I forgot to make a post last week, and nearly forgot this week too! But here's this week's question -- and I had to burn through about five cards to find one worth typing...
Would you rather lose your ability to dream but never have nightmares again or have colorful lucid dreams regularly but also the occasional terrible nightmare?
This might be a "grass is greener" situation for me, but I already have occasional lucid dreams, though I lack the ability to control them like some people can. But mixed in with those lucid dreams are terrible nightmares that typically are less scary than emotionally scarring. I've given the details of some of those to friends, and they're so disturbing to myself that I'm not going to detail them here.
To answer the question, I know from experience that having a nightmare drains my energy; typically I get up from a nightmare and feel like I hadn't slept at all, which is a serious problem if I'm having to go to work that day. While lucid dreams are fun, that's all they are; a good dream doesn't balance with a nightmare, in that a good dream doesn't give me extra energy to balance a nightmare's sapping of it. In other words, for me, dreaming is a lose-only proposition, so what's the point of risking it? In this case, if I have to take the bad with the mediocre, I'd rather take nothing at all, so I choose the red answer and would rather never dream at all.
Hell, for me, sleeping is an inconvenience anyway. So if I don't dream, then I'd lose total track of that time, and I'd only be concerned with recharging my energy rather than what fiction I have playing in my head for eight hours or less per night.
3 comments:
Dream is something beyond my control and since I can't control it, it's going to be a luck of the draw for me. If I put my hand inside a bag of mixed candy and take some out without looking, I'm likely to get some I like and some I don't. But I'd definitely choose to try for some I like. Based on that thinking, I'd rather have good and bad dreams than nothing at all because the good ones, at the very least give me moments of joy. Even though the bad ones can give me sorrow, I'd rather have joy and sorrow than nothing at all.
I rarely remember my dreams, so it would be nice to have a lucid dreams all the time; it's a good practice area to try things I'd like to do in real life. After all, if you're into zen, the visualization actually improves your skill :) I think the more spiritually mature choice would be red, but I have to go with blue anyway.
When I dream, I have colorful lucid dreams. Occasionally I have terrible nightmares. It doesn't bother me. :P
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