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Thursday, March 12, 2009
I strongly believe so. Every dream that I can recall was a new visualization of my hopes, fears, desires, worries, etc. Cherish all dreams because it is one of few places we can live in, even if only for a brief time, in complete harmony.
So do dreams mean anything?
I sincerely think that they do.
I Love This Video!
Dreams mean something.
They're basically a reflection of your subconscious' insanity put in picture form =)
i think they really do mean something. Most of the time i forget my dreams , but then ill remember a little part of it later in the day and think about how weird they are and because they are soo weird i never really figure out what they actually mean but i think that they do mean something but maybe my brain doesn't want me to remember the whole dream so i dont get the meaning?
Also i usually remember nightmares most of the time. Like this one i had the other day. It was like the movie I am Legend and i was alone, so i guess that means that i dont want to be alone,easily enough. Though any scary movie i watch usually ends up with a nightmare for me and not the day i saw it but like a few weeks or months after seeing it. im weird.
Dreams are your spirit's way of processing the things it has been exposed to. That's why some have nightmares after watching something scary. Your spirit will embrace those things that are good for you and push out those things that are harmful.
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This is my father's blog about how to unravel the meaning of your dream and use it for personal transformation in your life.
It is amazing.
It will change your life.
And no, I'm not just saying that because he's my dad.
i think it depends. sometimes when we think about something beroe bed we end up dreaming about it which seems to be very literal and proves that dreams do mean something because we dream about things that mean something to us. But other times when we have really random dreams it doesnt seem like they could possibly mean anything significant but i think that yes, our dreams always mean something even if its something small. The emotions that we experience during our dreams or the small details that we remember probably are significant and give a glimpse into something that we are thinking or concerned about. dreams are majical and at the very least, should be enjoyed and definately not ignored.
i am quite a vivid dreamer..i always have been. i can remember them and visualize them long after waking.
for me, some bits may be just random. but other pieces i think are subconscious bits floating through...
i used to have dreams in which i would solve math equations or ask questions i needed answered and when i would awake i would know the answers! so i know that dreaming serves some purpose. maybe not all the time but in some cases.
and i also have had re occuring dreams..so that disproves the random synapses of the brain theory.
colors, smells, emotions, music, etc. have all been in my dreams as well, and they seam so rich and vibrant sometimes.. i could never fully explain.
I agree with masterbaker: dreams are just a collection of things we have in our brains. I vaguely remember reading that dreaming is the subconscious making stuff up to divert itself while we rest. So, what does it draw from? Random occurrences throughout our lives.
However, sometimes I have vivid dreams about something, and it will happen days, weeks, or even months later in real life, exactly how it happened in the dream. Usually it's just short dialogue or something minor. Creepy deja vu! I really don't know how to explain those dreams.
dreams are a reflection of all the random things we have stored in our subconscious. either that, or i'm living out my life in a parallel universe through my dreams.
I like to think that dreams are the result of the little things during the previous day that you thought of but weren't actually aware of. For example, if I had a very interesting day, that night I might dream about stubbing my toe on my way out the door that morning: something NOT part of the interesting day that my conscious experienced, but something that my subconscious got a hold of for a few seconds. But that's just usually how I dream. :)
random things from everyday and little thoughts that you had (and want to think about more but instead you put it out of your mind) will come through in a dream. feelings you didnt know you had and emotions come spilling out sometimes. even fantasies. i found that when i go to bed angry, thats when the dreams get really weird. so much of my raw emotion gets channeled in my dreams and i awake refreshed and ready to resolve why i was angry the night before. some things in dreams have symbolic meanings, like colors or main objects. sometimes these objects are manifestations of anxieties one may have but try to dismiss during the day.
first, rad video. second, i dunno. i started one of those "dream journals" a while back, cuz its supposed to help you remember your dreams if you try to write them down or talk about them right when you get up. and it worked, i had been dreaming alot more than i realized.. alot of unconscious story lines disappeared into forgetfulness. but when i read all of them, looked back on them, thought about them, i didnt see anything special. pretty much just that sure, there's brain activity even when you're unconscious. but just because i couldn't find any deeper meaning doesnt mean it doesnt exist. i believe in the supernatural, in a God, in the God of the Bible, and i believe that if He wanted to communicate to us through dreams, that He could, and would.
yeah i think that happend to me once the sleep paralysis
it was crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had a freaky dream the other day
me and my 2 best friends ( a boy and a girl brother and sis. ) were being chased by you won't believe it but SNOOP DOG it was madness ( just so you all know snoop dog is a singer) and we were running in alleys in the dark and then we see HIM and to of our other friends and they were helpin' him and then i got so freaked out and woke up it was crazy
so does any1 know wat it might mean???
I usually don't remember my dreams.
As anyone ever experienced sleep paralysis?
I thought I was having a crazy dream before I realized what was happening to me. It is a very strange thing.
Dreams to me, are serious things. Not those pizza dreams that you have when you had 4 too many slices... but those that wake you up in the middle of the night with a strong message. I always try to write them down, because usually they reflect on a matter that I am going through, or WILL be going through. It is like my soul is giving my brain some hints on what to expect, or what needs to be done. I can usually tell which dreams are messages, which dreams are just random blabbers, and which dreams are random and are just there to fill the void.... Then again, I'm usually asleep when these happen, so I'm sure I miss quite alot of what goes on.
out of discussion topic, but I LOVE Oren Lavie. i recently checked him out and bought his cd. worth every penny. the fact you posted his video got me excited. does anyone have his PO Box address? i would like to mail him a letter. :)
I am always fascinated by people who say they don't dream. Surely everyone dreams, right? Maybe they don't remember them but isn't dreaming the time when your spirit takes a wee walk in its own world? I'd like to think so...maybe because then that'd explain all the crazy dreams I've had in my time...they're so vivid usually and don't seem to make too much sense. But, I have found that when I remember a dream really clearly and discuss it with others, I get so much clarity from the dream that seemed so random at the time of waking. Those dreams really do seem to be soul-messages, gems of the spiritual world.
When I was a kid my best mate and I used to call each other up and arrange sleep overs because it had been too long since either of us had had any "weird" dreams. For some strange reason (maybe it's an energy thing) she and I always had the most mental dreams when we slept in the same room together. Morning time was always a treat because then we'd get to recount the weirdness of the night.
Love dreams...love that we're so alive inwardly when we seem outwardly dead to the world.
I never really contemplated this to much until recently when a medication I am on change my dream pattern completely. Instead of having wonderfully fascinating (and that includes the scary ones) dreams I simply find myself reliving the previous day. I truly truly miss escaping into a different world. So I guess itâs true you donât know what you have till itâs gone. I really enjoyed this video.
I think that its a combination of both. I think some dreams are just made up of the random happenings of your day. Every time I dream there is always one element that I can remember from the previous day when I wake up. If I watched a zombie movie chances are I'll be having a zombie dream. Yet other dreams have opened my eyes to things going on in my life. For example a few years ago I knew two people who I thought were good friends, both who were using me. I had a dream one night two months in with both of them in it. It was hands down the worst dream I have ever had. It was also very random and odd but the whole dream I kept asking my self : why I was letting them manipulate me in such a way. When I woke up I felt awful and I realized that this wasn't a new feeling for me around them. I realized that my subconscious had picked up on an emotion I was feeling on a daily basis and incorporated it into my dream. It was quite eye opening.
Dreams! I love dreams. People I think about a lot often crop up in my dreams, and things I don't think about (at least, i don't KNOW i'm thinking about them) are also very prominent. Also - you know how sometimes dreams change, really fast, and you don't notice? Like, one minute you're in a lake you go to sometimes, and you step out of the lake and you're on your street? So it looks like the lake is next to the street? I believe that happens because the more sane/conscious part of your mind (the part you don't use much in dreams) mashes things together to help it understand what's actually going on. So, a dream is like letting your subconscious thoughts run wild and your conscious thoughts trying to organize them in a way that you can understand when you wake up.
I wonder if there's a way to re-translate them back into the raw, less comprehensible form. I bet they'd have a lot more meaning that way.
Personally, I take my dreams seriously because it has reflected a lot on my life and the people around me. They are sometimes about the past or sometimes about the future. Most times, and I think I speak on behalf of many others, when I say that things appear not as they seem, when youre dreaming ie: dreaming of some sort of animal biting you may frighten you but in reality, it actually meant something positive. etc.
For some it may be a hauntful (if thats even a word lol) experience, but for me I think its a blessing.
That's so cool! The human brain is so fascinating...there's so much we don't fully understand about it yet, and I think dreams are one of them...
You know, this is one thing I have thought a lot about. I had a lot of weird powerful dreams in December. Some of them came true and that freaked me out... Some things were so absurd, like I had a dream were I got married to a spider well a " were spider" who was misunderstood, but I had to get away from him...and I thought " That's just a freaky dream" but analyzing it I realized it meant that bad side of myself
Some dreams are just dumb, some are a product of television, media or whatever but there are some that are like : listen pay attention moron, this is for you to know.
I had a dream fifteen years ago, and I didn't remember it, but it showed me a lot that was going to happen in my life. When I was walking in London in this Bahai burial site where Shoghi Effendi is buried I encountered this wood and it was exactly like my dream! It was such a " duude" moment. But I knew, ( and I was feeling kind of lost at the time) it was sort of like yeah I was supposed to be there for whatever reason.
That said, I don't pay attention so much to dreams verbatim. Some things come true, some don't some are crazy and some are just completely odd. But they are a beautiful little glimpse into our weird journey of what we call the soul
I was reading from a college text book, and it said that our dreams usually have an underlying meaning. but, sometimes they seem way to random to mean anything. maybe, they do always mean something,but are too odd or strange to make sense, or guide us.
They can be both - but I think we work out a lot of major problems in dreams. I just went to a lecture about dreams a couple of weeks ago (dreams and ESP) and that's what they said as well. I've gotten life-changing insights about myself from them a la Jung. I guess there's an element of randomness as well.
Also - I've had dreams about dead relatives that I'm convinced were visits.
Sometimes dreams are random...
Sometimes they are the result of something our psyche is working out (ie, nightmares from anxiety)...
Sometimes they are part of the energy of the collective consciousness...
It's up to you to figure out what your dreams mean in relation to your life.
Simple as that.
I really believe that our soul is free to travel through all the worlds of God while we are asleep. Sometimes we have such vivid dreams that can tell us of the future. I have made major life decisions because of dreams. I think that this experience leads some to the belief of reincarnation. And I think that through our DNA we can have memories of our ancestors. During our sleep we can commune with our ancestors also. It's also a time for us to face our subconscious and awake and look at life differently. We may be in denial or unaware of something and in our dreams we learn to come to terms with it. I think that the items and characters in our dreams can be sybols and have studied books about it. I have kept a dream book next to my bed at times in my life when I was needing guidance.
I am a believer in the notion that our dreams are our subconscious mind's way of preparing our conscious mind for things. For example, if a person needs help facing problems in their life, they may constantly dream about confrontation of some sort. It just makes sense to me.
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I really like the dream interpretation you made. I made my comment without having looked at what you wrote. I agree completely. The problem is believing that the way will be shown on how to work the pedals. He seems to have his working ok which are more symbols of how to manipulate and get things to work, but his feet present the problem because feet are what take you along the path.
One of the comments I often hear from people who have dreams that they don't understand that seem a bit crazy is that dream must be meaningless. What I have come to believe is that we may be going through the only period in human history where the great majority of people don't take their dreams seriously. I have no doubt that is caused by a total preoccupation with material goals. Your dream has a lot to do with the place you are in with soul pancake. You have made the leap forward to use the arts to awaken the minds and hearts of humanity, but you don't know quite how to use the medium yet. I want to honour you for this great leap. There is nothing like putting yourself out there for everyone to see to force the great learning that is about to happen for a lot of people. Last December I had to organize a huge swim meet for 600 swimmers using electronic timing and scoring. I just remember how excited and anxious I was at the same time because I had never organized a swim meet of such magnitude. It just seems to me that you have picked the launching of this great project at just the right time because humanity is obviously open to new ideas once again. The pedals will reveal themselves to you.
Been really into dreams since a mentor Richard Hastings (see richardhastings.net) turned me on to them when I was around 16. It is one of the themes in life I have become most passionate about. One comment Jung made about them is that 'Dreams have a meaning like everything else we do' (close or exact quote- don't remember which book I read that in many moons ago). To that I would suggest that while everything we do has a meaning- the meaning may be mundane, or obscure during waking life since the meaning of eating for instance is that your are hungry, and since for instance the meaning of someone buying a cheese-burger may be that he is a scientist and his boss asked him to pick one up to do experiments on. One of the reasons dreams can be so valuable may be the fact that we dream inside our own consciousness with little or no disruption from the outside world. Thus, in dreaming we find a pure spyglass which faces inward. There is much more to it than that, but these are some things to think about.
I think that the meaning of a dream is conditional. Just like the meaning of a note in a song or a word in a screenplay. It's relevance is based purely on the the conduit that brings it into existence (you, in this case). But... there's definitely a spiritual significance when the communication of that dream (or note, or word) is successful and the meaning is understood!
wow i love that video clip it is so inspiring who made it i wanna meet this guy...that was just so amazing!!
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I'm taking a psychology course and we just read a chapter on "States of Consciousness". My conclusion (which I already pretty much believed before reading the chapter): dreams definitely mean something.
Dreams are the reflections of things going on in our lives, especially things we feel very emotional about, whether it be good or bad. Also, sleep and dreams help us to work out problems in our mind and they help our bodies rest while also keeping different parts of our brains active.
Usually I have very mundane dreams, just talking to people. Sometimes I will get confused as to whether I actually had a conversation with someone or not, and when I realize I didn't it's often upsetting. I guess I dream about what I wish I'd said to someone a lot.
I think they mean something. I think they give us something we are not getting in our every day life. If we need humor we have a funny dream. If life has been going too good we might have a nightmare...we get the things that we do not allow our minds to think. Basically our subconscious is just dying to get out and that's its only way...
The definitely mean something. I have deja vu from dreams all the time.
As a co-founder of this awesome website - your dream might be reflecting what you are doing - about to perform for a worldwide audience (as in developing the website) and you're still working out how to make everything work so as to give a brilliant performance!
I do believe that dreams actually mean something but it's is up to you to interpret them. If you look at the symbolism you might be very culturally informed and learn something new, which is, of course, always good. Still dreams are personal. Who will able to find some meaning in them but you?
Whenever I have a dream in which any given person become a blue bird with a yellow chest I'll reassured and confident, for I KNOW something good is bound to happen.
Also, I believe dreams are a really beautiful collage of your day. A combination of images and thought. Things you denied yourself to have thought. Though you know you did. The music you heard. That strange feeling you had you simply couldn't explain yourself. It is all there, at least for me (I guess that's what makes this so difficult to discuss. Dreams are way too personal. What you make out of them is, too).
I also manipulate my dreams. (I am one of those who claim to be writers but actually has no talent at all for it so it ends up equaling to nothing.) I start this story though I am not awake and it grown on it's own, which I believe to evidence enough that dreams are not just random sequences of happiness, terror or down right ???
Dreams come from thoughts floating around in our heads... of which there are way more than we realize at once. In waking consciousness, these thoughts get filtered depending on what we choose to focus on. But while dreaming, they do get thrown out randomly. That does not mean that they are meaningless though...If there's a thought in your brain, there must be a reason you are concerned about it right?
I've done some hardcore dream interpretation in my time, and I've found that analyzing my dreams just as I wake up from them can tell much more truth than any dream book could say. Its about you, its in your head, its how you think about yourself and others and the world.
I dream almost every night. The dreams are generally random and can involve anything from going shopping to planes crashing around my house. With this, I certainly hope that the dreams do not actually mean anything. I have looked at various dream books and cannot find what a crashing airplane would mean. My husband says I get very restless some nights and I believe this is when I am in a pretty intense dream.
All that matters is what we pay attention to. I think dreams are particularly important because they react, and they change, according to what we pay attention to, unlike real life. In this sense, dreams "mean something" because, if we're paying attention to our fear of foot pedals, for example, it becomes "an issue" and that can be a bit of a clue about "ourselves." Whatever the heck that means.
The best I have to offer is this quote:
"The mind and the thought of man sometimes discover truths, and from this thought and discovery signs and results are produced. This thought has a foundation. But many things come to the mind of man which are like the waves of the sea of imaginations; they have no fruit, and no result comes from them. In the same way, man sees in the world of sleep a vision which becomes exactly realized; at another time, he sees a dream which has absolutely no result.
"What we mean is that this state, which we call the converse and communications of spirits, is of two kinds: one is simply imaginary, and the other is like the visions which are mentioned in the Holy Book, such as the revelations of St. John and Isaiah and the meeting of Christ with Moses and Elias. These are real, and produce wonderful effects in the minds and thoughts of men, and cause their hearts to be attracted."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 252)
I don't dream much, but I've learn in Basic Psychology, that humans dream every time one fall asleep. I can remember being in the Army especially during basic training I've dream of the consequence of mastering critical tasks. An each moment where sleep is necessary my dreams seems to be motivated by critical task. What is the meaning of these dream?
It's too funny to me that you mention LOST and dreams in the same posting TODAY for me. I watched some of season 4 last night, right before bed and my dreams were filled with the notion that my psyche was time traveling with Daniel Faraday. Therefore I believe that the scientific idea that our dreams are reflections of our daily lives, somehow compressed into these new worlds within our dreams. BUT I also believe that dreams can also be very powerful symbols of something else entirely. My brother is 8 years older than me, which means that for 8 years of his life we wouldn't/shouldn't share any memories. Now, to add to this when I was 5 and younger I would have very vivid dreams that seemed like memories, but they weren't really mine. Later in life, when I told him about these dreams he told me they were memories of his, that the details were definitely parts of his childhood. I don't know what to think of that.
I spent most of my childhood dreaming about nuclear war in one fashion or another - in one dream I remember hiding behind a coke machine to get away from the blast. Just last month I had my first nuclear war dream in years - I was much less afraid as an adult - I merely said "If there is going to a nuclear war in three days (I knew for some reason it was in three days) then why am I going to work?"
The few dreams I have mentioned to soul mate - he just stares at me and shakes his head a little.
I do not know if dreams mean anything or not but really I hope mine or most of mine are just that - dreams
Dreams are our way of telling ourselves what we value. They are our way of exploring our desires. They are the metaphors that we require to make the spiritual aspects of the world around us physical. We understand the physical, whereas the spiritual we feel, but do not know for certain.
Dreams are just as important as dreams in Lost; there's meaning behind having dreams about _______________ dying in many different ways.
I think most dreams won't be as literal and prophetic as _________'s dreams, but it can hint towards something literal in our lives. It can help us solve problems or bring more light into a situation that may come our way. in some cases, maybe it's just a way to recap your day; a visual diary hidden among trains, marshmallow piles, and organ playing.
As a former psych major, I think that dreams definitely mean something! They can be premonitions, or it can be how you figure out answers to questions that you didn't know you had, or something you have been agonizing over for a while. Although I differ from Freud in that I don't believe that they all have a sexual meaning, but dreams always mean something. I have 3 or 4 dream journals to help decode some of my dreams. Help me understand what my unconscious is trying to tell me.
I recently dreamt the moon exploded. A huge giant full moon. Blown to bits. It was terrifying and exciting and action-packed. Very Star Wars My dreams often involve fighting and struggling, in a fantasy/sci-fi realm. I think I just crave change. Big, big, big change. And I think dreams like this are meant to be a wake-up call about feelings and desires we are repressing.
I think that dreams are very important. I can't really explain why but it's something that I very strongly believe. All my life I have dreamed very vividly and I often dream about something before it happens. There are people in my life today that I used to dream about as a child although I didn't know them until I was an adult.
"Inner Work" is a really good book that has a part about dreams. I like what it has to say.
I think God (the spiritual realm) or whatever higher power or moral code you believe in communicates through our dreams.
It's much more complicated and not literal at all. READ Inner Work - it's great! And it's a quick read.
I don't think I'm like most people, but I very rarely dream; maybe once or twice every few months (I know the argument, that I just don't remember them, but I really really think I just never dream.) When one of these rare occurrences does happen, though, it's almost like an acid trip without the colors and it usually deals with something I've experienced lately. A lot of times it definitely helps me out with everyday situations. So yes, my strange and scarce dreams typically mean something. God only knows what though.
I think that our dreams are an imaginative reflection of our day to day lives. For example, we might dream about being chased...but if you look back at who's chasing us, it's probably just going to be yourself (like your running away from a problem.) Remembering yours dreams is very important because it's our subconscious trying to deliver us important messages about ourselves.
I have two types of dreams. In one type I take the place of a character in a book, movie, or TV show (they're always fun). Then there are those times when I dream about people I know. Normally the events of the dream aren't that important and don't happen in real life. Who is in the dream, though, can be significant and helpful in figuring out my true thoughts and feelings. Random tidbit: when I was younger I had this terrifying dream about a turkey. I only remember bits and pieces of it but that nightmare will always hunt me.
my dreams tend to be things I wish were real, and usually include random things from my day, like the actor from a movie I watched or something.
I don't think dreams are "totally" random, but I don't think the mean anything of importance.
@Shusso I was thinking about the same question just yesterday. My most memorable and colourful dream would be when I discovered flying and the secret of how to fly was to "will it". I finally know what this dream means.. I can fly if I Will it.
So ya i think dreams do mean something and can be random at the same time..
Dreams must have some sort of meaning or relation to actual life, or subconscious life. Whether they have Meaning with a capital M, as in can tell the future, or anything like that, I don't know. What is strange to me is that so much of our dreaming our conscious mind never actually becomes aware of. What is it that I spend my nights thinking about?
Part of what makes me believe the dreams are not just random is that there are several places that I frequent in my dreams and they often correspond to actual places that have meaning for me, even though visually they don't look the same.
I believe that some dreams can be totally random, however I also think God uses our dreams to communicate with us. From my experience, when I follow advice that applies to a particular situation, things always work out for the better and I truly believe that is God speaking. The first and second chapters of the book of Matthew speak specifically about dreams, and how God uses his angels to speak to Joseph. Check it out :-)
sometimes they take care of unfinished business. but other times, they are just bits of what I was thinking before sleeping (like flaber says below). I actually had a dream last night full of pregnancies: mine (not real), my cousins' (very real) and it made sense, because there was lots of conversation about it yesterday. who knows. but the fun thing is, if I'm working on a design project and I'm stressed about it/stuck, sometimes I design in my dreams! like I'll fall asleep trying to figure out a solution, and then wake up in the middle of a dream where I'm figuring out a new approach. and THAT'S the way to multi-task :)
Yeah, for me they've always reflected what happened during my day or what I thought about before I fell asleep. There's been a few times when I've actually learned a few things, or when something that happened in my dream made me want to change or do something the next day. The idea has always kind of fascinated me though.. I think dreams can be interpreted many different ways. There's never just one way.
For one thing, Lost was a rerun last night. One of two that will happen this season so that the show will make it to may sweeps. haha.
Anyways, dreams.
I think there are two ways to explain dreams and I think they are both true. 1) Dreams are you're brains short term memory area getting rid of all the memories you collected in a day that you don't need. That's why our dreams often reflect our lives or things we did during the day. 2) Dreams are our subconscious trying to tell us something. Something our consciousness won't or can't let us see or understand.
I'm awake or I'm asleep,that's bodytalk.Think of our spiritual side,that is not affected by time or space,sleep is work and play.God embeded sleep with a precious gem...DeJaVue! for those of us lucky enough to inhale this perfume,we have a vivid dream,remember details and then promise it happens again exactly in this life of our body.Time does not exist as we may think.And Now you Know the Rest Of the Story...
Dreams are us in another state of being, detached from this physical world and living in another. Only since we exist in 3D here, we can't really interpret that state properly, so it seems all strange and messy.
Seems to be a correlation between my mental/emotional state at the time I fall asleep and the type of dreams I have that night. So I don't think they are random. If I argue someone earlier that day, I may be defending myself from violent, limbless killers (or I watched Lord of the Rings). If I am feeling more calm and peaceful one night, I am into all kinds of fun in REM like talking to animals, flying, laughing at the fact that I can fly, bionic running what have you. I think we can learn from our dreams if we can make the correlation, which can give them meaning. Though not sure what hammerhead shark robots that turn into vacuums are trying to teach me.
@jenna476b As long as it's a comfy chair, that sounds like a pretty sweet deal
I'm not sure, i keep having these dreams about flying.. like without an airplane, and its about as realistic as a dream about flying can be, i mean i can feel the wind in my hair and my body sorta knows what to do (if that makes sense :/) maybe dreams are our body's way of coping with our burdensome lives... or maybe i can fly >:D
I think they are a mixture of all of the things you recently experienced because i can usually make a connection with what my dream had to do with with real life, and if i can't i tell someone my dream and they make me realize how it was probably a subconscious thing that had to do with
dreams are weird and cool
I've always been a believer that our dreams reflect what our mind either couldn't work out or didn't finish working out while we were previously conscious.
And don't worry..LOST was a repeat last night.
ok first: i loved that video! what a great work of art! second: who knows if dreams mean anything? i like to think that the good dreams do...and the bad ones i just disregard. i live in my own little world. in my own little corner. in my own little chair. ha.
I fear dreams! I heard that if you drink atleast one glass of water before bed you won't dream. I drink a glass of water ever night before bed.(It's mental I'm sure :)) I feel like if I dream then I don't rest.
I have always had the mindset that dreams do mean something so when I have a bad one (like something to do with death or losing someone) I feel like it will happen in real life. That's how I became fearful of dreams. I didn't want to believe that any of those things would happen to me.
All these explainations are beautiful and true in a lot of ways but who really knows if they actually mean something. Maybe it is just a way for the mind to express creativity that we as human beings can't handle in real life.
Both. They mean something in that they represent your thoughts; they are random because they take our thoughts and twist them together.
I do believe that dreams have a definite power for the individual psyche. I very often dream lucidly (can control the dream), and I find that I conquer most of my fears in my dreams. For example: I used to have a recurring Actor's Nightmare (being naked on stage without memorizing your lines). One night I had the dream, but lucidly, and in the middle of the dream, I made the audience stop laughing, and I stopped being consumed by fear and started improvising my lines. After that, I never had the dream again, and my real-life stage fright lessened considerably.
I also dream that I'm floating a lot. Like, every night. And sometimes I have dreams so clear that I get mad at people for what they did in my dream, until they explain to me that it was a dream.
So while I'm not necessarily into dream diaries or symbols, I have to say that dreams have always had a significant impact on my waking life.
Basically I think they do mean something. Even if it's just that your brain is trying to sort through things and make some sort of order out of whatever you've experienced in waking life. I dreamed last night that I got to work and one of my co-workers had organized this whole elaborate party with games and decorations and treats, all to celebrate President's Day. It's not President's Day. And she's not particularly into President's Day. Nor am I. But I'm sure it meant something.
the Sub-c is do covered over with all kinds of spiritual, emotional noise that it decides to speak loudest in Dreams. And yes, I have no problem believing that God decides to do the same, knowing full well that it is during this same space of "quiet" that we will hear the most.
As for your pedals...sounds like you got a lot going on in your world and aren't exactly sure how to make the music needed to pull it all off:)
@KarmaKitty Dreams' predictive nature is an excellent observation, dear writer. Sometimes our subconscious is smarter than our waking being. Some refer to this as "echoes of future memories". Some also say that these precognitions are the result of communication with spirits/angels/etc., warning us in our dormant state of coming events and/or unknowable truths. I can tell you that both are partially true. Not all which is real is true, nor is all the unreal untrue, dear writer.
@KarmaKitty Very well put. God comforts people with dreams, whether they mean anything or not. It isn't wise to pass them off as random firings of neurons without some sort of pondering or study. Not every dream is a prophecy or a sign, but some are.
definitely think that dreams mean something. sometimes it's just a review of what you'd seen throughout the day before. other times it's your subconscious shouting messages to you. i always analyze my strangest dreams and they always match up with how i'm really feeling.
@Chance558 We must be sisters since our dreams are so alike...though I have never dreamed of cleaning a kitchen though there was this one time where I dreamt that I was organizing a library of rare books and I kept asking my sister for the books - I of course was talking in my sleep so my sister decided to ask me which books which confused me because she should have known which books..it amused her very much...
I think dreams are many things - they are a way to settle our minds when we are worried, show us things that we might not have noticed in our time awake, a survival mechanism to calm us and feed us when the rest of the world seems out of touch, they can also be a window into past life and they can just be a random sampling of images from movies, events and conversations that you had. I dreamt that other night that my sister and I had sat down to write a horror story to sell to Hollywood so that we could get the money to save our grandfathers house from being sold. As soon as I woke up I wrote the whole plot line and basic story down, to save it and remember it so that one day maybe I will write that story. There have been dreams though that were predictive - there was the time I was 12 when my best friend came to spend the night and the night before she did I dreamt that we had gone to the horse stables beside my apartment bldg. to watch the horses and riders from the balcony, in my dream there was one other woman there and she turned to me and told me not to trust my friend and etched into the wood was a snake. So the next night came and we actually did go to watch the horses, everything was like in my dream even the lady standing there (only thing missing was the snake etched into the wood) - I should have paid attention to my dream, but I didn't. I trusted her with my secrets and she turned around and told everyone in the school what I had trusted her with. There were some bad things said and I became an outcast. I should have paid attention to my dream. Dreams like that don't come often.
I dream in vivid colors, where I can see, smell feel and hear everything, and I have been known to talk in my sleep which can freak my sister out at times or she will use this as an opportunity to talk to me in my sleep which usually wakes me up cranky because it doesn't make sense to me. I think I even once sang in my sleep. There have been the rare occasions where my dreams took on a kind of colored overtone, like a photograph with muted colors that seems to have a yellow or blue cast to it - I think those dreams were of past lives (if anyone believes in them) I can't say what happened in those dreams but the feelings in them were different, the context deeper and there was a knowing that most of my dreams don't have. Maybe it is not our mind that dreams but our soul.
My favorite dreams though are the one where I fly, where I feel the air beneath me and the world is moving past as I gather speed and see new things. I wish I had those a little bit more often.
Actually, both! Say you watched a creepy CSI episode before falling asleep. It disturbed something in your subconscious (maybe fear of death?). Your mind tries to work it out and you have a bizarre dream. So the dream itself may be random but the message it's trying to impart is not. You just have to figure it out. Just my opinion, but to me your dream means a lot of folks are looking to you for x (solutions, answers, entertainment, whatever) and you're feeling a bit overwhelmed from lack of sleep and trying to do too much. Hope you're able to take a break and be kind to yourself. Remember you have to put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others.
Ah, yes, dear reader. I too have much knowledge on this subject. Adam Duritz sang, "If dreams are like movies, them memories are films about ghosts."
To illustrate, I once saw a very gifted puppeteer perform an entire production using nothing but kitchen utensils. No, this wasn't a dream, I'm illustrating the point. A dream communicates a poignant message within your unconscious psyche using whatever junk is laying around...in this case, the random thougths, symbols, and recent memories. The only important part of a dream, let me assure you, is the message, not the medium. The raw emotion which the little disjunct production evokes. Your REM time is used as a self-counseling session for sorting out the cluttered synapses. In your example, dear writer, you are obviously working through the stress of launching SP and the fear of failure related to the same. You assimilate the thought of playing a pipe-organ (this was sitting around in your short term memory for some reason) to play-out the simple theatrics of performance fear and failure. The reason symbols are so important in dream study is that they represent a single, simple raw emotion. Evocative in a utilitarian sense. But again, the symbols themselves are benign...the emotions they convey are paramount. Dreams are meaningful skits performed by random imaginary utensils.
And by the by...the egg beater was a total douchebag...
I think it's a mix of things. Sometimes it's random, sometimes your brain is trying to reconcile events and clean out its closet, and on rare occasions they can be predictive. Or at least seem to be predictive. I have very vivid dreams, and often they seem to be trying to tell me something... but if I can't figure out what they're trying to tell me, what's the point?
Whenever I'm stressed I dream about my childhood horse, who I loved very much and still miss terribly. It's as real as anything. And I only see her when I'm stressed and anxious. I think that even though she passed away, her soul is still somehow entwined with mine. She knows when I need her, and so she shows up in my dreams. I'm sure there are a million ways to explain this scientifically, and maybe those scientists are right, but the explanation I prefer is that somehow and in some form she's still there for me. And that gives me hope that maybe there is something out there in the Great Beyond after all.
I have extremely lucid and realistic dreams; i can touch, feel, smell, hurt, taste, i dream in vivid colors and alot of times I'll visit the same places i've already been to before or my dreams will seem so real to me that sometimes i have a hard time figuring out if something already happened or not. I once dreamt that i had cleaned my kitchen while talking on the phone to my mom, when i woke up in the morning i felt relieved that when i went downstairs i'd see a clean kitchen and then it was still dirty, i was so shocked! at first i thought someone had messed it up! buuuut then i realized i had just dreamt it, lol. I personally love dreaming and i do believe they mean something to some extent; we cant possibly understand every aspect of our minds and why we are the way we are. Why do we think silent thoughts, how is it i can hear my voice inside my head? where do these images of worlds i've never read or heard about come from, who are the people that walk up to me in my dreams and say im the dream? Of course i can give it all a scientific explanation, but sometimes i wonder if there isnt just more to it. I like the idea that dreams can be a form that connects us to a different world; a place where our spirit leaves for the night and maybe goes on to interact in other dreams with other spirits and people around the world. Trippy, i know lol
So, i wouldnt say dreams are meaningless. It's your mind and spirits way of making you aware of things you might not have noticed, things you might have forgotten or are worried about but wont admit to it and buried fears. They can be influenced of course by the people and shows you watch around you ( i once had a dream a zombie was chasing me through a cherry blossom field, while all the people i loved turned to me to say goodbye and float away on gold specks of dust; very strange. Also the zombie had a flame-thrower...really?! hehe of course i had just watched 28 days later the week before) so of course you have your random dreams but i like to think that a good percentage of dreams have meanings that relate to you and are a way for your spirit to relax after a hard day of the real world. :)
I don't think they're TOTALLY random--but they have some random features. I think dreams are sort of like Alice's adventures--current concerns in bizzaro world. They are meaningful (as in, wow, I must be really concerned about that mole on my mom's neck, since I was attacked and eaten by one in my dream) but are also in the world of electric impulses in the brain, which serves as an ersatz movie projector. The brain, having no opposable thumbs, can inexplicably splice together unrelated bits of film, and show us a really weird version of our experience.
On the other hand, I think we've all had that dream that portends an event down the road, which is a whole different thing--that tuned in to a different channel, pay attention kind of thing...
I think dreams are random. In my experience, any dream that I've wanted to have meaning or have wanted to come true....never does. I think it's a way for your brain to process everything it has taken in throughout the course of the day as I've noticed a lot of things that happen to me during a day are featured in my dreams. I don't think there are any "hidden messages" in dreams, or any validity to the dream books that tell you what certain symbols mean. But yeah, dreams are weird.
I think dreams are some kind of primitive, sometimes preverbal, awareness that is always going on but we're not aware of it while our conscious minds are functioning. Sometimes they relate to actual events, sometimes not. Sometimes they tap into the collective consciousness, and sometimes they are as meaningless as junk mail. If you lean that way, they can be meaningful.
I think dreams are an oppourtunity to re-group your thoughts. It could be something that's bothering you, an aspiration you have, an idea, leftover emotions from an experience, intuitive thoughts- anything and everything that you can't organize, fully comprehend or think about "truly"in your waking life.
I tend to agree with a lot of the posters. It is unfinished business from our waking lives. On the flip side of that, I know people that have dreams that come true. An acquaintance of mine has dreams where she is attending a funeral (but can never see who has passed). Every time she dreams that, the following day we find out someone we knew died. Isn't that the creepiest thing ever?!
It's hard to decipher what our dreams mean. Being a child who had night terrors, I am baffled of the unfinished business I needed to finish in my waking life when I was 8, and why in the world it would have been that scary. But, the neat thing was I was taught to control major aspects of my dreams to some extent. For example, if I was being chased in a room I couldn't escape, I learned to just will a door that would just be there. I still do that to this day. It's kinda fun :)
Dreams are the unfinished business of our waking lives. But the scene, the subject matter and the players seem to be on random shuffle, so I think the individual components rarely if ever align to tell a complete, rational, logical story. I know many people work hard to write down and decipher their dreams. Although I'm sure dreams mean something, I prefer to let them remain hazy, troubling, hysterical or plain old bizarre. Even in our well-ordered, scientifically explained existence, the seemingly random Salvador Dali-ness of our life deserves to have its place too. I let it live in my dreams.
I can't say this for a certainty because if I do dream then I (very) rarely remember them. Sleep and I have issues, you see.
Here's a theory I like. The dream is similar to the recycle bin, except that it empties itself, timed upon your sleep patterns and REM cycles. Your mind takes an inventory of info that it's taken in during your last waking hours. If files that data that you'll need and dumps the rest.
Then again, I can't discount Mr. Sandman (and his magic beam). You know...like from the song of the same name, sung by many including the Andrew Sisters and The Chordettes. In fact, I like this the best of all. Seriously.
But the bottomline remains the same. Yes, they do mean something. And yet in some way random because they are not the same way twice.
i reckon they mean something. i think its funny how sometimes something you did or saw during the day somehow manages to present itself in your dream..
Dreams are personal only to the dreamer. I started keeping a dream diary last year and was amazed at the results. At first my dreams trickled through but I persisted and got better at recall. I have have had dreams, that I believe were lessons from my spirit guide, I would never have remembered if it hadn't been for keeping a journal.
Robert Moss is the best source of information on this subject and I highly recommend his books. A search on google will quickly find many articles about Moss and radio interviews aplenty. Go for it!
i believe sometimes dreams are often what we think about during the day in some way shape or form. and even if they seem random i still feel there's reason for it. whether it be something we're totally conscious of or not, i think all dreams relate in someway to our lives.
dreams are amazing. what a great way to experience creativity and intrigue then what your mind decides to show you.
From experience, my dreams are usually about the people I've interacted with, or events that I became involved in recently. Like for example, tonight I'm in a party with friends, celebrating a birthday or something. I'd most likely dream about a continuation of that scenario, or a parallel scene - same location, same set up, same people, but different situation. It's funny in a way.
I don't know about interpreting dreams, so I don't know what my dreams actually mean. I just would like to share, Filipinos have this weird superstition that when you dream about your teeth falling off, it means death of someone close to you. It doesn't make any sense to me, but from what I've read/heard, it's true most of the time. I don't know how to explain that. Some people also say that what you dream about is actually the opposite of what is bound to happen in reality. If it's true, then it majorly sucks for me because I once (or twice) dreamt that the guy I really like and I were kissing. Do you have any cultural beliefs/superstitions about dreams?
Have you guys had dreams wherein in that dream, you were wishing that it isn't a dream? Weird, right? I've had a couple of those.
i once had a dream where i just stood confused at the beginning of the dream after something totally inexplicable had happened, then, towards the end of the dream a very complex plot unravelled, making me understand the reason behind that odd scene in the beginning... like a suspence movie.
the story included time travelling: in the beginning scene i was facing my future self (not understanding why he was acting the way he was) and at the end of the dream i was that guy, doing that thing, facing my past self, thus understanding why i am doing what i am doing, plus, seeing the puzzled face on my past self.
my question is: how on earth can someone trick himself like this in a dream? i guess i dream the way the writers of LOST write... first go ahead with a super confusing plot, take care of the explanation later :P
The good news: LOST was not missed tonight because it was just a repeat episode.
The awesome news: I hope dreams mean something; I really enjoy trying to dissect dreams.
Dreams are random. but most of them mean something. In my case, I am a dedicated Sleeper who's sleep cycle is of 9 hours. Not proud of it, but im so good at it, that i can continue the previous dream if the i wake up in the middle of my sleep.
I remember that i dream almost every night (or whenever i can nod off) I also remember having multiple dreams. Short dreams, long dreams. Some dreams just leave an impression of one feeling that i felt happy, excited, sad, afraid, or concerned. But not all the times i could recall the whole dream.
Then there are dreams that i remember to the last detail - dialogues, background, colors. In many cases I even have an idea, that if somebody said something or did something, what was the background behind that.
Coming back to, if they actually mean something... In my case i strongly believe that they do. My regular dreams reflects my current life. Whatever phase I go through, it reflects in my dreams. Some dreams give hints about things happening around you. These dreams can help you solve certain problems or make certain decisions. The main problem with such dreams is that most of us completely forget the dream.
Some dreams tells you about the future. And most of such dreams are forgotten and I believe, you only recall them as 'de ja vu'
Many dreams reflects your inner desires and fantasies. They can be related to a passion, a hobby, a wish, something that has inspired you in real life or in a movie or a book(fiction). You see yourself flying, in an absurd environment, experience underwater situations. For example, I do not know how to drive, but i have found myself driving multiple vehicle in my dreams with ease. I do not know swimming, and i have experienced scuba diving.
I think I still got a lot to talk on the subject. but let's see What other people have to say about this.
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I enjoy a bizarre plethora of odd dreams, positive and scary.
For example, one night I dreamt I was hanging out with Amy Winehouse before her concert in Yugoslavia or something. Then I was sitting on the grass, watching the show. Amy was wearing like the meaty ribs of a cow like an armour, and was singing the sweetest songs. Then she had a skinned jaguar released into the crowd, and the rest of the show consisted of her chasing this skinned jaguar around the grass amphitheatre, like performance art.
I am a really happy person, with no real deep-down troubles, so who knows what that was about.
On the flip-side I have had more than five prophetic dreams, where strange things have happened that have actually occurred the next day, like finding a lost puppy, looking at his name tag for the owner's name, then calling the owner to say "Your dog's here, come pick him up". Then the next day when I got home from work, the same thing happened - my flatmate found a lost dog, read the name tag, called the owners saying "I've got your dog here, come get him".
Cool huh?
I think they tend to be a mix of observations, subconscious/conscious thoughts, emotions, goals, wishes, fears...
They certainly are interesting.
what do you think this one is dreaming about?
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Dreams, I think, are your worries, hopes and thoughts during the day meshed together in a short film played in your mind. I definitely feel though that a spirital connection is there when one is dreaming, just like when your meditating, in saying this I think your dreams have meaning to you whether it was ridiculous or not because dreams play on every thought or feeling encompassing your mind whether your conscious of it or not. If given a lot of thought you could probably take apart a dream you remember and analyze it peice by peice and it would make sense to you in some way. My nightmares were continuous as a little kid from age 6-9. I would have them almost every night and at a point I feared sleep, but when looking back now, made sense to me now as to why I had them. At that age my parents were going through very very rough times with each other and would often fight verbally and physically in front of me until my father was incarcerated. Oddly enough 90% of my nightmares involved my parents in them, I remember some of the dreams involved them getting hurt and some others, them hurting me. And I hated all my nightmares with a passion unparelled. I guess I was just playing out my fears in my dreams I was forced to hide as a child. But yeah in a nutshell dreams definitely have a deeper meaning their definitely not random.
I definitely think that dreams do mean something; our subconscious is a really powerful part of our mind, although I have to accept sometimes dreams can get really strange and although sometimes they might seem random Iâm sure they have some kind of explanation. I think that through dreams our subconscious is trying to tell us whatâs on our minds at a certain moment of our lives.
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I think that the dreams you remember mean something.
But the question is, how do we know what? :)