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most of my dreams are weird random ish but still I put total stock in the relevance of dreams. I got the idea for my thesis from a dream (the paper that ended up shifting the course of my eventual vanilla career in a wicked direction), I got the idea for my most ambitious (and lucrative) adult work from a dream.
A slightly creepy but still apt example; eons ago I started talking to a guy but way early on something was putting me off about him...I couldn't pinpoint it but I started having dreams about him chasing me, hurting me, killing me. Really intense, more nightmares than dreams. What was really odd was that I kept seeing expressions on his face IRL that I saw in my dreams, even though he was nothing but funny and kind to me at the time.
I broke it off cuz the dissonance concerned me, and several years later I started seeing his name and face in the papers when he was arrested and convicted of killing his girlfriend. He also evidently had a few prior domestic assault convictions.
Dreams are badass, and I think anyone who actually takes the time to think about them upon waking has the opportunity to have a better life than they would otherwise. Dreams are like exploring ideas and realities without heuristics, pre-conceived notions or social norms; the essence of free thinking.
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