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Dreams are one of the most fascinating mechanisms of the human mind. I understand the feeling of exposure, as they might well be revelation of the subconscious

Dreams are one of the most fascinating mechanisms of the human mind. I understand the feeling of exposure, as they might well be revelation of the subconscious and unconscious mind that bypass your awake self-imposed limits and shames. For that very reason, though, your wife is doing something quite intimate when sharing them with you.

solardev 3y ago
Why is this any more fascinating than nails growing or some hairs falling out or eyeballs moving around during sleep? Body does body things all the time. Sometimes I have incoherent thoughts while I sleep. So what? Sometimes I have them when I'm drunk or really tired or whatever too. Even when fully awake and conscious, most people (myself included) don't have the most exciting thoughts, certainly not enough to monologue about. I don't get this mysticism around sleep and dreaming. Everyone does it, and it's not particularly magical. Or intimate, for that matter. Friends share details of their dreams way too often, and I wish they wouldn't... 99% of the time it just sounds like the mind "metabolizing", I don't need to know what happened, much less sit down with some silly book to randomly assign meanings and weights to every minute of it. It's like some people believe the dreams are a portal to a higher consciousness. But frankly they just sound like noise.
- alexvoda 3y ago
  I agree with your 3rd and 4th paragraph. However, I argue that that your first sentence frames things poorly. Nails growing, hairs falling, the body doing body things is fascinating. Are dreams exceptional compared to other behaviours of the body? No. Are they fascinating? Yes. Are many people disproportionately obsessed with them? Also yes.
  - solardev 3y ago
    I guess we're all fascinated by different things... to me they're not very different than your stomach growling in the middle of the night. But you know, to each their own! I'm sure there's millions of folks who think the things I find fascinating are really boring.

solardev 3y ago

Why is this any more fascinating than nails growing or some hairs falling out or eyeballs moving around during sleep? Body does body things all the time. Sometimes I have incoherent thoughts while I sleep. So what? Sometimes I have them when I'm drunk or really tired or whatever too. Even when fully awake and conscious, most people (myself included) don't have the most exciting thoughts, certainly not enough to monologue about. I don't get this mysticism around sleep and dreaming. Everyone does it, and it's not particularly magical. Or intimate, for that matter. Friends share details of their dreams way too often, and I wish they wouldn't... 99% of the time it just sounds like the mind "metabolizing", I don't need to know what happened, much less sit down with some silly book to randomly assign meanings and weights to every minute of it. It's like some people believe the dreams are a portal to a higher consciousness. But frankly they just sound like noise.

alexvoda 3y ago
I agree with your 3rd and 4th paragraph. However, I argue that that your first sentence frames things poorly. Nails growing, hairs falling, the body doing body things is fascinating. Are dreams exceptional compared to other behaviours of the body? No. Are they fascinating? Yes. Are many people disproportionately obsessed with them? Also yes.
- solardev 3y ago
  I guess we're all fascinated by different things... to me they're not very different than your stomach growling in the middle of the night. But you know, to each their own! I'm sure there's millions of folks who think the things I find fascinating are really boring.