weird dreams...

the subject of dreams is an interesting and fascinating one, resulting in a vast amount of research done on it. there are various theories that suggest the physiology of dreams...

1. rapid eye movement (REM) sleep
during REM sleep, a person will be unable to move his/her muscles due to a shut down of certain neurotransmitters that is caused by the on-set of REM atonia, resulting in the person acting out his/her actions in the dream. ok in layman terms, it's like a situation where the body is asleep but the mind is still awake and in a world of its own.

2. continual activation
this hypothesis is rooted from REM sleep, and suggests that short-term memory is transferred to long-term memory while sleeping, thus explaining continuation in some dreams.

3. dreams and memory
suggests that our dreams are a manifestation of our long-term memories... thus explaining why some have dreams of past experiences.

i read up on those stuff from wikipedia and i dunno about you but i believe that you still as lost as i am... but we Christians also believe that dreaming is also God's way of communicating with us, like how Joseph dreamed that his brothers will come under him and how Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of weird statues and rocks...

this afternoon, i had 2 really weird dreams... i think it'd be fun to write them down here so i can remember them newaez...

dream no.1
i am in the town of Pripyat (i recall a name vaguely but just wiki-ed it to be sure). in my room, i had a window that overlooked a vast grassland. the only distinguishing feature of that territory is a nuclear power plant (haha sounding familiar). it had 2 reactors and they were on the edge of some plateau. they were huge and seem to be the only buildings in the vicinity. there were no roads leading to it.
i witnessed it's destruction, saw the giant orange mushroom cloud and many fire engines and helicopters rushing to the scene, many people died. the flames and radiation incinerated them and some of the bodies were glowing green.
then i sat down with a firefighter who mentioned that everybody that went down to try to put down the flames and rescue the workers died, and he was the only exception. there were those who died from the radiation and fires, whereas the drove down the valley to their deaths in their fire engines, so that they would not live in the shame and guilt of not being able to rescue anyone.

oh man... haha, such a dream... i do have an explanation for this dream... well, i have watched many documentaries on tv which were on the chernobyl nuclear disaster and also played call of duty 4, which featured a mission at pripyat...

dream no. 2
i flew to london and stayed in a hotel with a weird name. then i took trumpet lessons from a pudgy balding old man. he wasn't wearing glasses and had a wispy white hair above his ears and at the back of his head. his cheeks were sagging. there was someone who was there too, but the sun was shining into my eyes and I couldn't identify him/her... the lesson was going very well and i got frustrated with myself... then the music came to a passage in which i couldn't reach the high notes and i stopped playing and looked down on the floor and started crying... then i woke up and realised that my pillow was really wet and i returned into the dream and continued crying... then i woke up again and saw that the bed was drenched in my tears too...

trumpet... london... old man... crying... humph...