dreams

As to the first, how do we know that's not exactly what we're doing? As to the second, I think many or even most of us have had that feeling at times. In my case, it's not that I want to choose the dream, it's that I have a compulsion not to let it go, because it's ME, and nobody wants to tear out a piece of themselves. Not even if they think it's a piece that may be flawed.

I think most of us have recurrent themes in dreams; some of them unreservedly positive, and some of them ranging from a bit deep and dark to truly pit-of-the-stomach disturbing. There seems to be a protective mechanism that makes these recurrent dreams fade with eery rapidity and completeness when we wake, but it's not perfect, and we are left with pieces that won't go away. In the movie we get a glimpse at the mind of someone whose protective mechanism has failed completely.

to answer original poster...
Yes & Yes....

ABSOLUTELY. That's why they're called dreams!
I've had some pretty wonderful dreams, the kind that makes you warm whenever you think about it, the kind you think about all day...
A bad dream, a nightmare, may make you shiver and hangs over you like a dark cloud, haunting, really.

Was it the Aboriginal people of Australia or Africa who said, "There is a dream dreaming us...?

Which reminds me so much of Shakespeare's "As You Like It", "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances..."


Rêve!!!