what do u know about dreams...?

Question

my dreams are so intense, some so beautiful i wanna sleep for much longer. it's not as simple as suggesting it's what we were thinking about, or seeing before we went to sleep, what is the brain doing to conger these images? dreams happen in a few seconds apparently. i'm fascinated by dreams.

Answer 1

A dream is the experience of envisioned images, voices, or other sensations during sleep. Dreams often portray events which are impossible or unlikely in physical reality, and are usually outside the control of the dreamer, (although some people have reported lucid dreaming, breaking the suspension of disbelief and realizing they are dreaming—being sometimes even capable of changing the oneiric reality around them and controling various aspects of the dream). Many people report experiencing strong emotions while dreaming, and frightening or upsetting dreams are referred to as nightmares. The scientific discipline of dream research is oneirology.

Answer 2

I have an interesting theory about dreams.
We live in a finite realm. I don't mean our universe, I mean us, our bodies, energy, what have you. We can only do soo much, mind you it's a huge amount of possibilities, but finite none the less. I think we have a predetermined life. We will do what we will do because that is what we were made to do. We have a choice on what we do, so we can actually deter from our proposed life. Dreams I think are our own way of making sure we stay on track. It conjurs up images and happenings that affect us conciously and subconciously so that we stay on the right track. I personally think it's our soul make sure we do what we're supossed to be doing.

Answer 3

I myself also am fascinated by dreams.

Basically these images and visual / aural stimuli are how our subconscious mind "deals" with our daily/weely/monthly conscious existance. Since everything in life affects us on a subconscious level (even is our consciouness does not appear to be affected), our subconscious has to process and "deal" with these sensory inputs, which then translates into dreams.

Most of our dreams are forgotten the moment we wake up. In the best of circumstances, we are left with an "afterglow" and a few blurry images which quickly fade away. Some dreams we actually are lucky enough to remember. It is these images which captures our curiosity and engages us to wonder the meaning of dreams.

I myself don't recall most of my dreams; I only remember feelings and sensations, as well as sometimes "colors" and "scents". The dreams I do remember are usually recurring ones, sometimes with slight variations on the theme, and of course nightmares. In fact, most of the dreams I do remember are nightmares, which vary in intensity. The lesser nightmares are basically reality-extentions (which can be easilly dealt with your consciousness) while the more intense nightmares are usually much more intense and "fantastic" in nature, often being so completelly un-realistic that I wonder why my subconscious didn't realise it was dreaming and therefore woke me up!

Over the last decade or so I have begun to take a more "active" role in my dreams, in essence trying to train my subconscious into taking a more pro-active part withint the narrative of my dreams. Where usually I appear to be a "spectator" in my dreams (even though I am usually the central character) , I have begun to take action within the dream itself, often pushing the dreams into different directions, variations, and sometimes just plain waking up because my subconscious realises it is only a dream!

But on a less interesting note, even since I have been deprived of sleep (noisy and disrespectful neighbours prevent me from sleeping properly) I was forced to take measures to allow me at least some kind of sleep, which in turn has turned my dreaming experiences into extremelly rare moments of unconsciousness. Basically, thanks to my noisy neighbours, I don't dream as much as I used to simply because I only sleep about 1/2 the time I would require.

Most dreams do have some kind of meaning, some kind of insight into ourselves, but the answers to our dreams cannot be found in textbooks, since alot of the imagery our subconcious propels at us only has meaning to ourselves. For example, dreaming of a car could mean many different things to different people. There are recurring themes that anyone can share, but usually our dreams are a very private conversation between our consciousness and subconsciousness.

Cheers

Answer 4

Freud wrote a lot about them, not sure how right he was

I think of dreams as a blending of what happens during the day with whats already in your mind. Sort of depositing the new insights and memories.

Answer 5

most dreams are just dreams, some are more than that. personally, i believe that sometimes, some people can make predictions based on their dreams. they can see that something is about to happen, whether it's good or bad. i've always been a skeptic when it comes to psychics, ghosts and goblins, stuff like that, but this is something i have experience in.

Answer 6

I usually find really some interesting answers to my dreams on this site: http://www.glamour.com/swoon. Although, they are pretty vague.

Answer 7

Lucky, I can never remember my dreams!