Do dreams mean anything?

Question

I had a dream were my husband went on a trip to TX to take his grandma home and he didn't get back when he was supposed to. anyway I turned on the news in the breakroom were I work and they were talking about our cities homicide rate and the latest victim. They showed a guy face down and when they turned him over it was my husband. now I am afraid to let him go to TX alone, what do u think? He is supposed to leave Tuesday and it's Sunday
plz help??

I guess my question is should I let him go to TX alone or should I go with him? I am so scared he won't come back; last night he went to church and was maybe 30 min. late getting home and I was so scared I wouldn't watch the news. Should I go with him??

The only reason I wasn't going with him is because I have to work, but I don't how much good I will do at work worrying about him

Answer 1

I often dream things that then happen.

Sometimes they are small things...(like dreaming that one tyre of my explodes and then it happens) some other times they are bigger things (like dreaming someone whom will die soon to then discover he dies for real).
If i were you i'd tell him your dream overtly and let him decide. Dreams don't have to happen necessarily. I think those kind of dreams simply describe a highly probable situation that can be avoided if the person is aware of the risk.
It's a long topic to treat in a few lines but i have come to classify dreams in

1) Realistic but not happening dreams - Sparked by events we've seen, awarely or unawarely, during the day or during the week. they can be very realistic yet rarely REAL.
2) Realistic and happening - These are dreams we have that actually mean something and normally relate to very simple actions we do daily or to people we care a lot about. In this case i have noticed how speaking about it often the dream doesn't happen, while keeping it for myself the dream happens (don't ask me why but this is what happens)
3) Other dreams - It's a mix of true and untrue things, rarely relevant for your life, even though here in Italy many people dream dead relatives who give them the right numbers to play at bingo and they win for real. It's a common thing (not kidding).

I hope all this helped.

Answer 2

Sometimes, but not in a predictive sense. Sometimes it is the brain processing the stuff you have been doing, thinking or seeing all day. Or the dream can come up with an insight on a problem you have had.
Unfortunately the dreaming brain is not logical in its presentations, so hearing people commenting on homicide rates then seeing your husband dead may actually be your brain's attempts to explain away some unfocussed anxiety or apprehension that has been dogging you - not a warning from the Other Side.
For example, my husband dreamt he had murdered a friend, then met up with some other people who said they had had to murder the same man. Just then he saw the him walk past and realised, on waking, it was about giving up on a poisonous friendship for his own sake. It did not mean he was going to murder his friend or that he hated or wished to harm him.

I can understand your worry, though. Why does the brain fix on such distressing ways of communicating not very much at all?
Think carefully, are you anxious about something in your life? That's probably where this is coming from.

If you really can't overcome your anxiety over this trip - and you should not beat up on yourself if you can't - then why not go with him, as you suggest? That way you won't be putting yourself through hell until he is safe back.

Answer 3

Forget Freud. Dreams are just a jumbled up expression of what is locked in your short term or long term memory. Full stop. If you are nervous abou this to begin with, you will dream it. It always happens in a form of something else that occured in your day, eg. did you watch SVU or CSI before you had that dream?? Even if you thought about something for a split second during the day, it can extend out in your dreams. Please believe me. Dreams do not come true unless you are psychic.

Answer 4

Some dreams do but as for this maybe your anxious about him going is there no way you can go aswell or try to put your dreams to the back of your mind i always have bad dreams when i,m worried about things because i fall asleep with those things on my mind whatever happens i hope things work out good for you

Answer 5

Dreams show you, that you don´t sleep when you sleep. A part of you is awake even if you sleep. This part is true and this truth is a part of you and everybody. So if you have got problems maybe you dream from solutions or from fights. Or if you´ve got fear and you don´t know why - maybe your dreams will show you the reasons for that fear. Dreams mean a kind of communication with ourselves.

Answer 6

TAKE IT EASY ! dreams are responses to our fears and anxieties ; distorted messages
-often-from our universe. Some poeple get them correctly or incorrectly. Various groups or schools explain them in their own way ; There are kind of messages, inflicted
in 2 by our electromagnetic field-around us- and they mean something. Let's not be the effect of them in our daily life...let's be optimistic people,who roll up their sleeves and
carry out our assignments!
Ciao..........John-John.

Answer 7

I don't subscribe to the "dreams have meaning" theory. Many dreams are just figments of our imagination running wild. Has nothing to do with desires nor predictions. Just dream away and relax.

Answer 8

You gotta read Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams !!! It's cool !

Answer 9

DREAMS DO MEAN SOMETHING BUT WOULDNT KNOW MYSELF YOU CAN BUY BOOK WHICH PUT MEANING TO DREAMS IVE HAD HORRIBLE DREAMS ABOUT MY HUSBAND BUT NOTHIN HAS EVER HAPPENED THE SAME WAY SO DONT WORRY YOURSELF HE`LL BE FINE

Answer 10

i had a dream that my husband, was killed in a car wreck,like you, it scared me, i told him to be extra careful & prayed that day for him- he was in a car wreck- not his fault,that day!-totaled the car. so just pray & tell your husband to be extra careful!