Dreams and wakefulness.?

Question

why do I accept the crazy, scenario-shifting, absurd non-reality of dreams in my sleep?
How do I then discount the dreams as less than reality if my waking reality isn't real enough juxtaposed next to the reality of my inner world?
ERGO...(sorry I couldn't resist) how much of a grip do I need on my conscious day time self in order to discredit my dreams as lucid fantasy?

Answer 1

Dreams are Sybolic Reality--so they make perfect sense to that part of the brain that lives in the dreams, and probably is creating those dreams, to give your conscious part a message.

A middle-aged friend of mine dreamt he was in a carriage, sitting between a young woman, and an old lady. The young woman's boyfriend was an Artist who did not mind his flirting. The old lady climed on my friend and stuck her tongue down his throat.

The young woman was my friend's YOUTH.
The old rapist crone was his ultimate DEATH.
The absent artist boyfriend was GOD.

Easy, huh?
If you get in touch with your dreamer side, instead of trying to repress it, you will feel more comfortable and not feel that you have to "get a grip".

Paying more conscious ATTENTION to your daytime reality, instead of imagining and watching TV, movies, books, etc., will help a lot, too.

There is not so hard-and-fast a barrier betweeen nightself and dayself, as you might think.

Answer 2

dreams are often the naked you without all the conscious cover up we do when we are awake. We can pretend that the unseen world is not real all we want when we are awake, but in Dream Land such walls don't exist. when we dream we come face to face with real evil, or real joy, or real fears, real passions and nothing is more real, than the things we cannot total out. So real is such realms that one can wake up, and be soaked wet with sweat, or so fearful that one will hit all the lights, and search the place. As long as we insist there is no God, then you insist that their is no Supreme Spirit to which the spirit world must answer to on account of you. Therefore one is open to whatever evil that world wants, because when you don't belong to the God who is good, then you belong to the opposite side of the spirit world, which is all that's wicket there. We always choose, because each time we resist one we automatically choose the other. Pay attention to your off the wall dreams, and note torment, and understand that this does not come from our loving God, and that you are under the influence of something that doesn't not have your best interest at heart.

Answer 3

I agree with most of the above posters. Why can't you accept both? What is reality? If it happens to you, it's "real" and should be examined for deeper meaning and not discounted because it was not a tangible experience.

Dreams sometimes teach us things that we would never be able to learn in the physical world. I don't know to what spiritual belief you subscribe, but, in my belief, dreams can help you to work your way through karmic issues from past lives in ways that no physical experience can.

Check out Carl Jung and his ideas on dream symbols and the collective unconscious. Happy dreaming!

Answer 4

Is it not fact the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, if this is so, it does not necessary that equate that your dreams are subordinate to your waking world.

No! dreams can be a very real experience and by no means does indicate that you are weird. Just a person who has dreams that maybe hard to interpret.

Answer 5

what is reality anyway? What difference does it make which you discredit and which you accept? Why can't you accept both? Maybe dreams are the pathway to accepting the "reality" of life which is truly just a fantasy anyway.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Hi there is such a thing as lucid dreaming, where you are asleep but you are aware it is a dream and you can influence the events and outcome of the dream, it is a very strange experience, perhaps you are experiencing this ?

Answer 8

Dreams are a melange of recent memories, distant recollections and the brain in freewheel. They are definitely subordinate to your waking world, unless your waking world is 100% weird!!!

Answer 9

Strap electrodes 2 ur finger nails, if they ignite, then ur dreaming...