Is it true that dreams are mostly just a way to turn an ugly reality into an absurd one?

Question

and we are just unconscious lovers... of absurdity?

Answer 1

Dali wrote down his dreams upon waking, and to a degree employed them in his Paranoiac-Critical method, in which he juxtaposed unrelated objects.  

He described the paranoiac-critical method as a "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena."

Answer 2

dreams are the brain and mind's way of sorting through the day and categorizing and inventorying life.

Answer 3

Dreams are just your subconsciouss having fun

Answer 4

I would have to say that you have described the scientific existence of absurdity's place in this world.  At least from my chair, that's how it looks to me.  Eccentricity and absurdity are crutches for the painful mind or sorrowful heart.  Security blankets for grown-ups, if you will.  Having muddled through the 60's as a modified Hippy, it is to what I have atoned the phenomenon.  

Answer 5

Dreams are not necessarily ugly or absurd. They could be based on a heartfelt wish.  

Answer 6

Its your brain sorting through various pieces of random memory it has collected from the millions of pieces of information it takes on board every day - that is why they often appear to be about your most recent dilemmas and issues.

Answer 7

Not for me. A lot of my dreams have nothing to do with an ugly reality (but then, most of my life has not been unhappy or ugly). I think that you dream about what you know, but fictionalize it so that it becomes a better "film" to view overnight. Yes, our unconscious loves absurdity -but not all of that absurdity is ugly.

Answer 8

who knows..

Answer 9

What a delightful question!

Many things in life are perplexing and, over time, most of us come to reconcile -or simplify- the complexity enough to settle in on some resolution ... I'm not sure the same can be said of our dreams.

As absurd as our dreams tend to be, they are equally fascinating and provocative; at a minimum, dreams command a modicum of conscious attention if for no other reason that, introspectively, we at times want to provide relevance to our dreams.

However, that relevance seems elusive and only seems to come with a certain level of consistent and concentrated attention, tracking, and desire to "be in it" for the long haul. That is, isolating a dream (or dreams) from a single sleep session may provide nothing more than -as you mentioned- absurdity.  

But then, dreams originate and participate in the Theatre of the Absurd (sub-conscious) and any single performance can be lacking and without merit if taken only within the constraints of that single performance (sleep session).

As such, for me at least, I try to appreciate each performance relative to the overarching play (life) and spent more attention on the sheer joy and wonderment on the "potential meaning" of my dreams as opposed to the analysis -or absoluteness- of dreams.

For example, the most salient feature retained this morning from a night of dreams is an image of me filling up my car at the gas station and the receipt indicating my car took 13 gallons of gas for a total cost of $108.95 -I have no idea what relevance that has or where it fits into the general scheme of my life ... but it will be fun over the next week or so to entertain the value (if any) of that particular piece that remains so fresh from a sleep where untold other presentations were made.

Our sub-conscious is a veritable reservoir of fragmented moments ... I'd suspect that (depending on age and experiences), billions of images, words, and apparent meaningless sequences reside there and, when isolated and considered, have little relevance other than the absurdity conveyed by its objectivity within its own nanosecond of fame (Andy Warhol allotted for 15 minutes ... our brain for fractions of seconds).  

However, in an effort (if a person is so inclined) to enjoy the depth -and richness- of our reservoir, we can (I believe) begin a rather elementary journey of discovery that permits the absurdity to make sense of the reality -ugly or not.  

Answer 10

I think you may be correct. The conscious and unconscious are very different. This morning, just before I awoke at 4:14, I was dreaming that a man on Yahoo Answers who sent me a hateful message attacked me physically and hit me in the head with a club. I had a headache that awakened me. I didn't like that dream. I guess my unconscious was having its own interpretation of the episode.  

Answer 11

That's a good way to put it.  Dreams have always helped me cope with hard situations.  I can play the scenario out to an end, and see what might happen.  Usually, the solutions are completely ridiculous or just downright crazy.  But it helps break the tension and anxiety.

(If anyone were to analyze my dreams, I'd be in a padded cell right now!)

Answer 12

I don't see why not, they probably do that & more, but I especially like the lovers of absurdity part, I am an unconscious & actively conscious of absurdity.

The absurd can be pretty ugly sometimes without having to dream about it.

I reckon to look at reality as ugly instead of beautiful is absurd, if I can.      

Answer 13

I don't think so, as not all dreams are absurd.

But its pretty much the only time you come face to face with your unconscious mind. So i guess if you're unconscious is throwing up absurd situations in your dreams, you are an unconscious lover of absurdity.