Chapter 72 Remember Dreams

Many friends complained to me that they could not sleep well at night, either haunted by horrible nightmares, or walked into surreal dream monsters; while they complained, they also talked about the scenes in their dreams with great interest, After finishing speaking, I always pursue a question: "What does this inexplicable dream indicate? What kind of subconscious does it represent?"Some showed happy smiles, as if saying: "Fortunately, it's just a nightmare." I can understand the mood of my friends very well, because I am also a dreamer.Although I don't like to dream, dreams belong to Monet. Once I close my eyes, it is like a flying elf, which gets in through a small gap in the soul and occupies our unknown eighth place. Hours of joy and sorrow.

Most of my friends are engaged in literary and artistic work. Their hearts are particularly sensitive, so they are especially prone to dreams. Many people know that I am a "dreamer" and always come to me to talk about their dreams.My favorite thing to do in my life is to listen to people's "nonsense dreams" talking about bizarre dreams. I often suggest that they turn these dreams into works for others to share. Some people create works that are completely different from those when they are awake, (maybe It must be another person in the dream!) Most people don’t want to, the reason is: dream is a part of privacy, it’s okay to tell friends about it, but it’s a bit embarrassing to make it public.

I am very good at dreaming. Sometimes I can do three or four in one night. These three or four are sometimes short films connected together, and sometimes a long film is cut into several sections. I still have very strange experiences. After going out for a morning jog, and returning home to sleep in the cage, the dream was able to continue. Once even after a few months, the dream could be connected together, like the first and second episodes of a movie. I like movies. I feel that dreaming is a bit like watching a movie. The difference from movies is that we can watch ourselves as the protagonist in the play, which is very interesting. So even if I have nightmares, I rarely feel scary.Naturally, the dreams are full of non-existent things, but not always; in some of the dreams I have had, I have dreamed of some completely strange places, with streets, people, flowers and plants, and even post offices and stations are all clearly visible. A month later, I went to other places for interviews, and found that the place was exactly the same as in my dream, and even the scenes performed at the local temple fair were the same as in my dream.

I feel chilling, but also interesting—can people foretell something in their dreams? Another time, I dreamed that I took a train and didn’t know where I was going. The train was not like ordinary trains, it was small, but it kept climbing up a steep mountain. The trees on both sides were very green, and the white clouds in the sky were white and strong. , as if to climb an endless mountain.More than a year later, when I went to Hong Kong for an interview, I found out that the Taiping Mountain was in my dream, and even the trains had the same style. But when I was dreaming, I never thought about Hong Kong, and I didn’t know Victoria Peak. The dream is really strange, and it may really overlap with our real life.Before I got married, I dreamed alone. After marriage, I realized that my wife is also a dreamer, sometimes even worse. We often tell each other about our dreams when we get up every day. will also be added

Analyze it.Because of this, strange things happened.When I woke up one day, my wife told me about her dream: We traveled to a strange place with two acquaintances. There was a prairie with many small yellow flowers blooming there.We also took a pair of our young children, the eldest daughter wore two braids, and the youngest son wore green shorts... I was stunned when my wife told me, because my dream that night was like this, even the appearance of the children It's all clear. Even the place where the dream stops is the same: we have eaten a Western breakfast in the hotel, and the dream stops abruptly when we hear our name being called by a friend.I don't know what power in the dark can make a couple have the same dream, and what meaning can the same dream tell?I don’t have any children yet, and the children in my dream are all about ten years old. I think it will be ten years before I can answer this question.

For a while, I had the habit of remembering my dreams. I wrote down my dreams in the notebook beside the bed every day when I woke up. Because the dreams flew by so fast, if I didn’t write them down, I would forget them the next day. I wrote " "Painting Dreams" three words.Later, because I was too busy with work and my life was not normal, I seldom remembered my dreams. The most regrettable thing is that those notebooks that have already remembered dreams, It was lost because of the frequent moving, otherwise a very good collection could be published.It's good to lose it, so as not to fall into the hands of psychoanalysts in the future. Although I believe that psychoanalysis is reasonable, I believe that the vastness of dreams is by no means what psychoanalysis can do.

Sometimes I am very envious of those dreamless people who can sleep until dawn, but I also sympathize with them, they have lived at least half of their lives. —October 30, 1981