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Peter ([personal profile] ptc24) wrote2014-04-02 07:50 pm

I saw a couple of polls on the YouGov site, and wondered about having a go

Poll #15172 Polls nicked from YouGov
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13


What is your opinion of the font Comic Sans?

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Like Very Much
0 (0.0%)

Quite Like
2 (15.4%)

Don't Like
7 (53.8%)

Can't Stand
2 (15.4%)

Don't Know
2 (15.4%)

Do you think dreams do or do not reveal something significant about your life?

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Do
4 (30.8%)

Do not
5 (38.5%)

Don't know
4 (30.8%)

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[personal profile] pseudomonas 2014-04-02 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I think dreams may *reflect* what's going on in life, but to *reveal* it they need to provide knowledge, either through traditional interpretation or some other mechanism. If significant things in life cause dreams in a manner that's not reversable (or reverse-engineerable) there's no revelation.
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[personal profile] simont 2014-04-02 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm not interpreting "reveal" heavily enough.

*nods* I voted 'Do not', without actually disagreeing with what you say here. I think dreams are a warmed-over mishmash of memory and imagination, and hence don't give any information you might not just as plausibly have got from memory and/or imagination while awake.

Occasionally I've had a really good idea in a dream, but not often enough to make me think dreams are an especially good source of cool ideas – it seems much more likely that that was just a good idea that I happened to have while dreaming instead of having it (or a similar thought) some other time. And yes, perhaps just occasionally a dream has made me think 'hmm, I might be a bit stressed' a little before my waking behaviour gave me the same idea, but not enough before (or often enough) to make dreams any kind of Magical Oracle into your Inner Psyche.
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[personal profile] jack 2014-04-02 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That's about what I was going to say, but I phrased it as "dreams sometimes reveal things about your life". I'm sure there are good examples of not realising how worried you are about something before it came up in a dream. But I think "random mishmash of stuff you already know" is more common.

Or to put it more positively, if something about a dream bothers you, it's worth thinking about what it is. But it's not worth examining every facet of a dream and assuming they all have to reveal something.
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[personal profile] ewx 2014-04-02 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd have to go with (sometimes) reveal or perhaps cause; it's hard to determine which applies.