“The Interpretation of Dreams is the Royal Road to Knowledge of the Unconscious Activities of the Mind.”

As said by Freud.

After I originally posted about my recent intensely horrible dream, I talked and thought about it more and realized essentially what made it so horrible aside from the content. The mere fact that I DID NOT know I was dreaming. I am pretty much always aware that I am dreaming all of my dreams. This is definitely the most intense instance and possibly one of the verrrry few [if any others at all] that I was completely unaware. Every aspect of the dream made sense to me, the reasons my room looked different, the reasons I was tired, the reason I was at home instead of where I really was sleeping.

Now I have more of a glimpse as to why dreams freak people out so much. I, personally, am obviously utterly fascinated by dreams just as I am peoples' minds. The emotions felt in a dream always stick with me and take time to wear off although I'm still aware they are not real.

I have always told people why I sympathize with people from certain horror/thriller films. I feel, that the scariest thing in the world is to see things that no one else can see and that you can do nothing about it. Films where a person is attacked by others that no one can see...Freddy Krueger is a good example off the top of my head. As I write this I just now made a further connection. That I said "no one can see"...that's exactly what kept happening to me and I felt I was going crazy and I was at total loss and despair and I couldn't and didn't know what to do with myself.

Nonetheless, the powers of the mind are absolutely prodigious.