Dream Theory

I was in a high school class or maybe college. The walls were bare and the lighting fluorescent. The teacher was saying that we had two weeks to study before finals and I was excited by this. I thought to myself - man if I study really hard for two weeks I can totally ace all of these finals. Which is interesting because in real life I never put much effort into studying for tests and so usually did poorly.

The tests were going to be on everything : Economics, Poetry, Calculus, Pottery, History, Music, Astrology, Chess, etc.

The teacher than handed out the take home worksheet. It turned out to just be a gigantic burger patty; the size of a plate. I stacked it on top of my books. Then three beautiful women walked into the class room. They were not only beautiful but also intelligent, clever and kind - I knew this in the way one simply knows certain things in dreams. They all said hi to me and were being flirtatious even though class was still in session. Then the bell to go home rang and I woke up.

The dream is interesting because in my Academic days I was never optimistic about tests as I was in the dream, and also I wasn't the center of attention for lots of beautiful ladies.

I woke up, took a shower, and as I was thinking about the dream in the shower realized it was merely the tip of the iceberg for a much longer dream that came before it, one which I cannot recall.

I had a long dream, only fleeting details come back to me now - red carpets, an elevator, the stars, galaxies, time, reincarnation, Little Nemo cartoons, waiters, standing on a precipice above the universe, watching the world or time be projected as if from a giant film projector, everything in the dream seeming deep and mysterious - such as if God was the film being projected then perhaps I was the projectionist running the film. And so on.

I conclude it is the last dream of the night we re-call most easily. That depending on which stage of the sleep cycle we are in there are deep dreams and shallow dreams. That deep dreams have an epic scale to them- like a movie or a novel. Also they are usually harder to remember because they must be carried to the surface of awakening from a greater depth of the subconscious. That shallow dreams come after deep dreams. That they have more a quality of a snapshot or a short story. The scene in them does not change and fluctuations or changes in character have more the dramatic value of a punchline in a joke or a question in a riddle , they are koans not on-going sagas. Yet we must assume that any shallow dream, positioned after a longer epic dream is likely to hold a key to the pattern of understanding the lager dream. It can act as a sort of lens.