Oh Off Topicers, What Say You about Dreams?

I believe so. I try to interpret my dreams and they're pretty helpful in m,aking decisions.

Hhmph.

Funny you should ask that question right now.

Fell asleep tonight (instead of being up working like I SHOULD have been) - had a dream that woke me up. Yay.

Still kind of wiping the sleep out and thinking I should just go back to bed.

It was a bit disturbing, which is why I got up. Otherwise, I would probably still be sawing logs.

But, I believe dreams let you "play" with "scenarios" that you wouldn't otherwise "be able to do" if you know what I mean.

Yes, I think there is a lot to dream interpretation. Depends on the reference point, but most comes from your own "gut". Books can be a guide, but only you are going to be able to figure out your own dreams, and what they mean to you.

In the past, and still to this day - I've had dreams so vivid, that I'll still taste things in my mouth and have scents lingering well after I've woke up. I've been killed, or died in my dreams many times - which I guess might make me more comfortable with the "dying process." (Works for me, because that Dream experience lessens the fear of the pain involved in dying, which is one of my "larger fears"). If I have already done it in dreams a number of times - it will be easy in real life - if that makes sense.

Case in point - if you dream about getting shot in the head, and you feel no pain - you're not going to be so afraid of getting shot.

Now I'm not sure what your dream was about - it could have been very "mundane" - but - if you're going through "major crap" in your brain/body at night - maybe you need the help on some aspect that is being played in your dream.

Ever feel like you're trying to "run" from something, but your legs are in quicksand, and you move at a snail's pace? LOL! How about knowing someone is after you, and you get sick of it, and run headlong right towards them - with a huge AAAAHHHHHHRRRGGGG - only to be shot in the chest with a double barrel shotgun. Heh. Last time I did that I ended up on a stairway trying to tell my mom that I wanted to see my own funeral. (Only she didn't hear me or know I was there) - and I was crying from the loss of my own life. Mostly because I felt bad for my kids - not for me, I knew I was fine.

Watched my husband and everyone walk right by, cause I was "no longer there" but everyone proceeded down the stairs paying no mind to me, even though I tried to "poke" each person that went by. No, I didn't try the boys, but I probably should have.

I woke up feeling very depressed, gee wouldn't know why...

But dreams can have a very "real" effect on a person.

I've had dreams that come to pass, but most don't - or at least so FAR they haven't - thank goodness.

Reading into the whole dream thing, I have "read" or "heard" that many people dream in black and white. Personally, I can't imagine that - and think it's a crock - because I dream in full technicolor, complete with scent, taste, etc. How any person can dream in simple black and white, with none of the "extras" is beyond me, but when I ask other people if they dream in color or black and white, they don't remember. :confused:

I find that a bit odd, but hey - to each his own.

If you would like to find out if dreams mean anything, the best method is to use a notebook to jot down what you dream - right when you wake up. No matter what time it is. (Like now for me.) - but you can track your dreams over time.

Jot down what you saw, the feelings you had, etc. Do that for about 6 months, and see if anything really comes out of it.

Intuition maybe?

Thankfully, I personally don't have to do all that, never was "disciplined" enough. I have just "remembered" and "matched" because crap like tonight is not very easy to forget. It gets remembered long enough for me to "get a clue" - and even if I don't, it's no worrry. The dream gives me some kind of experience that I need at the time, so I take it for what it's worth.

Hope that helps, while I go back to bed. (I hope).

Next session I'll have to remember to "control the dream" which is entirely in your power if you can be a "lucid dreamer" which I've only been able to do a handful of times.

To control a dream (lucidly), you have to totally remember what you just dreamed - and you put a "mission" in your brain before you go back in - to pick up where you left off, and continue the dream under your own control. Some people can even do this right within a dream without waking up, but I've only had any success at that if I wake up first - then go back in.

Problem on this end, is that when I finally con myself back into sleep - I either "don't remember the dream" well enough (because I physically got up) - or maybe the original dream freaked me out so much that I had no REAL intention of going back in, - in those cases - I remember nothing on waking up the next time. If I physically get up, like I did tonight, forget it. I get nothin.

Thanks!
Back to Bedtime for Bonzo
Michelle

Yes, I do believe in dream interpretation. Dreams are the product of our subconsciousness... most of the times dreams reflects our goals, desires or the problems that we are having.

Sometimes dreams will try to warn us about different things.

Dream interpretation is a very interesting topic, numerous studies are conducted on this issue.

Listen to your dream, they might tell you something for a reason...

I had a dream about escaping the monster from the Cloverfield movie in Scooby-Doo's 'Mystery Machine' van being towed at high-speed by a car that looked like the head of the Honey Monster from the Sugar-Puffs cereal box. And there were several other people escaping by clinging for dear-life to the hair of the Honey Monster.

Interpret THAT!