What do you do with your dreams?

Question

What do you do with your dreams?
I personally write down my dreams, as mine are very in-depth and hold a lot of information, Also i find my dreams can continue on in days or months from when i first had the original.

So do you do your own dream interpretation?
Do you write them down in a journal?
or Do you just ignore them ?

Answer 1

I think about them through the day after I've had a particularly thought provoking dream. I try to relate the symbols in the dream to what I think they might mean.

As symbols are evoked differently for everyone, I think interpreting your own dreams is probably more accurate than someone else doing it for you. For example, a dragon might mean strength and power to one person, and to another it may mean deviously wicked. It just depends on the person and the dream their mind conjures.

I write down some of my dreams, depending on how deeply it impacted me and if I want to remember it.

Some dreams I just enjoy, sort of like a personal empowerment. It's like my mind revealing secrets to me that I cannot see during the day.

Happy dreaming!

Answer 2

I am fascinated by dreams and I do dream a lot - I mean many times I remember my dreams.

I went to many websites to learn about dream interpretation and it's true that the best thing is to interpret your own dreams. However, there are some general ideas that are applicable to everyone and can help in analyzing your dream, if only I could remember them (like dreaming).

I think your dream is usually connected to what is going on in your real life.

I'll give an example of what I mean.

I had gone to a health club to get information about joining. The person spoke to me about having a free trial week and I agreed. Then I thought it over and I was extremely nervous about joining a health club - expense, uncomfortable with my body, shyness about exercising in front of strangers, etc.

However, I remember thinking when I went through the health club that it was very nice (clean, well kept) and the people (both sexes) looked beautiful.

That night I had a dream that I was on top of mountain looking at a beautiful view. I was in a box, but I wanted to go out of the box to look at the view and I had a terrible fear of falling. I didn't fall, but I felt like I was slipping and that I could fall when out of the box.

So I interpreted this dream to be related to my health club experience - I understood that I was afraid of going out of my box (my regular routine, my limitations, my comfort zone) and doing something that looked like I could have an exciting experience - meet new people, become a new person (physically and mentally), but also that I was afraid I would fail and be a failure. Once, I understood this dream, I started to feel less nervous about the health club.

That is why dreams are wonderful - the dreams show you how you really feel about your life - they are the best and truest guide to understanding yourself.

Answer 3

I think dreams are good to analyze when you are in a place in your life where you are not happy or are confused about something. Dreams can provide insights into what you truly want or fear on a subconscious level.

When I was an undergrad (Psychology), I kept a dream journal for an entire semester. I would even wake myself up in the middle of the night with an alarm clock to record my dreams. I turned it in as a project for one of my psych courses and the professor was very impressed by it! It was dozens and dozens of pages of dreams and interpretations. I even experimented a little with lucid dreaming. Do you know what that is?

Now I don't do much with my own dreams, but I like to analyze other peoples dreams.

Answer 4

I used to write them down but it was time consuming. I have multiple dreams in one night and each one is very detailed. I would write page after page and it was taking hours to properly record them. I would write down every detail of what I saw, felt, said and did. I felt I had to write down what other people were wearing, the color of the sky, stuff like that. I didn't do any interpretation, just the facts.

Some days I didn't feel like writing them down so I'd jot down notes so I could write them later. I quickly created a backlog of dreams that hung over me all the time and it started to stress me out. Plus, the more I wrote them down the more I remembered them. It got out of control (no joke) and I started hating having to write them down. I would go to sleep and hope I didn't have another dream. I gave up on it a few years ago but I would like to start doing it again someday if I can do it without it feeling like homework or something.

Answer 5

I usually forget the details of my dreams, and I haven't really had any recently, but I used to use them to write short stories for myself. I do end up analyzing a bit, but only the minimal.

Answer 6

I have nightmares usually, not really sure why. Mostly about somethign happing to my children. I assume its because i am so afraid of whats going to happen in my up comming divorce so i try to shake my dreams off and forget them. Usually they have something to do with my ex getting my kids and me never seeing them. Which is more that i could bear. I guess thats why they are nightmares. Mommyblues78

Answer 7

I do not really want to remember my dreams as they are so off the wall. I think sometimes they are just picking up from commercials, tv shows, inventing stuff, going back into the memory bank due to not having children around any more, they are all grown, etc. It is just too intense sometimes, so I prefer to just say, it was another wild dream that even if it does have meaning, it is not that important to me. My dreams have continued off and on, but it is the same one, I am on my way to Alaska, but I always miss the transportation. When I was traveling to Houston, I got there very early just in case it was a sign I was going to miss a plane, as it turned out, I got on an earlier one, which was even better.

I know in a way, what it could mean, it is that I am on my way to Heaven, but it is not my time. I usually can interpretate them myself, but I just go on and try to ignore them. It is usually just your subconscious mind trying to sort out stuff, that you have already sorted out.

Your mind is just a step behind you. Another time, I was taking my Mother back to her first home we had as a child, and I knew that I could not come in, she was older and I helped her pack her bags. When we got on the porch, I was writing her a love note, and as I looked around she had gone already inside the house. I went around to the side window and looked in, and she was there, but somewhat younger. In real life, about a year prior, she died in a nursing home. I was with her, and I was not ready to let her go, but when she was gone, I knew she wanted to go, and I told her to let go and be with God. It was her time and she wanted it that way. I cried like a baby in real life over here bed. My mind later was helping me sort it out, and tell me it was her time and nothing I could have done. You blame yourself saying that maybe there was something I could have done.

Sometimes dreams hurt, and you do know what they mean, but it is just as well to let them go, as you are in another world, and they are somewhere else in time.

Answer 8

I used to forget my dreams because i dont want to live in the world of dreams as these always disguise me from my natural life.

Answer 9

i don't do that cause they are not in serial.
i just want to know about ur dreams. whether any dream of yours has come true?
we don't have time to write what is happening in real life and u have time to jot down ur dreams,-
u r quite lucky.
i am sure one day u may become dreamologist

Answer 10

i wrote down one of my dreams on www.freakydreams.com/ and its really interesting cuz it interperts them. i also had a dream which told me that i have a fear of being alone. it was really wierd with driving down a street and everybody was having a picnic then the school gates wouldn't open