From: gef@hotmail.com   
      
   Kaycee wrote:   
      
   > I'm slightly confused by a recent dream. Brief version:   
   >   
   > ***   
   > I took with me an underaged guy to a party, which somehow "tainted" him,   
   > and was supposedly a bad and irresbonsible thing to do. Later in the   
   > dream the boy's mother was wondering why his son had become "tainted",   
   > and was indirectly accusing me of doing something to him. Now the   
   > interesting part: I pretended I did not remember the earlier dream   
   > sequence, and lied that nothing had happened (at the party). I then   
   > explained to myself I had been too drunk to control my actions, and too   
   > drunk to remember what actually happened. All this occurred within the   
   > context of the dream, and most of it wasn't lucid.   
   > ***   
   >   
   > So. It seems I utilized (Freudian) denial and suppression in the dream   
   > in a way my (Freudian) ego might have done in the waking world. But it   
   > surprises me that my dreaming self had the access to these defense   
   > mechanisms at all! Might this mean there are some connections between   
   > the ego and lucid awareness in a dream? Like I said, I'm confused here.   
   >   
   >   
   > Cheers, KC   
   Your ego is ther at any time, dreaming waking dying...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)