I haven't had any dreams about the world at large recently, but I have been known to have those sometimes. Usually whenever I do there's some tsunami involved. I live by a coastal city so that's always a regional risk. Haven't had one of those in awhile, touch wood. Dreams related to totalitarianism involved a dream about a trip to a grocery store with black-clad enforcers and cage checkpoints at the exit like something in Occupied Palestine, but that was back in late 2020.
More recently I've been having vivid dark man dreams, but they often tend to be a lot more personal with themes of integration.
About a month ago I dreamt the house I grew up in was getting burlarized. The doors were all open and a team of bandits were literally just walking off with things and loading them into a moving van. I fought a lot of them off, even throwing one of them at another and brandishing a big kitchen knife at one point.
A few weeks ago I dreamt I was on a university campus in some kind of sexual pursuit but quickly got pursued myself by some Antifa-types that looked like they were straight out of Portland, OR. I didn't really fight them but they were trying to trash my car and I needed to bait and lure them away from the vehicle in order to get free.
This weekend I had another pursuit dream, where I was being chased in a wooded suburb in a coastal fishing/tourist town by some unidentified greyish thugs. I easily outrun the vast majority and left them in the dust, but one kept on my heels. Eventually I turned on him in a blind spot of his and ambushed him, giving him a good thrashing in the process. While doing this I noticed he was really handsome, and I relented because of how struck I was. The pursuit continued on in a half-hearted sort of way, and it felt more playful and flirtatious in nature, and like I was directing the chase to somewhere more private.
I looked on dreammoods.com and it said that pursuit/dark man dreams can mean you're resisting acknowledging another viewpoint, while erotic dreams can refer to the integration and merging of contrasting aspects of oneself. And I think this progression from the former to the latter in my dreams is reflected in my waking life. Lately, in spite of atrocious sleep four nights in a row I've personally been feeling really good and very calm lately, much better than I've ever felt the past few months. Occasionally there are strong negative emotions a couple times a week but each wave feels smaller and less like a complete meltdown than the last.
It feels a bit unusual to feel really calm while other people are experiencing more distress, but I had a rough start to the year emotionally speaking so I wonder if that's part of some kind of balancing process...
Some people have said they experience dreams about catastrophes and also older friends. Over the past week my (admittedly sleep-deprived) thoughts have gone to thinking about old friends of mine, people I'm no longer really in touch with. My conscious thoughts have also drifted to Donbass with a sense of unease about the re-escalation there, as well as the "cyberpandemic" meme. Still, strong sense of calm just the same.
More recently I've been having vivid dark man dreams, but they often tend to be a lot more personal with themes of integration.
About a month ago I dreamt the house I grew up in was getting burlarized. The doors were all open and a team of bandits were literally just walking off with things and loading them into a moving van. I fought a lot of them off, even throwing one of them at another and brandishing a big kitchen knife at one point.
A few weeks ago I dreamt I was on a university campus in some kind of sexual pursuit but quickly got pursued myself by some Antifa-types that looked like they were straight out of Portland, OR. I didn't really fight them but they were trying to trash my car and I needed to bait and lure them away from the vehicle in order to get free.
This weekend I had another pursuit dream, where I was being chased in a wooded suburb in a coastal fishing/tourist town by some unidentified greyish thugs. I easily outrun the vast majority and left them in the dust, but one kept on my heels. Eventually I turned on him in a blind spot of his and ambushed him, giving him a good thrashing in the process. While doing this I noticed he was really handsome, and I relented because of how struck I was. The pursuit continued on in a half-hearted sort of way, and it felt more playful and flirtatious in nature, and like I was directing the chase to somewhere more private.
I looked on dreammoods.com and it said that pursuit/dark man dreams can mean you're resisting acknowledging another viewpoint, while erotic dreams can refer to the integration and merging of contrasting aspects of oneself. And I think this progression from the former to the latter in my dreams is reflected in my waking life. Lately, in spite of atrocious sleep four nights in a row I've personally been feeling really good and very calm lately, much better than I've ever felt the past few months. Occasionally there are strong negative emotions a couple times a week but each wave feels smaller and less like a complete meltdown than the last.
It feels a bit unusual to feel really calm while other people are experiencing more distress, but I had a rough start to the year emotionally speaking so I wonder if that's part of some kind of balancing process...
Some people have said they experience dreams about catastrophes and also older friends. Over the past week my (admittedly sleep-deprived) thoughts have gone to thinking about old friends of mine, people I'm no longer really in touch with. My conscious thoughts have also drifted to Donbass with a sense of unease about the re-escalation there, as well as the "cyberpandemic" meme. Still, strong sense of calm just the same.