@enhydra lutris like cracking the funny bone. Ain't nothing funny about it. Although the Satie-va melded into a jazz quartet, the hows and whys escape me. Could be the Al Goth Rythms, as you suggest. Hoping your waking dream includes a healthy factoring ahead.

would've gone wonderfully with some Satie-va, but I don't have any laying around at the moment. Don't recall my dreams, so I lack anything to report or analyze on that score.

Humor sounds wonderful. I've been somewhat seriously focused, since May, on health issues, a totally humorless pastime and mindset, which leaves me more than ready to appreciate but not all that likely to inject humor, (nor any of the humours, which aren't particularly funny anyway).

Zo, welcome and good morning. After playing, your you-tube dissolved into 4 subscreens, rainy jazz, night jazz times 2, and autumn jazz. Is this where you live, jazzland, or an artifact of some youtube algorithm of similar sounds? Since it is daytime, and not-rainy, I think I'll go visit autumn jazz and see what fall sounds like.

Have a great one.

@Lookout Thanks for that. I feel dreams mostly as an awareness just below the conscious, waking mind. The veil between is sometimes thin, with brief glimpses of the dreamed state sparking thru. Similar to the deja vu feeling. Have watched the dogs running (paws only) while sleeping. Makes me wonder.

Enjoy your day!

hecate has a story up about the american dream (among other things). Sometimes dreams are equated with goals and sometimes with illusions. They can be both. When we were building our place a fellow told me, "there's alot of work in a dream", and that is often true.

A slippery word "dream" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream

Hope all yours are good ones!

@HenryAWallace Sometimes I wish I could forget my dreams. But they can be useful. I used to have a recurring nightmare about being in a bad car wreck. I sold my car after about the fifth instance. Biked and walked until the dreams went away, about a year later.

Most often, I don't remember dreaming, much less remembering what I dreamt. I would claim that I rarely dream, except that experts say we all dream nightly. A psychiatrist told me that it's probably with good reason that I don't remember my dreams. I don't know why he said that.

@magiamma in their portraits. A surreal business fringed with phantasms. Thanks!

Thank you for dreaming of dreams...

My favorite artist ever worked from dreams...

Remedios Varo

Escaped to Mexico via Marseilles with a group of surrealists at the last minute. Went to the same school as Dali but graduated. Jewish. Died young. Best friends with Leonora Carrington.

@smiley7 There are so many songs attached to dreams...California dreaming, All I have to do is dream, Dream a little dream of me, Running down a dream, You make my dreams come true, Dream police, Dreams (Fleetwood Mac), Wildest dreams, Lucid dreams, Boulevard of broken dreams, Snow dream, Just a dream, Dreams and nightmares. enon

saying "Living the Dream" on my ski jacket.

Forget most dreams. Absolutely love the dreams which come in scenes, after you wake a little, you want to go back to sleep for act two and sometimes, it happens.

Dreaming in color has a significance i don't recall.

The other day, NPR did a piece on the importance of sleep. Learned it's important to get a good night's sleep after you take a flu shot which, according to them, improves the body's immunization by a great percentage.

Cheers for this OT and have a good one.

@Mark from Queens You really are a dreamer Mark! Used to keep a log for posterity by the bed. Now some of the more vivid ones tickle my memory banks. Floating just beneath the surface. Cheers!

about her oldest grandson.

My mother didn't tell me this until fairly recently and after she passed. She told me that she was either looking at a picture of me or watching me stand for a picture and said, "he's a dreamer."

My first inclination was fleeting but it was to be slightly offended. Now I wish I could tell her thanks.

Not only have I always been a dreamer but I have this weird propensity to dream every single night, vividly, and not only wake up remembering almost all of it, but still be able to at least recollect the gist of the previous night's dreams once I lay my head down again in the dark.

Have loads of dreams written down from over the past two decades. Sometimes it's overwhelming to keep up. But there mostly fun/interesting to look back at.

I tend to think of dreaming as the place where your subconscious goes to work out stuff in your life, commune with people/places in the past both living and dead and to get some clarity on things you might be struggling with. Many times for me it's just really playful stuff. But I'm sure even that can be analyzed in some way. I heard a person who works on dreams say something about the part of the brain that stores experience just sort of goes through everything at the end of the day and sorts, reviews and processes it.

@mhagle You're on candid camera. The last conversation I had with my Mom after she died was so real, it shocked me. Felt like she was reaching back to see how I took her passing. Peaceful.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/lisa-and-the-stranger-2ead99bd0690

Caitlin has a 3 part story posted that is sort of like a dream.

It seems I don't remember dreams unless I have watched television. Then there is a mixed-up version of the show with me in it.

My favorite dreams are when my deceased parents are in them and they feel real. I wake up and remember they are gone, but it is like I got to have them one more time.

Or if I lay awake and a cooking plan for the next day appears. Sometimes a solution for something else. Those are usually keepers.

Thanks for the OT. Fun reading the comments!