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[absentmammoth]

last night i had a wonderful dream. nothing about it was particularly remarkable, in actuality, but having it definitely affected me in a way i can't really pinpoint. but i feel overall much better than i did upon going to sleep

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[madbibliomancer]

You're reading Kafka on the Shore? Excellent. How far in are you?

[absentmammoth]

it's the japanese published english translation, so the page numbers are different, but i'm on (unlucky) page 444, about 3/4th the way through, and nakata is sleeping after opening the entrance stone while kafka tamura heads for the cabin again.

[fee_b]

it is strange how dreams can affect your waking life. especially when I sleep for really long periods of time, they truly seem real, and are easy to integrate as such.

Glad you're feeling better. =)

[nessur]

Oh wow, I'm suddenly jealous that you're able to read Murakami in the original language. His writing style is already so hypnotic and engrossing, I can't imagine what a straight dose of him would do to me.

I've been sick for the past 2 days, and have devoured South of the Border, West of the Sun in that time. I find that most of his books unlock so many deeply rooted emotions in me, pieces of myself that I've forgotten along the way, that my dreams tend to become revelrous, magically during those book times.

[absentmammoth]

sadly, my skills are not yet good enough to fully read murakami in the original japanese. i'm reading an english translation still, it's simply the japanese publisher's english translated version rather than the american publisher. i probably could make a go at reading the original japanese (without stopping every minute to look up kanji) in something like 2 more years.

psychobabble

[puck22]

in some of the reading I've been doing, it suggests that dreams tend to fufill wishes, merely as a matter of funtionality. It's an a little antiquated to think of it this way, but every day chronic stress creates these little "cathexese" and one of the way Jung used to explain it (he always had a different explination for a different audiance) left me with the idea that your brain every night goes through and unties one of the cathexes or little mental knots, and if it's a knot that's been bothering you for a long time, it can be really gratifying. It doesn't neccessarely have anything to do with whats going on right now, or, at this point, anyting to do with reality at all. It just means, to put it is funny Brett Psudo-Science language, "A knot in your back, bubbled up to your head, and your dream rubbed it out."

Any way I've been thinking alot about stuff like that. Sorry if I sound crazy, or stupid, or way off topic.

Re: psychobabble

[absentmammoth]

no way man, it's good to hear from you. sorry i've missed your messages. thanks for the little thought knot ^_^