Well, lets see. I'm a big believer in the theory that everyone you meet in your dreams is some facet of yourself and everything that happens is a reflection or metaphor for a challenge you are facing.
Add to that, this sounds like a "lucid dream" so you were getting that mix of subconscious and conscious thought going and there is actually some cool stuff going on.
One of the things that makes being a graphic designer a good career choice for me (even though I don't really have the temperament for it) is that I take in all the little bits of information that come at me from the outside world, and organize them in little labeled boxes in my brain. Now, on the downside of this, i can often reach conclusions prematurely, but generally, I intuit solutions and reasons far better than most people because I see so many little details. (of course, seeing so many sides of things does have down sides...I don't dare talk about politics since partisan politics are impossible for me since I take in and process both sides of things...I would get sent to a reeducation camp really fast if I ever opened my mouth...and I take in and process the lives of fictional characters as well as real people and problems, so movie drama is really hard on me....and when you see so many details, it is really hard to let go and feel like you haven't missed one...oh, wait, this is supposed to be about you....back to our regularly scheduled armchair analysis...) This all fits together for me beneath the surface and I get the information automatically (usually in the shower or while driving) kind of like those old air tube systems that department stores used to send stuff back and forth in.
You on the other hand are a rational, engineer type, so you trust information that you have compiled in the conscious world. (do you know your myers briggs scores? Just curious.) so while you are apparently processing under the surface similar to what I do (look at the way you -knew- that server change over was going to get screwed up) your subconscious gave you a very straight forward conversation (complete with whiskey to get you loosened up) to deliver a piece of information that it had intuited since just "having a feeling" with no action items attached to it wouldn't have gotten as much attention. (My subconscious would have given me an equally real feeling dream, but done the whole thing in elaborate metaphor. My subconscious is such a drama queen.)
Either that or your dead grandfather was talking to you. That is actually the cooler explanation.
So, have you sent your sister an "I'm glad your my sister" card, just so that when the crisis hits, it gets steered towards someone who already has their catchers mitt on?
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Date: 2005-08-25 07:45 pm (UTC)Add to that, this sounds like a "lucid dream" so you were getting that mix of subconscious and conscious thought going and there is actually some cool stuff going on.
One of the things that makes being a graphic designer a good career choice for me (even though I don't really have the temperament for it) is that I take in all the little bits of information that come at me from the outside world, and organize them in little labeled boxes in my brain. Now, on the downside of this, i can often reach conclusions prematurely, but generally, I intuit solutions and reasons far better than most people because I see so many little details. (of course, seeing so many sides of things does have down sides...I don't dare talk about politics since partisan politics are impossible for me since I take in and process both sides of things...I would get sent to a reeducation camp really fast if I ever opened my mouth...and I take in and process the lives of fictional characters as well as real people and problems, so movie drama is really hard on me....and when you see so many details, it is really hard to let go and feel like you haven't missed one...oh, wait, this is supposed to be about you....back to our regularly scheduled armchair analysis...) This all fits together for me beneath the surface and I get the information automatically (usually in the shower or while driving) kind of like those old air tube systems that department stores used to send stuff back and forth in.
You on the other hand are a rational, engineer type, so you trust information that you have compiled in the conscious world. (do you know your myers briggs scores? Just curious.) so while you are apparently processing under the surface similar to what I do (look at the way you -knew- that server change over was going to get screwed up) your subconscious gave you a very straight forward conversation (complete with whiskey to get you loosened up) to deliver a piece of information that it had intuited since just "having a feeling" with no action items attached to it wouldn't have gotten as much attention. (My subconscious would have given me an equally real feeling dream, but done the whole thing in elaborate metaphor. My subconscious is such a drama queen.)
Either that or your dead grandfather was talking to you. That is actually the cooler explanation.
So, have you sent your sister an "I'm glad your my sister" card, just so that when the crisis hits, it gets steered towards someone who already has their catchers mitt on?