Dreams

[Skipadeedoodah]

What is your take on dreams? Do you put any stock into interpreting them to figure out what your subconscious is trying to tell you? Or do you think they're your brains way of recycling all the extra crap stored in there from the day and have no meaning at all? Do you think anything is to be said for recurring dreams, or recurring themes in dreams? What about patterns in dreaming (i.e. having several dreams you can remember fairly well every night for years and then suddenly not remembering having any dreams - or vice versa). What are your thoughts on the presence of nightmares or distressing dreams?

Kind of random - I know - but I had a bad dream and I'm scared to go back to sleep so this is how I'm spending my time - dragging you all down with me.

Discuss.

 

[TropicThunder]

I stopped trying to interpret any meaning into my dreams because they happen all the time and they are always so random. I used to dream alot when I was a kid and then it ceased when I became a teenager. When I was 20, and I got pregnant, I started dreaming nearly every night. And it was always the wierdest combination of things ie- dreaming of people I knew in Invermere, but being back in my hometown in the house that I grew up in. I would dream of people I didn't know, and I'd even dreamed about my own death once or twice. That was the wierdest feeling of all.

I still dream almost nightly, at least twice a week. I've also been known to walk in my sleep, and I cry alot if I'm having bad nightmares.

But I don't try to find any sort of deeper meaning to them. I think its just my imagination running rampant. NyQuil helps.

 

[Capnmad]

Sorry you had a bad one, darlin'... My thoughts on the topic vary. I tend to think there are probably at least some archetypes that hold virtually across the board with regard to meaning, but I'll be damned if I know what they are or who precisely would know.

I don't think every dream has meaning nor should one necessarily look for such in every dream, but seeing as how dreams rejigger old data in new ways, it can behoove one to give it some thought. Rarely did a bad thing come from giving something a look from another angle.

For my money, I consider first whether the dream had any emotional impact on me, and then I unpack the whys and wherefores. If it moves me emotionally in some way, I often find an underlying message. Maybe it's something I've known and just needed amplification, maybe it's something I've ignored or missed, but it's always something that's already been there for a time. Nothing's ever new, except in the way it's presented -- I guess I leave the prophecy to Edgar Cayce.

If it didn't have an emotional impact, I usually treat it as a curiosity -- like the other day when I had the supremely stupid dream with almost zero content except the feeling of being awake.

 

[texastickler]

Hey Lima Bean. I can tell you that I have had a few weird dreams in my lifetime. I think dreams can be made to have meaning if we want them too. I took a course on dream interpretation when I was younger. A lot of it is psychological. I don't mean crazy just that we get it in our head that there is some hidden message embedded in the dream itself. There have been casses where dreams have come to fruition. I had a dream that my brother had died of a heart attack then a few day later my dad had one. Is it coincidence? Not sure but I know that 90% of dreams are really our subconscious working overtime during REM sleep. I do believe you have not a thing to worry about sweetie. As a side note, we remember about 2% of all our dreams in a lifetime. Sorry you had a bad dream and I hope you don't have it again.

 

[LD_Tickler]

Personally, I think sometimes your dreams do have meaning, in that they reflect your stress level, anxieties, hopes. I also believe this isn't the case all the time, sometimes your dreams are just random images conjured up by whatever, who knows.

I also definitely don't believe that there's some kind of sysetmic, cross-individual set of dream symbols, like a ship, for example, would mean something in particular to everyone. Nonsense, everyone has different associations. If a ship has some symbolic meaning in your dream, there's no reason to think another person has the same meaning attached to it.

 

[mysterion]

I think dreams are more of an extention of your waking state, at least they are for me. I stopped having any nightmares of any kind about a year ago, mostly because I tend to stay lucid while dreaming.Also my dreams aren't crazy and incoherant like most other people I know.Instead, I dream I'm wandering old neighborhoods, entering former houses I used to live in, only to find strange people sleeping in my old bedrooms.Quite a trip.

 

[milagros317]

Dreams are a product of your mind, made while you're not in conscious control. Thus they can sometimes tell you something about yourself.

 

[Soda Bobinski]

Kind of random - I know - but I had a bad dream and I'm scared to go back to sleep so this is how I'm spending my time ...

Was the dream bad because I wasn't in this one?

Yeah , I wouldn't wanna go back to sleep , either , if yours truly wasn't paradin' around yer head during slumbertime.

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

Was the dream bad because I wasn't in this one?

Yeah , I wouldn't wanna go back to sleep , either , if yours truly wasn't paradin' around yer head during slumbertime.

Those are my fav dreams

 

[Ocean]

What is your take on dreams? Do you put any stock into interpreting them to figure out what your subconscious is trying to tell you? Or do you think they're your brains way of recycling all the extra crap stored in there from the day and have no meaning at all?

I think it varies -- possibly.

I am skeptical of everything, yet -- with the things I have seen happen in my life, I am open to all possibilities.

Some dreams I believe are nothing other than random data following the stream of brain patterns.

However some dreams I believe are different. My family for instance, or at least with my father, and with myself, have premonitions and dream things that later come true -- things like accidents. I know it sounds far fetched, and yes -- the possibility exists that it could be nothing more than eerie coincidence, however the experience leaves me believing that there may be more to dreams than meets the (third) eye.

Good thread by the way.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Dreams are a product of your mind, made while you're not in conscious control. Thus they can sometimes tell you something about yourself.

They're a playground for your fears- the ones that you consciously, or subconsciously suppress. I have dreams where I'm being chased by all kinds of monsters.

I also think, though, that they're a playground for your desires...

 

[socktickler86]

If my brain is trying to tell me something through my dreams, talk about lost in translation...

 

[Ocean]

Dreams are a product of your mind, made while you're not in conscious control.

Not completely true.

See lucid dreams.

 

[mysterion]

Dreams are a product of your mind, made while you're not in conscious control.

Not completely true.

See lucid dreams.

So true. When you're in dream state and lucid, you are in complete conscious control.
You are in every sense of the word "Superman"

 

[chicago]

It depends on the dream, what happens, who's in it, and how it makes me feel. For the most part, I don't remember my dreams, so if I do and it's particularly interesting, I might wonder at what it could mean, maybe look up dream interpretation shit online. For the most part though, I tend to dreams don't really mean anything.

 

[love feet]

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My subconscious is so strange!!!.