I just had a dream that I was trying on a suit. I remember thinking that the pants were too big. but upon trying them on they fit just right. Then, I was surprised to find that the jacket didn't fit at all.
If I created this scenario myself, how is it that I was surprised and did not know the outcome? Or is it possible that the dream came from somewhere else?
2006-09-04 16:52:11 · 15 answers · asked by eat 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is because your concept of a single, unified "self" is incorrect. You're not a whole unit - you're a bunch of different things, that come together to form what you and i think of as a "self".
The part of you that makes up dreams is apparently not the same part of you that experiences them. Which i think is strange, because i don't ever feel surprised in my dreams.
2006-09-04 16:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by extton 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe a lot of dreams come from the spirit world, or perhaps others? I believe dreams can subconsciously mold us, warn us, teach us, and altered our conscious thoughts.
I have had 3 dreams that played out a future act in my life. For example, I had a dream about my children's father (we were separated at the time) and woke up in the middle of the night terrified from the dream. It is really hard to recall but I basically saw him running through a field and police were after him. The last thing I saw was him hiding in a bush with police helicopter hoovering over him saying he was surrounded...then I woke up and called him because I had a strong sense he was in jail (but in reality at the time he was merely preparing how he and a friend were going to rob a bank the next morning)
I called him all night and left many messages to call me and in my last message I told him don't do any thing stupid or illegal because of the dream.
He never got the message, and the next morning I received a call from work and guess what it was him.
He was at a bank in the process of robbing it and the police had him surrounded. He received 50 years federal time, and I am raising my kids alone. If I could have talked to him that night, perhaps he would have thought twice and never would have attempted bank robbery.
I did not make up the dream. It didn't happen exactly as it happened in reality but the result was the same.
I won't even discuss the other two because they are not easy for others to believe.
I'll admit I have some whacked out senseless dreams but the 3 that I have had of future, real occurring events has assured me that I'm not always in control of the content.
People who are unable to accept that there is much more to the mind than what science can see, or believe they have humans all figured out based upon evolution or psychology are simply not able to accept spirtual ideas and they only make up a VERY small group if humans.
I'm a neuro ICU nurse and while medicine & research has greatly advanced it will countinue expanding and what they will end up finding is that the mind is the spirit, and it is not as simple as some scientist hope.
But like A.J. Ayers, the author of Truth & Logic stated after his near death experience...in regards to Ayer's near death experience "it may have weakened my conviction that death would be the end of me, though I continue to hope it will be".
2006-09-04 17:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by erinjanae 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is also a thing called "day residue" in which things that you saw or thought about during the day somehow creep into your dreams. You could have a dream about beheadings that you have no idea about, then remember you were watching a documentary about the French Revolution. Even physical feelings can creep in. Try drinking a lot of water before sleeping and see if you don't dream about very odd bathrooms because you really need to wake up and go! Weird yes, but then so is the mind!
2006-09-04 16:56:02 · answer #3 · answered by art_tchr_phx 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your conscious mind is only the 'tip of the iceberg'. A great deal of your mind is subconscious. The subconscious mind often surprises us, both in dreams and in waking. Many artists describe their creative process as being one of getting into a right frame of mind where their 'muse' takes over. Writers talk about writing stories where the plot of the story only reveals itself to them as they write it, yet they are writing as fast as they can 'transcribe the dictation'.
The brain is an amazing organ. It gives us such a rich sense of being that most of us can't believe that there isn't something else, so we invent the concept of the soul. I think in the next 50 years our understanding of the brain and mind will advance enough that we will have a new theory that scientists will consider as rich as the Theory of Electricity or the Theory of Gravity of the Theory of Evolution, and theists will have yet another branch of knowledge that they deny and claim is "only a theory".
2006-09-04 17:05:25 · answer #4 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is your subconscious mind which is creating the scenario & the incidents which happens in your mind. it is u might have read in a book or seen a film or just imagined in your mind without your knowledge. your subconscious mind stores the information. when u are sleeping your active mind takes rest & subconscious mind start s working. whatever it has stored comes out as a dream. sometimes you even dream as though your wishes have come true.sometimes u would have heard some incidents which have happened to somebody whom u know. & u might have forgotten it. but your suncon mind stores it. & brings out as a dream as though it has happened to u. that is why we get surprised at our dreams sometimes.
2006-09-04 17:04:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question... (...and nice looking donut, too.)
I'm not going to pretend that I have any clue about the answer to this ... I'm as interested in learning and as baffled by the phenomenon as you are. The observation is a terrific one.
Try reading "The Quantum Self," Zohar --- an excellent insight into a recent branch of study in physics which is seeking answers about what our conscience minds are all about... interesting stuff... like trying to explain electricity or light in terms of atomic properties - it's all pretty tricky but very, very KOOL.
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(go smoke another one ErinJ... ha ha ha)
2006-09-04 17:01:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dreams are only the unconcious mind trying to solve the conscious minds every day problems. rarely do they actually mean anything or can point towards a course of action. its just your brain trying to come to terms with things and problem solve. Its your brain 'rehearsing' scenarios it thinks are posssible to prepare the waking mind to cope with them.
2006-09-04 17:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by angus1745 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are 2 ppl in the mind 1 we know 1 we dont
2006-09-04 16:54:26 · answer #8 · answered by joe b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try having a dream where someone answers a question you asked :) now that leaves you dumbfounded.
2006-09-04 16:58:32 · answer #9 · answered by Shiverbane 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some dreams are escapism, and others are designed to exercise areas of the brain that are left out of everyday work
2006-09-04 16:55:45 · answer #10 · answered by admiralgill 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋