Functions and Dreams

[anticlimatic]

I've always been fascinated with dreams-- and more recently with MBTI functions-- which has lead me to the inevitable curiosity; how, exactly, do our functions contribute to our dreams? It took a nightmare following an evening of studying up in Si to provide me with some speculation, but here is what I've sorted out about my own functions and dreams. I wondered what people with same, similar, or differing functions could say about their own; and how their functions influenced them:


Internal sensing (Si) is the most obvious one I can nail down; almost all of my memorable dreams have razor sharp aesthetics; as visually convincing (and often moreso) than real life. The last nightmare I had featured a low flying stealth bomber that was struggling to stay in the air, and everything from the tree tops, to the clouds behind it, to just the right amount of distance-haze, I can recall as sharp as if it were a photograph. My dreams are almost always grounded in a solid, and detailed realism, and I speculate Si is to blame for this.

Internal thinking (Ti) seems to be most obvious in the manor in which I engage my dreams. Regardless of whether it is a good dream, or a bad dream, my primary focus always seems to be some kind of mission to organize, or understand; to plot, and prepare to execute. Always I begin a dream half-unaware, and hatching a plot to deal with whatever situation I happen to be in, is one of the first things that almost always occurs (even if it's unusual, small-scaled, or just ridiculous).

Extroverted intuition (Ne) seems to be prevalent in the execution of whatever plan I employ-- as almost always, without fail, something continually foils whatever plan I have, and I am constantly forced to adapt and branch off in a different direction. It appears in the unexpected twists and turns the dream takes along a particular narrative (not to be confused with sudden shifts in world-- another dream phenomenon I can't quite link to any particular function).

Extroverted feeling (Fe) is another big and obvious one for me; always my dreams seem to possess some kind of atmosphere, that reflects, at least initially, however I happen to feel within it. When I am depressed and listless, I dream of trashed, post apocalyptic landscapes-- when I am giddy and boyish, I dream of really green springish places, with lots of lush overgrown plants and shallow flowing waters.


Can anyone else do the same with their functions, for their dreams?

 

[Wasp]

Interest. My dreams always seem to be random, how I feel never has anything to do with them. Extroverted feeling is the only function I never use when it comes to dreams. Let's see the last dream I had was a nightmare of some sorts(I didn't feel fear like a general nightmare would make me).

It was a zombie apocalypse and my family wanted to leave to a safe zone that was at a school. I listed my reasons why it was a horrible idea but they wouldn't listen. When we arrived at the safe zone, we were split from the group of refugees into this separate camp with lots of people. That's when I began to ask questions. Then the person who was in charge disappeared so did every figure of authority. I realized our group was going to be sacrificed and spent the rest of the dream trying to figure out how to gtfo of there. I know crazy.
Like your dreams mine always appear very visually convincing. Introverted sensing always seems to play a big role in my dreams since I'm always observing my surroundings along with introverted thinking. As for extraverted intuition I wouldn't know when I'd use it since I hardly dream. Or maybe I just don't remember my dreams

 

[Wasp]

Interesting. My dreams always seem to be random, how I feel never has anything to do with them. Extroverted feeling is the only function I never use when it comes to dreams. Let's see the last dream I had was a nightmare of some sorts(I didn't feel fear like a general nightmare would make me).

It was a zombie apocalypse and my family wanted to leave to a safe zone that was at a school. I listed my reasons why it was a horrible idea but they wouldn't listen. When we arrived at the safe zone, we were split from the group of refugees into this separate camp with lots of people. That's when I began to ask questions. Then the person who was in charge disappeared so did every figure of authority. I realized our group was going to be sacrificed and spent the rest of the dream trying to figure out how to gtfo of there. I know crazy.
Like your dreams mine always appear very visually convincing. Introverted sensing always seems to play a big role in my dreams since I'm always observing my surroundings along with introverted thinking. As for extraverted intuition I wouldn't know when I'd use it since I hardly dream. Or maybe I just don't remember my dreams

 

[Cognisant]

I have incredibly vivid dreams too and it's not uncommon when something unreal is happening (like a ship sail/flying through hilly suburbs as though the hills themselves were waves) for me to be having a conversation about how totally unrealistic it is, to which they usually reply that it's a dream and I should just go with it, sometimes there's a lot of meta.

In the last dream I had I was this Voldemort like figure on what equates to a spiritual journey that lead me into into an underground temple, like the Deadric temples of Morrowind but more blue/grey than red/purple, where I found this to this big important looking hole with swirling mist obscuring it's depths, a stone sign nearby said "cult" and I gave an expository speech to myself about this being the first cult, the cult to nothing (hence the hole) then I discarded my robe, steeled my nerves with a phrase in some unknown language that meant something between "life is meaningless" and "life is but a dream" and then jumped in expecting to experiance something incredible.

After a bit of stomach lurching free fall I woke up