http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 9 May 2003 14:11:28 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/08/214014.php#comment-9292 The premise of the book is ridiculous. Nobody can interpret your dream, other than you. That's one reason why therapists, especially Freudian psychiatrists, are so fond of them. You talk about the dream and the projections are totally, 100 percent, your own. Unless you're 100 percent trusting of the therapist, be careful what you reveal. Then again, one might take the Jungian viewpoint. As before, everything in the dream is the dreamer's own projection, but more so: say you dream of a cow on top of a burning barn, eating a hamburger -- you are the cow, you are the barn, you are the hamburger, you are the fire -- and you are the one watching on, probably yourself. What do these various elements mean to you? Together, you and the Jungian therapist figure it out. Finally, there are universal symbols: crosses, circles, snakes, death, and so on. These do have limited value but, in the end, it is the dreamer's own interpretation of the symbol that counts; that, and nothing more. If you want to learn something about the interpretation of dreams, read the psychology books. Skip the dream symbolism. 9292@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2003 14:11:28 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/08/214014.php#comment-9277 i had a dream once that i was watching a los angleles lakers game on the tube...and jerry garcia was playing for the lakers...not in uniform but in the usual genes and dark gray tshirt. this, being in a dream, made perfect sense. he even took a pass from magic johnson and slammed it. what the hell did that mean??! 9277@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2003 09:49:30 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/08/214014.php#comment-9275 sounds like i'll have to check this out. I don't always dream, but when i do, they tend to be freaky (but not in an obvious way) 9275@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2003 08:46:31 EDT