Posted by boB on April 24, 2000, at 2:16:59
In reply to Re: sleep hitting (Scott), posted by Scott L. Schofield on April 23, 2000, at 13:01:27
i post some goofey messages under this psuedonym, but this one is real
I had an experience with this sleep hitting thing that was quite disturbing. But if you look up a book called Chemistry of Conscious States, the well-informed neuroscientist author confesses to some very similar experiences.
Before i briefly relate my experience, I should confide that the basic human mode of thought is confabulation. We are animals who make up our world view out of the little that we actually know. Even moment to moment visual perception is 2 percent perception and 98 percent confabulation based on our short-term recollection of what we most recently saw when we directed our gaze to that location. (Trust me - i am a highly reliable anonymous contributor to an easily accesible internet board. They wouldn't let me post this if it were not 100 percent scientifically proven fact!!!)
When i was married, long ago, before my wife realized that i was not a fit parent and that her in-laws would make the down payment and co-sign for a house if she would dump me and bring home my children for them to relive their failed child-reariing experience by buying things for my children, we lived under the same roof, and shared a bed.
One night, I was home asleep and she came home from somewhere. Well, I was dreaming that someone was burglarizing OUR house. I got up to confront the burglar, who turned out to be her. Well, that is what i learned when I woke myself up by making an agressive martial shout and preparing to strike.
What does this mean? Hell if I know! I tend to think there were subconscious drives and realizations at work. The way they played out was illogical and Carl Jung and any other therapists efforts to explain them would be based on their own sense of authority and not their complete understanding of who I am. At least not unless they want to spent about 10 very intimate and very honest years admitting the reality and truth of the motivations that shape my life. Best advice I can offer is to get twin beds, and do your marital stuff some other way. That or get really, really honest with each other about your inner motivations.
"Yeh, Right!"
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