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Hi Harvey;
I hope you wont be sorry you asked, because I have a habit of rambling on a bit.............
I believe dreams are a very significant part of life and have always been interested in them. Some people say they dont dream or cant remember them. I look forward to them and most of the time find them very entertaining and sometimes very useful. At one time I was lucky if I remembered the odd dream. Now I sometimes remember 4 or 5 each night.
The trick is to try not to fully wake up and jump out of bed in the morning. As you awaken, stay quiet and try to remember what you were last dreaming of. Keep a notebook and pen next to your bed and write down everything you can remember. You will be surprised at the amount of detail you can recall, and it just gets easier with this habit.
At one time I kept a dream diary for over a year. I would read the week's dreams at the end of the week, and to my surprise, after about 6 months I was dreaming literally what was going on in my life exactly 3 days prior. Important events exactly as in the dreams and always 3 days ahead. Dream 'symbolism' seemed to give way to literal people and situations.
On the rare occasion, I can remember Im dreaming and then stop and choose to dream whatever I want. (I LOVE to fly!) LOL If you, or anyone else, has an interest in the meaning of their dreams, I was taught a very unique way of interpreting them.
First, write your dreams down as soon as possible after you awake. Next, cross out all the nouns and pronouns. As you do this, replace them with YOUR meaning of them. (write them above the word you've crossed out). In other words, lets say you dream of walking down the street with your friend 'Joe'. You would cross out street and Joe. You would replace them with what 'street' represents to YOU. To me, street would represent 'travel'. Maybe not to you, and this is important. You can find the meanings by asking yourself 'what does this represent to me?' Its usually the very FIRST thing that comes to mind without deliberating on it. Other people are rarely actually in our dreams, and likely represents different attributes of ourselves. In this instance, lets say my fictional friend 'Joe' is very happy all the time, so 'Joe' would represent this to me. So you then replace 'Joe' with happiness. I think you can follow the thread of this particular part of the dream then; I will be traveling somewhere which will bring me happiness.
After you've done this with the entire dream, you then go back and re read it. Ill bet lots of things begin to make much more sense and after a while you begin to see the connection in daily life. Even if you think it is just BS, why not give it a try and see if you can make these connections? I find it very intriguing and interesting to be able to find new insights into life through this means. Id be very interested to find out the meaning of your Military banana dream!!!

PS I have often dreamed of bananas, all kinds of yet-to-be-seen VARIEGATED ones!!!