Like extra's on the stage of some set to be some no name, no face person in a short scene of a movie, where do those people in your dreams come from? You know the ones, the people you see with detail in your dreams but you never met this person or anyone who looked like them before last night in that crazy dream, where do the extra's come from?
2006-10-21 17:08:04 · 29 answers · asked by leseulun 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Take a paper and pencil and try out drawing random faces, or even freak criss-cross lines, and try visualising shape of faces. Try looking at clouds, and find as many shape of faces as possible... try to splash colours like modern art pictures, etc...
You will be surprised at the number of 'new' faces that your mind shows you in each of these experiments/trials. And during dream, the visualisation is at your best (least interrruption by outside situation)!
2006-10-21 18:26:12 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with someone else's answer, life. I have very vivid and detailed dreams and often remember them after waking. I have found myself wondering where I knew that person in my dream from. I got the answer one day.
I lost my keys a few years ago. This was after arriving home from work and school. Now, I had lost and misplaced my spare keys, and needed to find my last remaining pair to get to work the next morning. That night, I woke from a dream in which I found my keys under my driver seat. It must have been 2 in the morning, but I thought it was worth a shot. I got out of bed and went to look in my car. Sure enough, they were there. Apparently, they had fallen between the console and my seat, sliding down beneath the seat while I grabbed my backpack from the passenger seat. I was too sleepy to start figuring out the dream and went back to bed, happy I had found the keys.
My only conclusion was that our minds are powerful databases. We often record things unconsciously. We can retrieve these "files" while in distress or in a meditative state. These things include pictures, sounds, smells, feelings, etc. I think the urgency of my problem and my knack for detailed dreaming brought out this recorded sound of the keys falling under my seat in my dream. I must admit, I don't recall dreaming of the sound, but I dreamt I was searching for them in my car again (as I had searched it earlier that evening), and finally found them under the seat (where I had already looked before).
The same goes with these people in our dreams that we do not know. Pehaps we caught a glimpse of them in a store, on tv, or in the street. Could explain de javu, which I experience quite often. As for feelings, I've dreamt of feelings I knew I'd never experienced before. My conclusion on this......we can experience surrogate, sensory perceptions. I give the mind lots of credit, because we certainly do no fully understand its full capabilities yet.
2006-10-22 00:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by emie504 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they dreams, visits from spiritual friends, or your own subconscious. If the dreams are in vivid colours then they are from spirit, if they are black and white then they are from your subconscious. Most mortal dreams from self happen in the last few moments before we awake but it may seem like hours when it is only a few seconds as there is no time in nirvana.
IMHO The Doc
2006-10-22 00:12:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The extras one sees in one's dreams are perhaps one of the most intriguing features of an even more intriguing process, that is of dreaming it self! i think that there is no set answer to this puzzle. they may be memories of a past life, or of a future, since time is supposed to be 3-dimensional and not linear, and we may be able to find access to these people in our dreams. then again, theu may be fictional characters, however this possibility is less likely.
2006-10-22 00:12:25 · answer #4 · answered by rockdj1232001 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all from your head. Sometimes it's just a flights of fancy, sometimes it's your pattern-recognition ability trying to extrapolate the future from what you've seen, sometimes it's your brain dredging up forgotten and immaterial bits of the past.
The figures in our dreams wear their faces like a theatrical masks, suggesting what is, but forever hidden to us. Much like the rest of the imagery of dreams.
2006-10-22 00:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by rj7123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Central Casting.
2006-10-22 01:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by Disgruntled 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GREAT question. Wow, suppressed memories perhaps. I've seen relatives in dreams, and strangers that I meet the next day, I would say the sources are as infinite as the sources for inspiration.
2006-10-22 00:19:38 · answer #7 · answered by Jim P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The extra's come from heaven, the same place you where before you got here and your spirit can record any part of your life and play it back.
2006-10-22 00:19:07 · answer #8 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could be coming from your imagination or the Collective Consciousness.
Just like the places we visit in our dreams, those we've never been to in our waking lives....it's impossible to tell.
2006-10-22 00:20:42 · answer #9 · answered by Sexy Eyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you did see them for a quick second when you were walking down the street, at the movie theatre, shopping mall and your subconscious was paying better attention.
2006-10-22 00:15:59 · answer #10 · answered by Adelaide V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋