tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post2583286033332420078..comments2024-03-28T20:40:18.960-04:00Comments on The Misadventures of Widowhood: Can’t Stop Thinking About a DreamMisadventures of Widowhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-17655129284863592692020-03-17T15:20:04.113-04:002020-03-17T15:20:04.113-04:00The trick to remembering your dreams is to have a ...The trick to remembering your dreams is to have a paper and pen with a light built into next to the bed so the second you wake up you jot down whatever you remember. It will take weeks of doing this before you start getting more and more details to transfer over from your subconscious to your conscious mind. I don't have to do that anymore and all I have to do now is stay the details out loudMisadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-41084695121508213772020-03-17T14:02:41.157-04:002020-03-17T14:02:41.157-04:00I wish I could remember dreams. I rarely can. I kn...I wish I could remember dreams. I rarely can. I know I had one related to the virus the other day but I can't remember it. Just an overall impression. I don't know about dream interp. Maybe that's good or I'd overthink everything like I usually do anyway!<br /><br />On another note, thanks for your visits. Because I reply directly but don't have a contact info for you, I'mJeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17482528482559445943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-1514753791938795172020-03-13T11:10:39.865-04:002020-03-13T11:10:39.865-04:00All I remember about the 'knock on wood' p...All I remember about the 'knock on wood' phrase is it had to do with the Celts and their belief that spirits lived in trees. Knocking on wood gets harder and harder to these days with so much composition, metal and plastic stuff around.<br /><br />I pretty much agree with your UU minister on the value of dream interpretation and instinctively being able to figuring out their meanings.<br Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-18184941431600743982020-03-13T10:05:29.886-04:002020-03-13T10:05:29.886-04:00Dreams fascinate me. I have an old book from the ...Dreams fascinate me. I have an old book from the 70s on dream interpretation. It sometimes fits. But I took a workshop once by a UU minister who worked with people and their dreams and he was of the opinion that we all intuitively already know what our dreams mean...he encouraged finding our own meaning, no matter how strange. He was masterful at helping people interpret for themselves and donnajurenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799559087972759233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-91145265539952386402020-03-12T16:50:13.630-04:002020-03-12T16:50:13.630-04:00Gee, how did you just KNOW I have Macabre Dreams?!...Gee, how did you just KNOW I have Macabre Dreams?! Winks Bohemianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03743017084098726581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-37166799077163123592020-03-12T08:41:46.024-04:002020-03-12T08:41:46.024-04:00With your attraction to the macabre in decorating ...With your attraction to the macabre in decorating your dreams would be fun to try to figure out. Nothing standard in dream dictionaries would apply. LOLMisadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-64034408880550449732020-03-12T08:37:27.086-04:002020-03-12T08:37:27.086-04:00That's a firepit---rocks with an old grate on ...That's a firepit---rocks with an old grate on the top where we cooked. It was our camp site complete with an old Army surplus tent and a fence all the way around it that we made out of branches. We had that camp for years and even my nieces and nephew used it after my generation grew up.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-90597125762379120472020-03-12T01:03:09.611-04:002020-03-12T01:03:09.611-04:00I just glanced at the photo and assumed it was kid...I just glanced at the photo and assumed it was kids playing in a graveyard, which is always a fine setting for a dream. What IS that in the foreground??LS Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888269999839452459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-33792490589164629202020-03-12T01:00:47.924-04:002020-03-12T01:00:47.924-04:00I'm glad I don't recall Dreams hardly ever...I'm glad I don't recall Dreams hardly ever, the few I ever have recalled were so absurd that figuring out a Meaning would be interesting at best and Lord knows what analysis might imply?! *LOL* Bohemianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03743017084098726581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-50172906008936058562020-03-11T21:12:20.842-04:002020-03-11T21:12:20.842-04:00I've been playing with dream dictionaries for ...I've been playing with dream dictionaries for 40 years. I find my dreams entertaining but I don't take them too seriously.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-40809271582405869812020-03-11T20:27:02.950-04:002020-03-11T20:27:02.950-04:00I don’t know if I believe in a lot of what the dre...I don’t know if I believe in a lot of what the dream analysis books/websites have to say. Dreams are so personal and any symbols or themes will have different meanings for each person. It’s maybe a good starting point on digging down on the potential meaning but then I think it’s time to sit quietly and think about what your brain might be telling you through the dream, and using your intuition The Widow Badasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08671005744535263644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-32334792614890517302020-03-11T20:18:52.966-04:002020-03-11T20:18:52.966-04:00It sure does!It sure does!Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-61688641846810663392020-03-11T20:04:47.123-04:002020-03-11T20:04:47.123-04:00Doesn't it suck when you can't remember bi...Doesn't it suck when you can't remember bits of a dream and really want to fill in the bitsJo-Anne's Ramblingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11418152399382818709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-33668345898234619492020-03-11T15:38:20.188-04:002020-03-11T15:38:20.188-04:00Full moons effect my ability to get to sleep big t...Full moons effect my ability to get to sleep big time. If I see it coming I'll take a sleeping pill and even that doesn't help all that much. Time changes don't bother me at all. I don't get even deep sleep according to my Fitbit and I think that effects my enhanced ability to remember my dreams. <br /><br />That's funny that you are a Pollyanna even in your dreams. I think Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-21698182365590253252020-03-11T12:26:00.894-04:002020-03-11T12:26:00.894-04:00I rarely remember my dreams ... and they are alway...I rarely remember my dreams ... and they are always comforting and good. Sheesh, I'm even a Pollyanna in the dream department.<br /><br />Do the time changes influence your dreams? Full moons? The Awkward Widowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729456066739275695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-1526671071546236352020-03-11T11:05:53.096-04:002020-03-11T11:05:53.096-04:00The son-I-wish-I-had was here on Monday and he hug...The son-I-wish-I-had was here on Monday and he hugged me when he came in and I said, "We're still doing hugs during coronavirus season?" He's a Trump supporter so I really wasn't surprised that he thinks it's all hype. When this is all over---a year from now, they say---I wonder if we, as a nation, will get back to hugging again. It's sad. Fist and elbow bumps just Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-50543524773034366812020-03-11T10:50:07.628-04:002020-03-11T10:50:07.628-04:00Maybe it is all the caution we are getting daily a...Maybe it is all the caution we are getting daily about limiting human contact with fist and elbow bumps. The more hugs are banned, the more we will miss them. Maybe you were just going back into your past when it was safe to hug. I am going to a luncheon tomorrow and know all the hugs will be sidelined. I will miss them. Arkansas Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156004753267665579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-86860066684485295512020-03-11T09:53:14.341-04:002020-03-11T09:53:14.341-04:00That's a good comparison. Dreaming, from my un...That's a good comparison. Dreaming, from my understanding, comes from our brains trying to transfer our short term memories of what occurred that day to a different part of our brains where we store our long term memories and we do it during rem sleep. Our brains are like computers that drop bits of data off wherever it can find room thus the broken up stuff like dreaming of someone we hadn&#Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-11006686042024880882020-03-11T09:35:37.268-04:002020-03-11T09:35:37.268-04:00It's often as easy to accept dream analysis as...It's often as easy to accept dream analysis as it is horoscopes; many kernels of general truth can be found in each. There is a science to dreaming, however. I'm sure your brain is trying to figure something out in there!Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627214346956206283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-31636106300471444612020-03-11T09:19:50.731-04:002020-03-11T09:19:50.731-04:00I'm fascinated by the fact that someone took t...I'm fascinated by the fact that someone took the time to write that dictionary and how extensive it is. I used to keep a journal of all my dreams and what I thought they meant, got really good at remembering them by writing them down before I even got out of bed. But then my dad went into the early stages of dementia and couldn't tell his dreams for his daytime life and some of his dreamsMisadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-90207129842468645502020-03-11T09:08:39.441-04:002020-03-11T09:08:39.441-04:00Find-a-Grace doesn't work for someone who was ...Find-a-Grace doesn't work for someone who was cremated but it's sure helps with genealogy research. <br /><br />The more I think about it the more I know that's what Levi thinks. I can get him to run look out the window by just asking him if the kitty is out there. The darn old cat has been mousing in my back field for 5-6 years and quite the attitude.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-88221301978485932492020-03-11T09:00:33.965-04:002020-03-11T09:00:33.965-04:00I specifically total my nieces I don't care ab...I specifically total my nieces I don't care about them having a funeral for me but I do want them to put an obituary in the paper. I spent too much time doing genealogy research not to see the value in obituaries. Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-25850819793150993702020-03-11T08:56:29.688-04:002020-03-11T08:56:29.688-04:00I do missing being hugged and give them, but it wa...I do missing being hugged and give them, but it was not a comforting dream.Misadventures of Widowhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262709452281226620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-75418262038125408872020-03-11T07:13:24.727-04:002020-03-11T07:13:24.727-04:00I'm like you in that I'm not sure that I t...I'm like you in that I'm not sure that I totally believe in dream analysis, but I enjoy thinking about whether the analysis might be true. I figure that if something makes you feel more whole in your life, then it's a good thing for you to do.Ally Beanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17017098395188176477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990351249805345004.post-43601084996986528372020-03-11T07:01:59.451-04:002020-03-11T07:01:59.451-04:00I was intrigued by your mention that some are choo...I was intrigued by your mention that some are choosing not to put obits online. There have been a couple of times that I haven't been able to find one, and wondered about it, since I knew the person had died. Eventually, I discovered that Find-a-Grave often will provide at least the most basic information: i.e., date of death via a photo of a gravestone.<br /><br />We talked about different shoreacreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16284698314697628805noreply@blogger.com