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Hi Dave. Thanks for your take on dreams and the definitions you provided. I speak from my own experience as I'm sure you are doing as well. It would be good to have more feed-back on this subject.
Sometime in 1976 I wrote an exhaustive study on dreams that was published in Macrobiotics Today. I used to have a copy but let someone "borrow" it and hence it is gone on to another life.
There was some good and pertinent information in the article and discussed how and why ancient people were living their dreams and didn't need to create them while in slumberland.
As a child I used to have nightmares and sexual fantasies when slept. After becomming macrobiotic I noticed over the years that my dreams (at night) began to diminish, then stop -- or at least my recall of them stopped. Different foods and different quntities of food have a profound effect on dreams. Kushi outlines these in one of his books.
I remember as a teen when I experimented with various types of drugs, especially opium that my dreams became vivid, colorful and animated. Also after taking anesthetic for surgery I had strange but vivid dreams, that didn't make much sense. From these I other experiences I know that what goes into (at least) my body does alter my thinking and dreaming or non-dreaming ability.
I also believe that dreams can be passed down from parents, in a similar way other traqits are passed down. I recall a week-long series of dreams of me saving a woman who was being raped by an assailant under a bush. I couldn't understand this dream and told my mother about because it bothered me so much. Later that day my mother came to me and told me that she had been raped by a soldier when she lived on an Army base in Texas in the 1040's. Instinctively I knew it was her (in my dreams) all along and that I was trying to save her (sic). After this revelation I began to understand a strange fact about my own self and the fact that I had been dating women who had also been raped in the past!
No need to apoplogize for not coming to the camp two years ago. I forgot to bring the miso that weekend and we had to eat sea vegetable soup without it. Too err is to be human.
If we get anymore dream-related messages we may have to move this whole string over to the forum designated for this type of discussion as it is more philosophical in nature than this health forum was set up for.
How big are your dreams? If your dream is to only cross the road then life must be boring. WHat Ohsawa, Kushi and Aihara are talking about when they "dream" it is more in the context of "purpose". Our dreams should be so large than they can not be realized in a lifetime. This make life exciting, no?
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