On the way to a meetup last night, I thought about my dreams and why only certain recallable elements which I’ve seen in my waking life show up in my dreams and not other elements which I’ve seen in waking life. 

I thought about how I only dream about three types of elements which have occurred to me in real life:

• physical space environments, including the following examples: my mother’s old church (1994-2002), my mother’s newer church (2002-present), former house on Orchard Way (1995-2001), really former house off Dover Drive (in the former off-base area in which we lived with my sister, her son and her now ex-husband from 1992-1995, long since bulldozed, cleared and sold to the city government along with the rest of that entire block of military housing)
• television and film stuff which I’ve seen (the other night, characters akin to those which I saw in Danny Phantom figured in the early part of a dream).
• the occasional song which I heard repeatedly on (usually gospel/christian) radio until I got the Internet (-2004)
• the occasional song which I heard in MP3 ever since (I remember hearing Alanis Morrissette’s Ironic playing in the background in one dream which I had with my mother at some deserted busstop near a railroad crossing in the middle of Southwestern, perhaps Mojave desert…and that we liked it and danced a bit to it…which is weird because Mom does not like any music which is non-christian in lyrical orientation. I liked the dream, though.).

However, I do not see, or at least I cannot recall any visual, graphical computer content which I’ve seen in the past. 

I think its weird that I do not see any graphical content from computers figuring in my dreams with as much frequency as large-sized 3-dimensional or 2-dimensional elements. For as long as I’ve been using computers (since 2004 at home, since 2002 on a frequent basis from at least a library), I find it difficult to ascertain why the visual content of the Web in which I’ve immersed my eyes when I first wake up and when I fall to sleep does not figure much in my own oneirological experiences. 

I think it may have something to do with a passive reception of the large-sized content outside my computers. I can hardly control the playback of visual content on a television set, save for changing the channel or lowering the volume. Similarly, because the 3-dimensional reality in which I normally reside is populated by immersive elements, a subset with which I interact on a frequent basis. In comparison, I can control much of what I see on the web, control playback, edit the content, and so on, using visible visual elements indicating such control. 

I still need to wrap my mind around it, so I may revist the topic.