Island dreaming

[Upsetter]

webb said:

moonbeam said:

Not my idea of paradise, I'm afraid. Too much work involved. ;D

Very true, Moonbeam. That’s why I can never understand these back to basics types who would have us believe that all modern innovations are the work of the devil and that we should all go back to some imagined age of simplicity.

What on earth are we doing here then?

[Crusoe]

What could be more modern and innovative than an island in cyberspace?

[Crusoe]

upsetter said:

I'm serious, the man who collects the logs and makes the fire is the main man - the Big Boss Man.

So, you want to be Big Boss Man, eh, Upsetter? A very cool aspiration.

[Nurse Duckett]

moonbeam said:

It depends on when you wake up in the sleep cycle. I suppose if you're troubled by the dream, it might cause you to wake at the same point and so perpetuate the idea that you are being troubled by the same dream over and over. Something may happen in your life that breaks the cycle, you sleep soundly, forget the dream and then attribute cause and effect.

I don't think they mean anything, as such. It's random thought.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, moonbeam, but I'd have thought the driving dream of mine which plagued me for years was a manifestation of stress and/or anxiety?

Sleep soundly? I never sleep for longer than two hours. Wake up, do something (it matters not, what) then go back to bed. Two hours later, wake up again. This happens whereever I am. Even with a sleeping pill I'll only get four hours max. I cannot remember the last time I slept all night through, if that means 7-8 hours interrupted. Part of this problem is, however, the goddammed doves which start shouting at 0430 exactly throughout the summer.

A friend of mine had a terrible accident and shattered her kneecap. When I visisted her in the nursing home where she'd chosen to recover (this friend being in her late 70s) I said "how d'you get out of bed in the night with that whacking great plaster on". She said: I sleep all night long. I goggled at her. I thought oldsters slept even less than youngsters.

[Crusoe]

nurseduckett said:

I'd have thought the driving dream of mine which plagued me for years was a manifestation of stress and/or anxiety?

Were you stressed and anxious, at the time? If so, perhaps it was. Although I’m not sure if anyone really knows what makes dreams the way they are. The one thing that is more or less guaranteed is that they’re invariably very weird.