Do Dreams Reflect Reality?

Question

Do your dreams show things that has occured, is occuring, or will occur?
Do they connect with things that will happen in your lifetime later on?
Do they show answers to the "unanswerable" questions of life?
Do they reflect your desires?
What is their purpose? to show us the future? to meddle with our minds? or do we really create them, unconsciously?

Answer 1

Yes, they do reflect reality BUT...when was the last time you made a nice smooth pane of glass in your sleep??!?!?

Yes, there's enough weird quantum stuff going on in the human mind that it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that future and past stuff - and other-dimensional stuff too - leaks into our dreams from time to time, even if it may be another century before we have the science to prove it. But it's an awfully fine line between *wishing* the Red Sox would win the World Series and *predicting* they'll win.

Undoubtedly, dream images that remain present in our minds long after the dream has ended make these kinds of impressions on us for valid and explainable reasons. But let's not forget Freud's reminder that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a tunnel is just a tunnel.

Throughout history, we've generally left the interpretation and direct use of dreams in our daily lives up to the priests and shamans who make the study of alternate realities their life's work. For most of us, that time is likely to be more productively spent cleaning the bathroom.

What we DO know, at least at present, is that with the exceptions of certain types of dreams (e.g. lucid dreams, in which we know we're dreaming, sleep terrors which are perhaps more hallucination than dream) there are few laws which apply to all dreams, and what few laws we do know seem to have little practical value or have so many exceptions that they're impractical, unenforceable, or likely to be struck down on appeal.

What IS certain is that dreams are not the reality we live from day to day. Trying to apply dreams to daily life is as tricky and uncertain as trying to apply an oil tanker to the problem of peeling an orange...which is to say, it might be entertaining, but practical? Who knows? And if you're not careful, oh, the MESS....

That said, a class of dreams known as LUCID dreams has been studied in some depth at a scientific level, and a significant number of laws and predictable probabilities HAS been determined for these. So if comprehensibility is what you want from your dreams, learn to dream consciously. I can tell you from personal experience that while lucid dreaming may not have much cash value, it's pretty much the second-most fun you can have in life with your pants on OR off.

Answer 2

Do Dreams Reflect Reality

Answer 3

I think the very last thing is the answer you're looking for. I would think, now I'm not an expert or anything but seeing that you're on yahoo answers i don't' think you care, everything that goes on in the course of a day is engraved into your mind and memories. You know what I mean? Little bits and pieces of information that gets jumbled when you're in your deepest part of sleep. That's why sometimes you have some really crazy dreams. This is just my opinion.

Answer 4

Yes they do. Good Q.
Thatz why they say 'always dream and dream big for dreams come true'.
Yes i dreamt in 1999 that i was between a vast sea on one side and on the other side were huge mountains. I was attending a lot of interviews at that time and was to be selected out of a dozen that i appeared in. I was finally offered a job and a posting subsequently. I think it was in early 2000 i actually landed up in my previous job and the plant was located in an exact location as i had dreamed of. This is a Steel Plant and is located in the outskirts of Mumbai in India.
We actually create our own dreams because during the day time when we go to work, or go to school/colleage, or are doing house-work, the human thought process is constantly working and is throwing up different thoughts. Its all a creation of our own situation, life-condition, circumstances and a mystical terminology called 'previous birth' (i am sure you must be laughing, but its been proven) which go to make our dreams. It has been also researched on the actual number of thoughts that our mind can throw in a day (sorry i am forgetting the exact no.). People actually also analyse the particular time that we dream ---so as to determine the consequences of a particular dream. It is believed and i have read that when we are awake some of our thoughts go into a 'sub-conscious' state only to be woken up to the 'conscious' state during our sleep. These thoughts actually materialise themselves as 'dreams'. 'Sub-conscious' means it may just be a half-thought or we would not have applied out thinking fully to that thought at that particular moment. Its just as seeing someone passby when you are driving on a highway. The mind is very frivolous and may have grasped for example the colour of the attire. You may just be dreaming of that particular colour later in your sleep, you see. This is my analysis of this phenomenon.

Answer 5

What kind of world do you live in?
A world of solid ground with people and trees, oceans with clouds above it and, higher still, the enormous emptiness of space?
Are you one of the billions of people in that world?
If you answer "yes" to those questions, then you are mistaken!
If you were able to answer "yes" to them, then that means that throughout the course of your life you have probably ignored a most important truth.

The fact is, you do not live in the kind of world described above at all. In your world, there is no distance of even a few meters, let alone of billions of kilometers or galaxies light years away. Actually you live in a very small enclosed space-in a tiny, locked room at the top of a giant tower. You have never left that room. You have never stepped outside it or been anywhere else. All you have seen are different shapes, people and spaces reflected on the walls of that room. You have heard only the sounds emitted from loudspeakers concealed in there. In fact, in that little room at the top of the tower, there is nobody else but you. You are entirely alone!
The "tower" we are speaking of is your body, and the little room atop it (in other words, your world) is your brain.

Your brain is a locked room which you can never step out of, because everything you imagine to be the "outside world" in reality consists of perceptions you experience in the visual or hearing centers of your brain. You can never get past those perceptions and experience directly what we refer to as "real matter"-if such a thing even exists. You can watch the electrical signals arriving at the brain's visual center, but you can never see those signals' true source. You literally watch the cinema screen on the walls of your "room," but can never directly experience the originals of those images.
We shall be setting out that truth in this book(the link below) .
http://harunyahya.net/popup/Download.php?WorkNumber=2172&Format=pdf
What we explain here will, in all likelihood, contradict a great many ideas and concepts that you've become familiar with so far. Yet it is a concrete fact based on scientific proof. Therefore, it's impossible to reject this truth when one thinks about it in a reasoned and logical manner, instead of sticking to familiar preconceptions.
Never forget that ignoring the truth or refusing to think about it gains a person nothing. If anyone says, "No, I live on a planet in an enormous universe, not in a closed room," then he needs to prove the fact. If he cannot do so, then blind belief in any such idea will only lead to his remaining deceived.


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Answer 6

I think the question is,"Does reality reflect our LIFE?" I've always had trouble trying to KNOW and understand the things that have happened, and one lady told me, that what we see is only a fraction of what's really going on. I think our dreams reflect how we PERCEIVE things are going in our lives.

Answer 7

I believe dreams are merely a reflecion on what happens to be bothering you. For an obvious example - I always have dreams I have to go to the bathroom, and there's always something wrong that keeps me from going. In the dreams, its always one of these situations -

1. No women's room anywhere.
2. There is a women's room, but its full of ugly naked men.
3. There is a women's room, with lots of nice clean toilets, but they are all in the open - no booths.
4. All toilets are filthy dirty and there's 2 inches of "liquid" on the floor.
5. One vacant booth, but the toilet is a strange combo lawn mower -dentists chair device.

And the meaning of this is???? I need to get up from my cozy bed, and pee.
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Answer 8

Some of my dreams are related to my life, others not. I think that dreams are simply the brains way of trying to figure things out. I've had "prophetic dreams" and dreams where I'm fighting aliens and in the Legend of Zelda. It all depends if your brain is trying to figure something out or wants to just goof off.

Answer 9

Everything we know about dreams is theoretical. We aren't sure the power that they have to show anything realistic; personally I believe that they are just our mind using energy our body has stored throughout the day.

But there isn't anything to say that all that energy can't go to some good thoughts! - Who knows, maybe we all know the cure for disease and famine somewhere in our subconscious.

Answer 10

I haven't won the lottery yet. but i haven't given up. See I dreamt that. Some things have happened, the scarriest dream was when the Blob came to Florida