Military Service And School dream memories

leading from 

development of giger's art

Stress in Giger's life would be likely to bring back memories of his time with military Service and school in the form of repeating dreams and destroy his normal dreams, and he has not found a way to stop these dreams returning.

Source Quotes

1. Giger: I sometimes have bad dreams: mostly the same dreams and they are about military service and school. I cannot kill them. I don't know how to kill them, so that they do not come again.  (Telegraph, Number 151, August 12, 1979)
2. Seconds: When you paint your nightmares, are you doing it to exorcise them or to celebrate them?
   Giger: If I have a problem in my life, it's that my dreams aren't very good. The stress destroys my dreams. It brings back memories of military service and school. If I have some disagreeable dream repeatedly. I'll paint it to liberate myself from it. (Seconds #25, p58)