total sense, especially the corn dog!!
We do a lot of Freud bashing, but I still think some of his work is invaluable.
Posted by Mind's Torque Wrench | May 25, 2007 12:36 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 12:36
No prob there Mr. Mxylplx. You have my blessssssing to quote me all you want (lol). I will be at the party too, by the way. I'll be packin' heat too (water guns!!!) Oh well now: there goes my secret identity...lol
Posted by Optimus a.k.a. Marwan | May 26, 2007 2:08 AM
Posted on May 26, 2007 02:08
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is the greatest movie of all time.
Posted by John A. Dreams | May 26, 2007 7:46 AM
Posted on May 26, 2007 07:46
Yeah, I think I will actually miss the blogs too.
Posted by milquetoast | May 28, 2007 2:12 PM
Posted on May 28, 2007 14:12