there was another vivid dreammare like i've been having since the 24-36hr sleep cycle began. oddly, i'm remembering details about the latest not after just waking, but several hours afterward

i really can't offer much detail about this one publicly, except that i was dealing with two nation-states, members of my estranged family of origin, someone i've slept with in the last year, resistance weapons (including the tiniest revolver ever), a supermarket and some other elements which, as i write these, make absolutely no sense, but in the dream, it felt like i was preparing for an important escape from something really bad

@patience I get the feeling. Sometimes nothing seems to make sense when written but the sense is here as each element has a special context in a dream, that can be hard to translate well. But be at peace, I guess nothing as bad as what you were preparing for in your dream will happen. What's hard with such dreams is that it feels like they anchor in our future while in fact, they are anchored in our past.

@Morgane i suppose, and likewise i suppose it's how the brain files away long-term memories and disposes of short-term ones, but all the same the experience felt unfamiliar except for the people and the places in the dream's set piece

this anti-depressant, coupled with its side-effects of keeping me from falling to sleep at an expected time, has really brought to the surface a series of vivid, sometimes disturbing dreams. i hope they subside soon

@patience I hope too. I've always been able to get the "meaning" of dreams that simply, for me, lie in memories and current fears and hopes and so on. But the way everyting is re-arranged in the dream feels pretty random and... disturbing is the word. Hope soon you'll find peaceful sleep once again. Best wishes to you.