2006-10-06 03:38:48 · 10 answers · asked by djemli 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Actually you have seen them. You usually dont recognize or remember them. In the simplist terms, the places you see in your dreams are a patchwork of places and things you have seen, been to and imagined. Both real and on television and in books. Your mind pieceworks many different images together to form the backdrop for your dreams.
Kinda cool huh?
2006-10-06 03:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by Thoughts Like Mine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually some of the places might be real. I remember having a dream of driving through this little town...it became a recurring dream so much so that I'd remember every detail of it. The shops, theater, buildings...I remembered their color and more. About 2 years later when I moved... I was driving to the beach one day with some friends and I sat in the back of their jeep looking out the window then it got all weird...it was like i was dreaming because the buildings I saw were exactly the same color, shape and size. The trees were the same it was pretty creepy. I started to think ok I'm just dreaming so I pinched my self really hard. The freakiest part was seeing an old AMC movie theater...it was this huge pink building close to the beach... I had seen that in my dream. And the letters were off the sign on the top of the building...just like the dream.
So sometimes the places in your dreams might just be real...you just have not been there yet. Like for instance why do we sometimes dream of people we've never met?
2006-10-06 11:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by Lucky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can see anything in your dreams. Absolutely anything and everything, your mind can make up some really fascinating stuff. I don't believe in "bits and pieces" -theory everyone seems to preach; why would you need to see something to dream about it? You can imagine in your head what pink elephants or some total strangers look like if I just describe them to you, or come up with a fantasy creature even if you have not seen them. If you start arguing that you have to see a nose before you know what an old man with big and wrinkly nose would look like, then you are slicing hairs. Imagination is a miraculous thing, just take a moment to look some works of great artists... I don't think all those surrealists actually saw everything before they painted it. The same imagination works when you sleep as well... Some would say that even better than during waking hours. Many paintings, pieces of music, novels etc. have been inspired by their makers dreams. You may call it "combining things" and disgrace concepts like 'creativity' and 'originality', I call it imagination.
Oops, got a bit carried away there, but I hope nobody got offended. The point was, it's all about your minds fascinating ability to just come up with things: imagination.
2006-10-06 11:31:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's called compositing. Our minds take bits and pieces of things we HAVE seen already and creates scenery for the dream. You may have seen a bush just walking down the street beside a house, even if only in your periphereal vision, and in your dream it will be in a park. A tree you saw in the forest may end up in a yard in a dream. Just depends on where it's needed and it's relevance to your dream.
2006-10-06 11:06:19 · answer #4 · answered by Rick S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a DREAM!! They are what they are, and I don't know about you, but most of mine are pretty messed up.....have you ever dreamed of a place you've never been, and then at some later date actually GO to the place in your dream? Now that's freaky!
2006-10-06 10:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
freaky,isnt it?listen to this one-last night i dreamed i was in a pretty,mountainous place and i was travelling to see olympic trials for javelin throwers.on the way,i stopped to pet some big grey draft horses.my husband couldnt believe it when i told him.20 years ago,when he lived in germany,he visited the alps to watch sports people preparing for the olympics,including javelin throwers.on the way,he stopped to pet some big grey percheron draft horses in a field by the mountains.he said he hadnt thought of that in years,but my dream was exactly like it !!!dont know how to explain that !!!!!
2006-10-06 10:51:07 · answer #6 · answered by Lyn K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing, but our subconscience is aware of so much more than our conscience minds - maybe we have seen those places! I dream of a campsite I 've never been to, or have I on a parallel?
2006-10-06 10:47:34 · answer #7 · answered by Pattie T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its usually like 5 or 6 diffrent places that you have been squashed into one. you cannot dream of a place where you have never seen .
2006-10-06 10:46:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often dream of ppl I've never met which leads me to kind of believe in previous lives.
2006-10-06 10:46:17 · answer #9 · answered by Bunny Lebowski 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
b cuz god made our brains crazy to wonder off into space when we sleep. n b sides if we knew what we were gonna dream if wouldnt b no fun lmao
2006-10-06 11:25:28 · answer #10 · answered by sexy one 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋