I've heard of a professor having them all the way up through retirement.
The subject matter is the psyche expressing fear at lack of control, similar to the classic "why am I not wearing any clothes" vulnerability dream. So most likely they continue until you stop fearing lack of control, or feeling vulnerable. That's something to aspire to, but hard to ever actually accomplish. :)
I temporarily conquered the "shoot, I'm naked" dream by deciding that if people were upset that I was naked, they could bloody well help me find something to put on. In the dreams I started just going up to folks and saying "hi, sorry, yeah, I know, naked, terribly embarassing - could you help?" I stopped having those dreams for awhile. I thought I was so clever in vanquishing my vulnerabilty dream, until my psyche came up with the "naked and being hunted down by strange men through a decaying city where no one speaks English" dream to replace it. :p
So, yeah. When you become superhuman, tell the rest of us how you managed it? :)
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Date: 2009-08-24 06:35 pm (UTC)The subject matter is the psyche expressing fear at lack of control, similar to the classic "why am I not wearing any clothes" vulnerability dream. So most likely they continue until you stop fearing lack of control, or feeling vulnerable. That's something to aspire to, but hard to ever actually accomplish. :)
I temporarily conquered the "shoot, I'm naked" dream by deciding that if people were upset that I was naked, they could bloody well help me find something to put on. In the dreams I started just going up to folks and saying "hi, sorry, yeah, I know, naked, terribly embarassing - could you help?" I stopped having those dreams for awhile. I thought I was so clever in vanquishing my vulnerabilty dream, until my psyche came up with the "naked and being hunted down by strange men through a decaying city where no one speaks English" dream to replace it. :p
So, yeah. When you become superhuman, tell the rest of us how you managed it? :)