Vicious Valentine

Last night I had another one of my epically screwed up nightmares. There was a green, decrepit old sperm whale trying to eat me in the water, a little girl poltergeist haunting a house I was in and cold pizza throughout the whole dream. (I think the pizza is because I went to bed without dinner.) I tend to have quite vivid and involved dreams whether they are good, bad, or just out there. It is interesting that the dream experience is different for different people. Some people can't remember dreaming at all, some only dream in certain colors, and some dream with incredible detail like me.


I was talking about my dream over on Social Anxiety Friends this morning. As conversations do it branched off. In this case into talking about Carl Jung and his theories in the field of psychology and dreams. I am a psychology major so I am familiar with the name, but I went to reacquaint myself with him via search engine references. His stance on spirituality and science both being important for human beings to incorporate into their lives is an opinion I can agree with. I think a person can learn from religion or the unseen as well as tangible science and apply that to how they live and think.


Agnosticism is my chosen affiliation at the moment. I haven't found any single religion I can truly dedicate myself to or believe in, but I've found that I do see truths in each that I have learned of, as well as the twisting that occurs within religion that can damage the lives of the religious and others. Examples of this in Christianity would be that "love thy neighbor" and "do unto others" are incredibly good ideas, based in tolerance and decency. But calling homosexuality or other religions abominations and scorning those involved is the bad that comes from misunderstanding and corruption of the teachings due to human failings. I do believe there is some kind of entity or otherness somewhere, I don't know of what exact relation it is to us or if it is sentient but I think something is responsible for everything that is, was, or will be.


It is important to have an open mind to the world around you and things you don't know or understand. I'd rather be this way than close myself off and being the lesser for it in some way. Either by hurting others or hurting myself. If people were more willing to learn or accept how other people think (when it is something not harmful) then the world might be different, it might be somewhere I'd like to live. I respect that others have a differing point of view than mine, but they are entitled to it if it is beneficial to them and not damaging anyone or anything else.

Labels: agnostic, carl jung, dreams, jungian, nightmares, spirituality, supernatural