Comments on: The dreams and hallucinations of cloistered monks

By: sexuallydysfunctional

sexuallydysfunctional — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:13:40 +0000

“and finally two of them dreamt they were never monks.”

I do wonder whether this was a nightmare for them or a pleasant fantasy.

By: TJGeezer

TJGeezer — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:00:28 +0000

A few years ago at UC Santa Cruz (I think it was) a researcher looking into sleep disturbances found, to his surprise, that self-identified Republican respondents had more nightmares than self-identified Democrats. The professor had no explanation but I always figured it might have to do with “conservative” political rhetoric making believers feel angry or threatened. Point here being, I wonder if the monks tending toward nightmares follow a particularly grim theology, one of threats and menace rather than promises (real or empty).

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Ring the Bell for Matins « Only Yes — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:31:20 +0000

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By: george

george — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:09:13 +0000

It would be interesting to compare with the sleep experience of new parents, particularly in terms of (1) gender differences in rousability (how many alarm clocks do nuns need), and dream content (I’m willing to bet many more men dream of being not a parent than women).

Given the vow of silence, it’s also interesting tnat 50% have conversations in their sleep.

Wonder if that counts as breaking the vow?…