Do dreams have meaning to you?

[z1ggy]

I have always wondered if your dreams are things from our subconsious that are coded via dreams to tell us things we may not realize or understand about ourselves or the lives we lead. But sometimes I really just question that whole physc. and just think they are generated from things I do day to day. But lately I have been having a lot of things on my plate and I noticed my dreams became increasing strange, violent or just make no sense to me at all. I have been keeping a log of them the past few weeks once I wake up in the morning...Lasts nights was esp. weird and well I am def. starting to freak myself out a little.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I think its f@cking crazy that we dream at all. Think about it, when we sleep we basically are transported to a different world? Also we live on a dirt ball that floats in space.

 

[j00fek]

i had dreams but they got dashed by unemployment, now im employed again so they are back on............... heh

 

[nageov3t]

I had a dream about the WTC being bombed and collapsing the day before 9/11, but even broken clocks are right twice a day.

dreaming every night for our entire conscious lives, there's bound to be odd coincidences on occasion, but by and large I think dreams are pretty much meaningless fragments of our day and memories and inner turmoils.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I think the quality and content of our dreams is related to our state of mind and the things we have experienced recently. When I'm worried about something, I usually dream about it. Very often I see people and places that I have seen recently pop up in often strange combination, sometimes mixed in with people and places from the distant past. I have never learned something about myself through a dream that I didn't already know. Sometimes it's fun connecting what I see in a dream with its probable source in my real life, but my very ability to do that reveals that I was well aware of whatever it was before I even dreamed it. I don't really think that they are mysterious secret windows into our inner consciousness or anything like that.

 

[91TTZ]

I think it's our brains running Defrag at night.

 

[MattCo]

I usually have normal dreams but, with being outsourced rapidly approaching, they have turned pretty nitemarish lately.

 

[Juddog]

I use my dreams as training grounds for when I die.

 

[TallBill]

I have all sorts of dreams, that are extraordinarily vivid. I've had periods of time when I had lucid dreams, I've had a period in my life where I saw myself die nightly. Lately, I've been dreaming about very plausible things that could actually happen in my daily life. I wake up and am very confused about whether someone actually emailed me about something, or if I actually did something.

 

[nanette1985]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
I think it's our brains running Defrag at night.

Right. One of my therapists calls it Mental Housecleaning. That makes a lot of sense.

 

[n7]

Nope.

 

[z1ggy]

What I just dont get is how some of the things I dream of come from my life..so therefore I take them as metaphors for things happening. Like last night I dreamt these people were after me who were like bugs..they had bug bodies but a human head, and then they bit me and I turned into one. I had pinchers and a creepy bug body and everything...like wtfff

 

[MotF Bane]

I was expecting an Arcadio thread.

 

[SonnyDaze]

I'm only interested in crushing dreams.

 

[edro]

They definitely contain your desires, but they can also contain your fears.

You can find meaning in anything.

 

[Casawi]

I would have to say they are meaningful or else why I dream stuff that actually happens in the future ... deja-vus I guess. So I guess my final answer would be some of them are meaningful for sure.

 

[Juddog]

Lucid Dreaming is one of the best things in my life I have ever learned. The way I figure, I spend about a third of my life sleeping, so why not gain something from it? The more you work at lucid dreaming, the more rewarding it can be. I have even developed "dream powers" where I can break through bricks / metal with my bare hands, walk around like a ghost (including walking through walls), communicate telepathically with people, and create / destroy matter using my mind. When I'm dreaming it feels like I am a hundred times smarter than I am normally, and when I wake up it's like I'm being limited again.

Through my dreams I have calculated out answers to problems that were plaguing me, astral traveled around my city / state (I would test my speed and as I worked on it was able to zip from one city to another several hundred miles away in less than a second via flying), and have gained all sorts of nifty abilities. It's really fun and highly recommended.

 

[lxskllr]

I never remember my dreams. I have to go to bed with nicotine to have lucid dreams, but when I do, they're spectacular :^)

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I had a dream about the WTC being bombed and collapsing the day before 9/11, but even broken clocks are right twice a day.

no you didn't

 

[spaceman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...2D1E34&feature=related
airmen in lether bombers?

 

[her209]

Dreams within dreams are trippy as shit.

 

[nakedfrog]

Sometimes.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: her209
Dreams within dreams are trippy as shit.

Very true

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

No, I almost never remember them, maybe 3/year I'll remember for 5 minutes after I wake up.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Most dreams I don't remember fully, they are usually influenced by my daily life though. Sources of stress will definitely make their way in.

I did solve a programming problem in my dream once. I actually remembered it too, and it worked when I implemented it. Still, I didn't feel terribly rested that day.