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In Your Dreams

Date: May 08 2007

Intro

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What did you dream about last night? We usually dream of people and things that are familiar to us. But sometimes we dream of people we just met or things that just happened. Scientists aren’t really sure what causes certain things to appear in our dreams and certain things to be left out.

Kevin recently dreamed very clearly of a person he had just met. It was a little off putting, but not exactly a nightmare. When Kevin tells Marni about his dream, she describes a nightmare she has to him.

Dialog

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Kevin

Marni

Kevin: I woke up the other day having had a very vivid dream of a person I had met the night before at a party, but I had just met the first time.

Marni: Really?

Kevin: It was a little bit creepy.

Marni: Why was it creepy?

Kevin: Well, just because I didn’t know that person and I feel like it’s sort of an intimate space…

Marni: Yeah!

Kevin: ...because it was a dream and it was very vivid because it was the kind of thing that I had just before I woke up, so it was very clear throughout the day and it made me a little uncomfortable.

Marni: I have recurring dreams actually about an ex-boyfriend...

Kevin: Oh…

Marni: ...and we’re still together and in my dream I’m wondering, “Why are we still together? I don’t want to be with this person.” But constantly I’m going back to that previous relationship.

Kevin: Like how often? In terms of like, once a month?

Marni: I would say probably once a month.

Kevin: Interesting.

Marni: Yeah. And I, you know, I’m wondering if I…You think about your subconscious and all that but, I don’t know, it just keeps coming up and I wish it would stop.

Kevin: Well, I can understand. So is that dream the same, or it’s just he’s in a dream again and again?

Marni: Variation on a same theme of being with this person and not wanting to be and trying to get away from him and yeah…

Kevin: A little bit scary…

Marni: But do you find that we talk about our dreams a lot?

Kevin: All the time.

Marni: Oh, it’s great.

Kevin: Even with people we don’t really know well.

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Discussion

Kevin had a dream about someone he had just met. It made him a little uncomfortable, but Marni has a dream over and over that really bothers her. She dreams that she is still with an ex-boyfriend who she’s glad she broke up with. It’s not exactly the same dream every time, but the ex is always there and she is unable to get away from him.

Kevin and Marni like to talk about their dreams. Do you? Do you have any recurring dreams? What’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had?