December 1, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Thought Shower, Intern John recaps Thanksgiving, and what your dreams mean!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And a Happy Monday friend to welcome to the thought Shower.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Intern John is my name.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Was a crazy busy Yeah, busy basically last couple of days.
Hopefully had a fantastic Thanksgiving mine. So Wednesday of last
week was blackout Wednesday as they call it affectionately in
the bar industry, where basically it's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving,
so everybody goes to bars and drinks, and so I
(00:26):
was out at Hyde. Was very busy and left around
like one ish, which is probably a good thing. Good
seeing folks there. Fantastic Thursday. Didn't really do anything for Thanksgiving,
which I'm gonna be honest, I didn't mind per se.
I was lucky to have some friends invite me out,
but really just needed to take a day to do
(00:48):
nothing and that was lovely. Friday went to the Cavs
game a buddy Evan, was a lot of fun. They
went back to went back to the bar as we
had to do Saturdays at the bar as well, and
then Sun try to get my life back together. This week,
crazy hockey officially starts, like our first league game is today,
which is very exciting for that now this season starts.
(01:11):
I think this is year nine something like that. So
being beautiful Laurel Maryland today. Luckily the hockey schedule this
year isn't as bad like sometimes, like we do have
a game at three pm at Calvert Hall, like Mount Pleasant,
which that's gonna be a long, long drive there and back. Overall,
I guess I can't complain. My parents used to take
(01:32):
me to Canada for hockey trips, so who am I
to complaining? And then this week too is kind of
getting ready man for the end of the year. Also
stranger things. I watched the first three episodes on Thanksgiving
on Thursday, and so I watched the first three episodes
and I was reading that like, oh, at the end
(01:52):
of the you know, the last episode of this release,
there's a huge cliffhanger. And so I watched episode three
and there is a mini cliffhanger. I'm like, Okay, that's cool.
And then I saw all these memes about scenes that
I had never seen before. I was like, what I
miss realized hours later I missed the fourth episode, so
you know, made up for it. But I thought it
was really good. I think like it's one of the
(02:13):
few times where you're almost happy. There was that kind
of delay because it's like, it's really good. If you
haven't watched Change of Things, I highly recommend it. It
was very well written. So let me get to this
for your Monday. The creepy dreams that expose what's going
on you're subconscious. I love doing stuff like this because
I do think that how they figure this stuff out,
(02:34):
who knows. But a lot of these make sense, Like
the dream where you're losing your teeth, like if you're
talking teeth fall out. A study says tooth loss dreams
often signal anxiety around control, aging, or losing something valuable
in life. Your brain dramatizes these fears by making the
loss physical and impossible to ignore your subconscious and screaming
(02:57):
that something in your waking life feels unstable. I've also
heard too that means like you're just nervous and kind
to this point that because teeth are so visible that
like other people can see something's wrong, and like that
to me kind of makes sense. The dream where you're
falling forever. They say, the falling dream hits your soul
accidentallyun plugged from your body mids sleep, it shows up
(03:19):
and you feel unsupported in real life, like your free
falling without a safety net. It's your subconscious replain the
emotional drop you've been trying to ignore. Again, I don't
know if I've had that one too much, but that one,
to me also kind of makes sense. And hopefully there's
always that think like, oh, if you actually follow the
ground your sleep, you die.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How do we know that? You know? How we know that?
The dream where you're.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Being chased, They say, being chased in the dream feels
primal because your survival systems reenacting a sense of emotional danger.
Trauma researchers note that these dreams can often reflect unresolved
fears the body hasn't yet yet process. Again, that makes sense, right,
You're running from something. And I always seems like in
dreams like you can't run fast, you know what I mean?
(04:05):
Or like I'll get stuck in the mud, or like
I'll have a dream where it's like I'm playing hockey
all of a sudden, I can't skate fast. What does
that mean? I'm really fast, dude, really fast. The dream
where you're back in school, unprepared. I've had this a
couple of times. All this a like work related to
they say. This stream usually pops up when you're downing
(04:25):
your competence. Oh no, even if you're killing in real life.
It shows up when you feel judge, scrutinized or behind
your brain counters an outdated school anxiety because it's the
earliest place you learn to fear of failure. Damn, maybe
that is true. Then maybe that is true. I fear
failure more than anything. You know. It's so, I guess
(04:47):
that makes sense to me because like I'll have like
the work ones too, where it's like I'll get to
the show and feel so unprepared, which is that's my
biggest pet piece.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Not the right word.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
My biggest main fear is like not having a running
out of things to talk about in the show, like gymily,
So that kind of makes sense. The dream where you
can't speak or move. Yeah, dream paralysis feels like your
own body is swallowed by you. Sleep researchers note that
this is tied to rem sleep disruptions. Your brain wakes
up before your muscle. Zoo symbolicallys about feelings silence are
(05:16):
powerless in your waking life. There is nothing worse than
waking up paralyzed. That is one of like the that
is night teares are a real thing and then for
me like I'll get them. Not I wouldn't say frequently,
but like somewhat regular, not regular basis, but like you know,
a couple times a year and having to like remind
(05:37):
yourself like okay, you're gonna be fine, way for it,
like as your brain reboots.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Almost like that to me is scary, scary, scary.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The dream where dead loved ones visit they see as
they say, seeing de ceased person and dream feels eerie,
say collegists say, is more meaningful than morbid. A study
published I found the visitation dreams often how people process
grief or resolved emotions. The brain brings them back when
you're struggling with closure or longing for guidance. They say,
it's not about ghosts's about memory and healing. I mean,
(06:08):
I guess from a scientific standpoint, I can't understand that
I've seen people from my past and dreams, and most
times it is just like I would agree with that
part of it right where it's just like the brain
processing it just kind of feels like I'm a memory,
if you will, Like it doesn't seem off. I have
(06:29):
had people from my past come to me in dreams.
And it like it was like we're talking right now,
And that to me, I don't think is scientific. That's
a I think that's something more because it felt different,
if that makes sense, Like the ones that felt more
scientific again just kind of felt like, yeah, I'm on
the roller coaster ride. The conversations I've had with people
(06:50):
who have passed that to me is like, that's not
a memory, that's something else. It's like the craziest stuff.
Maybe one day we'll get into that, but yeah, who knows.
The dream where animals are stalking you. I haven't had that.
I would love that, would love that, say, animals and
your dreams often represent instincts you're suppressing. When they're stalking you.
It means you're avoiding something primal, anger, desire, fear, or ambition.
(07:14):
They're creepiness comes from seeing your own instincts person fid
as predators. I'd not had that. They'll be terrifying. They'd
be terrifying. The dream where you see yourself from the outside,
they say. Seeing yourself in a dream almost like you're
watching your own life. It signals deep association. It shows
up when you've been performing instead of living. It strifts
away from the illusion. It shows you the version of
(07:34):
yourself you've been projecting. I guess that makes sense. I
haven't had that. I mean I talked a little bit
about if I think back to like the night chewy past,
like my memory plays it like not from my eyes,
it plays it from like I'm watching a reality show.
It's the oddest thing. I'm walking into this hotel room.
(07:55):
And again it's not me, it's a guy. There's a
guy walking in the hotel room. He has his border
college the other side of the room, and he walks
in the bathroom and finds his dog gone the floor.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's the oddest thing.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And then like I'll realize midwi through, I'm like, oh,
I'm like, oh my god, I feel so sad for
this guy, this poor guy who's found his dog passed away.
And then it's like, oh no, that's me. It's the
oddest thing. And I guess that makes sense. With the
dissociation that, like I've tried to untether myself from that,
perhaps that to me makes sense. If I ever saw
(08:26):
myself in a dream, dream like normal dream, like who's
that hot piece of man meat?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know what I mean? Yeah, break me off some of.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That The last one will do the dream where you're
in a place that feels haunted. They say, haunted dreams
aren't usually about ghosts, that are about lingering emotions, something
unresolved that is sticking to you, and your brain turns
it into a haunting to get your attention.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He said. The vibe is eerie because the feeling is old.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're being visited by something you haven't dealt with, and
he won't leave and tell you acknowledge it. I think
I've had that before too, but usually you're on Halloween
when I'm watching like scary things you know, I don't know. Again,
I'm always curious with the brain stuff. It's like, how
do we know this is what that means? I guess
like they probably asked you if you had the following dream,
like what do you feel like?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What's your current life?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Like? Maybe that's how it is, but anyway, I hope
you have a fantastic Monday. I appreciate you listening following
at Internsi Radios Thush Hour
And a Happy Monday friend to welcome to the thought Shower.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Intern John is my name.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Was a crazy busy Yeah, busy basically last couple of days.
Hopefully had a fantastic Thanksgiving mine. So Wednesday of last
week was blackout Wednesday as they call it affectionately in
the bar industry, where basically it's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving,
so everybody goes to bars and drinks, and so I
(00:26):
was out at Hyde. Was very busy and left around
like one ish, which is probably a good thing. Good
seeing folks there. Fantastic Thursday. Didn't really do anything for Thanksgiving,
which I'm gonna be honest, I didn't mind per se.
I was lucky to have some friends invite me out,
but really just needed to take a day to do
(00:48):
nothing and that was lovely. Friday went to the Cavs
game a buddy Evan, was a lot of fun. They
went back to went back to the bar as we
had to do Saturdays at the bar as well, and
then Sun try to get my life back together. This week,
crazy hockey officially starts, like our first league game is today,
which is very exciting for that now this season starts.
(01:11):
I think this is year nine something like that. So
being beautiful Laurel Maryland today. Luckily the hockey schedule this
year isn't as bad like sometimes, like we do have
a game at three pm at Calvert Hall, like Mount Pleasant,
which that's gonna be a long, long drive there and back. Overall,
I guess I can't complain. My parents used to take
(01:32):
me to Canada for hockey trips, so who am I
to complaining? And then this week too is kind of
getting ready man for the end of the year. Also
stranger things. I watched the first three episodes on Thanksgiving
on Thursday, and so I watched the first three episodes
and I was reading that like, oh, at the end
(01:52):
of the you know, the last episode of this release,
there's a huge cliffhanger. And so I watched episode three
and there is a mini cliffhanger. I'm like, Okay, that's cool.
And then I saw all these memes about scenes that
I had never seen before. I was like, what I
miss realized hours later I missed the fourth episode, so
you know, made up for it. But I thought it
was really good. I think like it's one of the
(02:13):
few times where you're almost happy. There was that kind
of delay because it's like, it's really good. If you
haven't watched Change of Things, I highly recommend it. It
was very well written. So let me get to this
for your Monday. The creepy dreams that expose what's going
on you're subconscious. I love doing stuff like this because
I do think that how they figure this stuff out,
(02:34):
who knows. But a lot of these make sense, Like
the dream where you're losing your teeth, like if you're
talking teeth fall out. A study says tooth loss dreams
often signal anxiety around control, aging, or losing something valuable
in life. Your brain dramatizes these fears by making the
loss physical and impossible to ignore your subconscious and screaming
(02:57):
that something in your waking life feels unstable. I've also
heard too that means like you're just nervous and kind
to this point that because teeth are so visible that
like other people can see something's wrong, and like that
to me kind of makes sense. The dream where you're
falling forever. They say, the falling dream hits your soul
accidentallyun plugged from your body mids sleep, it shows up
(03:19):
and you feel unsupported in real life, like your free
falling without a safety net. It's your subconscious replain the
emotional drop you've been trying to ignore. Again, I don't
know if I've had that one too much, but that one,
to me also kind of makes sense. And hopefully there's
always that think like, oh, if you actually follow the
ground your sleep, you die.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How do we know that? You know? How we know that?
The dream where you're.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Being chased, They say, being chased in the dream feels
primal because your survival systems reenacting a sense of emotional danger.
Trauma researchers note that these dreams can often reflect unresolved
fears the body hasn't yet yet process. Again, that makes sense, right,
You're running from something. And I always seems like in
dreams like you can't run fast, you know what I mean?
(04:05):
Or like I'll get stuck in the mud, or like
I'll have a dream where it's like I'm playing hockey
all of a sudden, I can't skate fast. What does
that mean? I'm really fast, dude, really fast. The dream
where you're back in school, unprepared. I've had this a
couple of times. All this a like work related to
they say. This stream usually pops up when you're downing
(04:25):
your competence. Oh no, even if you're killing in real life.
It shows up when you feel judge, scrutinized or behind
your brain counters an outdated school anxiety because it's the
earliest place you learn to fear of failure. Damn, maybe
that is true. Then maybe that is true. I fear
failure more than anything. You know. It's so, I guess
(04:47):
that makes sense to me because like I'll have like
the work ones too, where it's like I'll get to
the show and feel so unprepared, which is that's my
biggest pet piece.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Not the right word.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
My biggest main fear is like not having a running
out of things to talk about in the show, like gymily,
So that kind of makes sense. The dream where you
can't speak or move. Yeah, dream paralysis feels like your
own body is swallowed by you. Sleep researchers note that
this is tied to rem sleep disruptions. Your brain wakes
up before your muscle. Zoo symbolicallys about feelings silence are
(05:16):
powerless in your waking life. There is nothing worse than
waking up paralyzed. That is one of like the that
is night teares are a real thing and then for
me like I'll get them. Not I wouldn't say frequently,
but like somewhat regular, not regular basis, but like you know,
a couple times a year and having to like remind
(05:37):
yourself like okay, you're gonna be fine, way for it,
like as your brain reboots.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Almost like that to me is scary, scary, scary.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The dream where dead loved ones visit they see as
they say, seeing de ceased person and dream feels eerie,
say collegists say, is more meaningful than morbid. A study
published I found the visitation dreams often how people process
grief or resolved emotions. The brain brings them back when
you're struggling with closure or longing for guidance. They say,
it's not about ghosts's about memory and healing. I mean,
(06:08):
I guess from a scientific standpoint, I can't understand that
I've seen people from my past and dreams, and most
times it is just like I would agree with that
part of it right where it's just like the brain
processing it just kind of feels like I'm a memory,
if you will, Like it doesn't seem off. I have
(06:29):
had people from my past come to me in dreams.
And it like it was like we're talking right now,
And that to me, I don't think is scientific. That's
a I think that's something more because it felt different,
if that makes sense, Like the ones that felt more
scientific again just kind of felt like, yeah, I'm on
the roller coaster ride. The conversations I've had with people
(06:50):
who have passed that to me is like, that's not
a memory, that's something else. It's like the craziest stuff.
Maybe one day we'll get into that, but yeah, who knows.
The dream where animals are stalking you. I haven't had that.
I would love that, would love that, say, animals and
your dreams often represent instincts you're suppressing. When they're stalking you.
It means you're avoiding something primal, anger, desire, fear, or ambition.
(07:14):
They're creepiness comes from seeing your own instincts person fid
as predators. I'd not had that. They'll be terrifying. They'd
be terrifying. The dream where you see yourself from the outside,
they say. Seeing yourself in a dream almost like you're
watching your own life. It signals deep association. It shows
up when you've been performing instead of living. It strifts
away from the illusion. It shows you the version of
(07:34):
yourself you've been projecting. I guess that makes sense. I
haven't had that. I mean I talked a little bit
about if I think back to like the night chewy past,
like my memory plays it like not from my eyes,
it plays it from like I'm watching a reality show.
It's the oddest thing. I'm walking into this hotel room.
(07:55):
And again it's not me, it's a guy. There's a
guy walking in the hotel room. He has his border
college the other side of the room, and he walks
in the bathroom and finds his dog gone the floor.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's the oddest thing.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And then like I'll realize midwi through, I'm like, oh,
I'm like, oh my god, I feel so sad for
this guy, this poor guy who's found his dog passed away.
And then it's like, oh no, that's me. It's the
oddest thing. And I guess that makes sense. With the
dissociation that, like I've tried to untether myself from that,
perhaps that to me makes sense. If I ever saw
(08:26):
myself in a dream, dream like normal dream, like who's
that hot piece of man meat?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know what I mean? Yeah, break me off some of.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That The last one will do the dream where you're
in a place that feels haunted. They say, haunted dreams
aren't usually about ghosts, that are about lingering emotions, something
unresolved that is sticking to you, and your brain turns
it into a haunting to get your attention.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He said. The vibe is eerie because the feeling is old.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're being visited by something you haven't dealt with, and
he won't leave and tell you acknowledge it. I think
I've had that before too, but usually you're on Halloween
when I'm watching like scary things you know, I don't know. Again,
I'm always curious with the brain stuff. It's like, how
do we know this is what that means? I guess
like they probably asked you if you had the following dream,
like what do you feel like?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What's your current life?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Like? Maybe that's how it is, but anyway, I hope
you have a fantastic Monday. I appreciate you listening following
at Internsi Radios Thush Hour
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