@chiisana-sukima replied to your post “@unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “Alrighty.  I’m antsy and…”

Yeah, what @unforth-ninawaters​ said. and also certain things can just become symbolic in your mind for certain emotional states, for no logical reason whatsoever, and then when you’re feeling the emotional state you’ll sometimes dream the symbol, even if the state has nothing to do with the symbol.

For a really stupid example, when im very anxious, I’ll often dream of appliances that wont turn off. its the dumbest thing in the world, and its fucking TERRIFYING.

its super-annoying if the symbol your brain picks through its own convoluted processes of association is a person, but it doesnt mean the emotion has anything to do with person irl.

(i occasionally dream of my ex too. we havent seen each other in >20 yrs and i have no feelings towards him anymore one way or the other. he was a dick sometimes and a good guy sometimes, whatever. dont know why my brain associates him with anxiety. he never made me anxious irl)

Hmm. Maybe I should start keeping a dream journal to see if I can figure out if there’s a correlation there. If there’s some kind of other reason I keep dreaming about him I’d like to know, that way I can keep myself from being so irritated about it. If there’s some kind of convoluted association my brain is making with him I’d probably be able to reason with myself a little better so I might just try a dream journal to figure it out. 

And even if I don’t figure it out, just knowing that other people experience this kind of thing and having reassurance that our brains do weird things helps a lot.