Thoughts on FW Intro. . .Dreaming Optimistically

The biggest thing that drew me into the introduction was the talk on night and dreaming. "Dreams are nothing other than a particular form of thinking, made possible by the conditions of the state of sleep." It sounds really dry, but I was thinking how limitless dreams can be and how sometimes, most times, they're really beyond our control. My mom used to tell me that dreams were like videos we watched on t.v.s in our heads. If you didn't like something, you could pop out that dream and put in another, like we can master them and our subconscious. I always believed this to be true to a certain extent, because I like to choose what I dream about from time to time. But we lose our senses and can't really do much in a place with blended reality and imagination. Or we think we can do stuff, since it's limitless, but it's all in our heads. "When the sense is sleep, the words go to sleep." I'm not sure what that means, but it makes me feel helpless. Maybe our dreams are movies, in that it's a story already planned and acted out, leaving us to be the audience. We can find alternative scenes and endings in special features, but it kind of just is what it is.
I took a psychology class once in high school, and we tried to interpret dreams, but there are so many interpretations out there. This site, http://www.dreamforth.com/ for example has a lot of general definitions and interpretations. I once dreamed that my junior high cafeteria was hell, and we were condemned to baking cookies for all eternity, until my friend Krista and I managed to tunnel our way out through the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet. From what I gather from the definitions, at that time I was going through some kind of problems (cafeteria) that made me feel uneasy/guilty (hell). But, because I was baking cookies, I was in an ambitious state of mind, full of energy. And I was hoping to become popular. I don't understand the filing drawer, but tunneling out meant I was going through a process of enlightenment. Crazy stuff, eh?
Anyway, I didn't realize this book was a book of dreams, which makes me feel a lot better about reading it. I'm in a better state of mind to accept the weirdness, because my dreams can be so crazy weird. And to end with a side note, I think the sound of it is almost Dr. Seuss-like. I don't know what he was saying, but it was fun. So, maybe if I dream up a positive attitude, this book won't frustrate me as much. We shall see.