Lily Briscoe

At first I was pretty apprehensive about posting my dreams online for all to see. My Mom and I talk about our dreams all the time, but other than that, I don’t discuss them. As I was getting ready to write my first blog entry, I worried that posting my often turbulent dream experiences would expose me as some sort of a psychotic nut job. Thankfully, by studying various theories and approaches to dreams and reading others’ blogs, I feel more comfortable recounting them. Prior to this class, I would probably have agreed with the Freudian view about how all dreams have a meaning. But now I see the dream as a multi-faceted state; not all dreams have some deeper significance to me anymore. I don’t have to judge my life based on a dream evaluation. It's also made me appreciate the workings of the brain. I probably won't continue to blog my dreams, but I'm definitely going to keep a dream journal by my bedside. I think it will be amusing (and perhaps illuminating) to reread these entries after five or ten years. Well, it's getting late, so I'm gonna get some shut-eye. See you in my dreams!