Dreams

[Aruntraveller]

So this was odd.

Firstly to explain due to the heat we (partner & I) are sleeping in separate bedrooms, me being a get up and roam around type because its too fucking hot.

Anyway, night before last I had a dream (I don't often remember dreams) and this was very vivid. It concerned Nottingham Railway station and I was trying to get a ticket to London but the station was really busy in a way that seemed more like an Indian railway station. The office clerk was in a little triangular cupboard in the corner of the waiting room and was taking forever to dispense tickets. Partner had already got his and disappeared. With lots more detail in the dream I eventually got my ticket and rushed to catch the train. I had to cross a beach to get to the right platform (look its a dream what did you expect sense?) got to the train and was then woken up by seagulls.....

So the next morning I shared my dream with partner who when I first started, sat down rather abruptly on the sofa, I thought he was just tired and continued. When I finished he said rather shakily that he had a dream last night about Nottingham Railway station, and it being crowded, and being separated and having to rush for the train. Some of the details differ - no beach in his dream. They were however close enough for both of us to be slightly discombobulated.

I should say we left Nottingham last year for the South coast and we haven't been talking about Nottingham at all, and we very seldom used the railway station anyway.

So what's all that about then?

[Roses]

I must admit it is a bit creepy that you both had a similar dream.

[SusanDoris]

No problem, TV!! Nottingham has been in the news this last week, hasn't it, regarding the virus? I bet, if you listened again to every radio and TV broadcast you have heard recently, stations would have been mentioned, and since it is highly likely that you have both listened to most of all of that. then your brains would have come up with something similar, particularly because of the association with Nottingham. It is coincidence of course, but always such events are interesting and remain in the memory.

As far as dreams are concerned, all my life I have had vivid, complicated dreams, casts of thousands, scenery, mainly urban or town, full of colour and action. Quite a few I can still picture in my mind, but oh dear, what a pity I have no talent for writing any of the stories and scenes they depict!!

[Harrowby Hall]

The neuroscience purpose of dreams appears to be related to the organisation of memory. The process of dreaming permits new memories to be integrated into exisiting memories - older memories may be expunged or evaluated for their relevence. Nottingham had been an imprtant element of your life for a long time, and as Susan says, new information about such an important subject would mean that your memory store would need some kind of attention.

I've talked here of "memory" as some kind of physical storage system. It clearly is not - but how else can we discuss a neurological activity which works in an inexplicable manner than by using physical information storage systems as analogies?

You didn't set Nottingham station on fire in your dream by any chance?   

[Nearly Sane]

Memory is strange. It may be a completely unrelated thing that you both associate with train stations, and because you have only recently moved,   Nottingham fits more closely to both your ideas of home or 'normal'.

[Roses]

Memory of most of my dreams disappear the  second I awake these days, it must be old age! I can still remember some from my childhood, one very strange one in particular.

[Free Willy]

So this was odd.

Firstly to explain due to the heat we (partner & I) are sleeping in separate bedrooms, me being a get up and roam around type because its too fucking hot.

Anyway, night before last I had a dream (I don't often remember dreams) and this was very vivid. It concerned Nottingham Railway station and I was trying to get a ticket to London but the station was really busy in a way that seemed more like an Indian railway station. The office clerk was in a little triangular cupboard in the corner of the waiting room and was taking forever to dispense tickets. Partner had already got his and disappeared. With lots more detail in the dream I eventually got my ticket and rushed to catch the train. I had to cross a beach to get to the right platform (look its a dream what did you expect sense?) got to the train and was then woken up by seagulls.....

So the next morning I shared my dream with partner who when I first started, sat down rather abruptly on the sofa, I thought he was just tired and continued. When I finished he said rather shakily that he had a dream last night about Nottingham Railway station, and it being crowded, and being separated and having to rush for the train. Some of the details differ - no beach in his dream. They were however close enough for both of us to be slightly discombobulated.

I should say we left Nottingham last year for the South coast and we haven't been talking about Nottingham at all, and we very seldom used the railway station anyway.

So what's all that about then?

Without reaching for the neuroscience (Kills 99% of human wonder) or Mysticism. My first thought is “ You lucky people “.   Carry on as normal and monitor the situation.