Firefly dreams
POSTED BY: Melee
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 07:37
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Freudian implications are usually wrong. Often a dream is just a dream, and when it's not do you really think that the guy who spawned the terms penis envy (the theory that everything that a woman does in life is to make up for her lack of penis), anal retentive (the belief that children don’t want to poop because they will be losing something that belongs to them, the feces, and many people carry that attitude throughout their entire lives) and the Oedipus complex (named after Greek tragedy, theory states that all males want to kill their father and have sex with there mother, it is of note that this is far more perverse than the tragedy because Oedipus didn’t know what he was doing-it all happened because he was trying to avoid that very thing) is qualified to analyze your dream?
The last sentence makes sense, if you didn’t get it read it again.
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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Xin gan, next time you have a really great dream, write it down once you wake up. That's the time when it's clearest in your mind, and then you'll never forget it.
Okay, just had another one this morning and it's somewhat clear. Kaythryn and I had a big old house and on the top level it was us with Lerxst, Dutch, Satyr/Poptart, and Maguinan. On the lower level Xen lived there with Sarah and various other browncoats (it was a big house). Then we got married by Haken (didn't look like the one in Succatash's vids tho') and it was broadcast on live t.v. and the crew from Serenity was there to wish us well. After the wedding ended (8:00) the network showed Firefly and we went to Las Vegas for the honeymoon but thats about when I woke up. I left out a few details to keep this short and because I must be going crazy.
Also, Chris, thank you for warning people not to analyze their dreams because that would only make us go even crazier (if that were possible). Keep dreaming everyone.
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"And stop eating that. You don't even know what it is."
"Something called rice."
"Yes, and if it were very good, do you think they'd been standing there throwing it at people?"
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Originally posted by HotForKaylee:
Okay, just had another one this morning and it's somewhat clear. Kaythryn and I had a big old house and on the top level it was us with Lerxst, Dutch, Satyr/Poptart, and Maguinan. On the lower level Xen lived there with Sarah and various other browncoats (it was a big house).
I am very happy I get to live with Xen cos she is shiny. I would like to be closer to Lerx, who is Washy.
I had a Matrix/Firefly crossover dream again. Several of us (Hottie and Kayt are the only ones I can distinctly remember--they had matching Hawaiian shirts) were trying to unlock the Firefly matrix where if we just figured out which choice to change, we could prevent the cancellation. We did not achieve the goal, but it was pretty interesting. I was very optimistic when I woke up.
Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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Originally posted by christhecynic:
Often a dream is just a dream, and when it's not do you really think that the guy who spawned the terms penis envy (the theory that everything that a woman does in life is to make up for her lack of penis), anal retentive (the belief that children don’t want to poop because they will be losing something that belongs to them, the feces, and many people carry that attitude throughout their entire lives) and the Oedipus complex (named after Greek tragedy, theory states that all males want to kill their father and have sex with there mother, it is of note that this is far more perverse than the tragedy because Oedipus didn’t know what he was doing-it all happened because he was trying to avoid that very thing) is qualified to analyze your dream?
The last sentence makes sense, if you didn’t get it read it again.
Actually, the last sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense, as grammar and punctuation seem to be used according to non-traditional rules (see "there mother", comma splice, missing articles, run-on sentence, missing commas, em-/en-dash confusion, et al.). Additionally, your "evidence" that Freud is unqualified to analyze dreams would seem to support the very opposite position, as these terms are widely accepted by the profession and are still in use today. As to your first clause, even Freud joked, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
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Is it a really evil doorstop?
P.S. Sorry, I didn't mean to be so critical...or serious.
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I usually have Buffy or Angel dreams...think I've had some FF in there too but it all gets so fun and confused that I can't really remember...I'm just in a good mood when I wake up! 
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I am well aware of the cigar quotation as I am also aware that thought the terms penis envy, Oedipus complex, and anal retentive are still used. I hope that you are not a student of psychology or psychiatry because if you are you should know that these terms are used, but their meanings are completely different. Freud based his just about entire opinion of the human race on four mentally disturbed women. There is no section of modern psychiatry which was not influenced by him, but the only parts of his teachings that haven’t been discredited repeatedly and accepted as wrong by the majority of the profession as false are the dream interpretations.
Translation for you:
-I am well aware of the cigar quotation
-I am aware that such terms are still in use
-You should know that though the terms are used their meanings and implications have been changed.
--If you are a student of “the profession” than you can’t be a very good student
-Freud based much of his beliefs on four disturbed women
-He has influenced the whole of “the profession”
--However everything which he has said has been discredited
---His take on dream interpretation is the only one that has not been accepted as wrong by the majority of “the profession.”
If you need it broken down further I’m sure that someone else will be willing to help.
You are correct about the use of there instead of their, however the sentence isn’t a run-on. Though it was certainly not the most well written sentence ever, is not a run on. In fact as sentences go it isn’t even that long (see a school teacher and, should they be unable to convince you, read Mark Twain.)
I didn’t try to write it well, I instead aimed at it being good. In the bigger picture I think it would be hard for you to say that well is a better thing to shoot for than good.
Something to remember is that just because something is discredited does not mean that it is necessarily accepted by most as incorrect.
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Well, as should be obvious from the wickedly catty nature of my first post, I disagree with you. But that's okay, and, upon reflection, I realize that I layed into you a little more harshly than you probably deserved. Picking on your grammar was unfair, and your post does reflect a little more thought and intelligence than most of the dah bien out there. I don't think we can argue/discuss (intelligently) anymore because I got all offensive and stuff, so I'll apologize and wait for the next time we disagree...which probably won't be too long. 
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Is it a really evil doorstop?
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There you go, be optimistic. Normally I don’t like optimism much, but this is realistic cynical optimism.
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Wow. People at FF.net sure take their Freud seriously. I was just funnin' with y'all. Personally I'm more of the "dreams are just a result of various regions of your brain being randomly activated" school myself but, then again, I've always found chaos reassuring.
"I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is just so bad. It's depressing." Tara, BTVS
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Chaos is very reassuring and, if taken in the form of religion, very funny.
http://www.poee.org/documents/HyperText/The_Principia_Discordia.htm
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"There are trivial truths & there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."
-Neils Bohr
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-MARX
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