Notes on Dreaming

I believe that dreams are the original religion. They have much to teach us beyond Freudian insights. Personal insights are the bottommost layer of the dreaming world.

Only in an irreal world can one learn about reality — the principles of organisation that defines what a reality can be. Only in a meaningless world can one learn what meaning can be — a network of interconnected units of the nonsensical. Only in a world of secrets can one see what is obvious.

Children are told, “It was only a dream,” as if to convince them, by dint of repetition, of the irrelevance of dreaming. Imagine if children were tugged away every time they seemed to be responding to spoken language. They would grow up mute. The would hear spoken language the way we hear bird song — as irrelevant noises. If one does not acquire the ability to speak in childhood, it can never be acquired thereafter. In order to deny their handicap, they would, as adults, insist on the mutism of others.

Because that is a real possibility, we must ask ourselves if that is, in fact, not what has happened.

This blog contains notes about dreaming, written by a person who was raised to be dream-mute, but who now recognises the importance of dreaming.