"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
"Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Friday, January 23, 2009

Dreams, pt 2

I had some rather interesting dreams last night. As in my previous post, it's usually hard to recall them as they fade so quickly. However, the last dream of the night was rather vivid and I can recall it even as I write this.

But this isn't what I'm writing about. Based on a recent post on depression, I started thinking back on my old dreams. While I can recall the dreams in my old journal, I can't recall any from my late twenties or my thirties; again, water out to sea.

I wonder if my dreams would have been different had I diagnosed my depression earlier in life and had been taking medication. Would they be different in any way? How does depression affect the subconscious? How does medication?

An interesting question.

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