Blogcritics Comments on In Dreams

Comment by sadi ranson-polizzotti

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:25:12 EST

hey Steve and thanks --- i'm sure i'll be okay; just feelikng really lousy in the thick of it... more to come hopefully very soon . . . : )

Comment by Steve

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:29:43 EST

Sadi, sorry to hear you are suffering from those ailments right now, I do pray you recover soon. Looking forward to your next article, S.

Comment by Mike

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:47:27 EST

Yes, that makes sense to me. Fevers are known for triggering convulsions and hallucinations and vivid dreaming. I had pneumonia too a few years back, so I feel for you, not all nice, extremely high temperatures and an odd extra effect that migraine sufferers (myself included) have also noted, that during an attack a song or a snatch of music is constantly being recalled to mind at the same time one is suffering with the fever or the migraine. It might not be a song one has ever been particularly fond of but still one can't get that snatch out of one's mind... it's an odd effect. Have you had that effect? Get well soon.

Comment by sadi ranson-polizzotti

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:21:04 EST

Hey Mike - 1/2... hope that answers... Never hear of second quote but like it more than the first one i posted! thanks for sharing... yes, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but i still can't get away from the repativite nature of these dreams. Likely, i still have fever from pneumonia and that explains everything - that' my current theory... whaddya think - make sense (oh, pardon typos, grammatical errors - having trouble seeing today... illness...) tx. s.

Comment by Mike

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:00:27 EST

Sadi, bist du J�disch? The Yiddish saying you mention is a bit like a mirror of another one, "If you want your dreams to come true, wake up." Perchance to dream. Aye there's the rub...etc. Was it Freud who suppoosedly said, re symbols and dreams, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

Comment by sadi ranson-polizzotti

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:31:59 EST

hey Steve =- as usual, i tend to agree with everything you've said. The Book of White Magic only interests me in so far as it is so so so old and more of a fascination or an "object" than anything else... and besides, it's fun. Seriously, unless you really believe, i figue this is pretty safe stuff - i mean it is called white magic... and more, it's fun to look up dreams and so far, oddly , they've all made perfect sense and not in the sense that i've been overlaying a template on the dream to make it make sense, but just because it does.... which even i, a great cynic, have to admit, is pretty damn weird... apples? fruit? orchards? - helicpters? go figure.... and the united nations building all in one... it is rather odd, but strangely, all comes togeher, but in all honesty, i probably didn't need a book to tell me that... cheers - s. :)

Comment by Steve

Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:33:26 EST
Interesting article. I don't think most dreams necessarily have any real meanings frankly, though I've read some Christian books that suggest maybe as much as 10% do, and certainly, there are examples of dreams having some significance in the Bible, for example. However, though I have bought a book or two on the subject, I can't say I've found them to be all that helpful in interpreting my own dreams. I would be careful about anything calling itself white magic, you never know what you might be getting yourself into. I find that kind of occult stuff seems to have the goal of making you dependent on it, which I don't think is healthy. I just pray and ask God to reveal things I need to know, and help me ignore the things I don't, until/if I need them. Sometimes, ignorance really is bliss, ...and sometimes not so much lol.