Also, there's nothing more hideously boring than someone who goes into great detail about their dreams. It's one of my pet peeves. "So there I was, naked in a room filled with Dr Phil clones, then Oprah came in took my hand and flew away with me onlyIwasn'tflyingIwaseatingapeanutbuttersandwichanditwascrunchyZZZZzzzzzzzz......."
I suspect many, if not most liberal men dream of having sex with another man.
I really can't say I even remember more than one dream a year (at best)and it usually isn't anything noteworthy. I don't remember having a nightmare in decades. Granted, it is a rarity for me to get more than a few hours of sound sleep at a time. Guess I must just be one of those unfeeeling, out-of-touch-with-my-inner-self, unimaginative conservatives that are making the world so miserable for all the dreamer types. How can I sleep at night knowing that??
I've actually had non-sexual dreams about both Algore and Senator Russ Feingold. In both, I was arguing Global Warming with them, LOL!
When things like that start happening, I know it's time for me to take a "Media Break." ;)
I also dream about zombies (dawn of the dead kind) and robots. I've been an "out" conservative since 1996, but have really been one all my life... and don't even get me started on the sex...
So, when we're unconscious we're making conscious choices, Mr. Bulkeley?
I knew a dude in college 13 years ago, he got a liberal girlfriend. She refused to have sex doggy style, because it was demeaning to women. She was a 50% you on top/50% me on top, for equality.
What a pathetic, sad person. If I had a woman like that, I'd think of other women too.
Of course, throw in the hairy legs, constant power struggles, masculine dress, and forget it.
Many liberal chicks don't even like to wear high heels!!
The left-wingers we have around here are usually polite enough- this being the South, you never know if the guy or gal you're addressing is hauling along a shootin' iron- but dang, they are an uptight and humo(u)rless bunch.
So many sacred cows, causes to uphold or fight, so many things they cannot mention lest the Gods of PC and Hate Speech be offended... give me The Vast Right Wing any time.
True story.
I'm sorry, but regardless of political affiliation, if you're having dreams about President Bush (or any other recent President) then chances are you need to relax a bit about politics (unless you *work* in politics, and then maybe doubly so).
IMO this 'study' suggests to me that respondents tell the researcher what they think he wants to hear. Liberals get more wacky with their reports because they want to be thought of as cool.
Lends some credence to the theory that dreams reflect emotions suppressed in the waking life. Other studies show conservatives get more, so...
Of course, there's a counterfact: When I worked at a company that processed mortgage applications, I used to dream about numbers 3 or 4 nights a week.
The part about conservatives having realistic dreams is dead on in my own experience. When I dream it's a bunch of confused and senseless stuff, but it's all stuff from real life.
I've been shot point blank by a shotgun, blown up in a nuclear blast, fallen from a skyscraper to hard asphalt and driven my car into a perpendicular concrete wall at over 100 mph. And that is just in the last couple of years.
Over my lifetime I have wrecked my cars a LOT in dreams.
The concrete wall was the coolest. I always survive the catastrophies but this one was interesting. When I hit the concrete it was like breaking through a thin glass wall into a world of pure light.
I love going to bed at night. I always wonder what movie I'm going to see that night.
“There may be a lot of hidden distress and unpleasantness in the liberal mind.”
YA THINK?
I like the dreams where YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN THE DREAM and you can do whatever you want to, like kick the @ss of the guy that has the gun on you or do some series bitch slapping.
Funny how I never get killed in those dreams, but I get some pretty mean flesh wounds.