Dream Engaging

Last night, I dreamed that I was watch­ing elec­tion cov­er­age and could­n’t get a straight answer from any sta­tion regard­ing spe­cif­ic num­bers of elec­toral votes. Then I saw an inter­view where the moniker bar at the bot­tom of the screen said George W. Bush, Pres­i­dent-Elect. I sort of noticed it in pass­ing as it were, with­in the dream. It got me won­der­ing, duh.

I won­der what kind of stuff we miss in dreams. Stuff that our minds tell us but that still does­n’t make it through to the actu­al recog­ni­tion stage. I could have very well gone ahead and thought the dream was only about my inabil­i­ty to find out who the new prez was, but all the while the info was right there in my face, wait­ing for me to look at it.

I’ve often thought that my dreams seem to pre­dict the future at times. Or to put it bet­ter, when I have deja vu, I feel like I prob­a­bly dreamed about it in the past and only re-real­ize it. So, per­haps if folks engaged and men­tal­ly record­ed their dreams it would be pos­si­ble to deter­mine whether or not they con­tain glimpses of the unem­pir­i­cal­ly observ­able but true.

Word­ed poor­ly, but hope­ful­ly you get the gist.