Why do human beings never have dreams during which we are an animal and not a human?

Question

This is an absolute fact.

Answer 1

Your statement is on the whole quite intriguing. However, I know for a fact that a young woman in her second year at a large university had a very specific, extremely detailed and quite intense dream about four years ago. At that time she was sending me all her dreams for review. In one she became a serpent. During the time that she was this truly beautiful and even magnificent serpent - that was part of a very dramatic plot within the dream - no part of her remained human. She became the serpent totally. Moreover, she related as the serpent, to humans - both male and female.

At the time I took this dream at a very deep level and attempted to relate it to other dreams that she was having in which huge numbers of animals - particularly marine mammals as well as serpents - were appearing in very dramatic contexts. At that time I had no idea that such research existed suggesting that humans never become animals in their dreams.

I am very interested in this statistic. I should add that I mentioned to the young woman that I was extremely interested in her dream. I told her that at no time had I ever dreamt of being an animal. I have had plenty of important animal dreams, but I myself always seemed to remain myself. I did not treat her dream as if she were crazy or anything like that. I recall at the time thinking that her complete identity with the female snake may have been pointing out a difference between male and female psychology.

Anyway, I thought it was important to inform you in case you were interested. There is no question but that for a large portion of her dream she was wholly in the body and soul and behavior of a very, very beautiful snake. She slithered, coiled and moved as snakes do. In fact she was identifying with a whole society of snakes. This woman is highly intelligent; extremely emotional - even manipulative - and full of terrors. But in this dream, being a snake was not at all evil or menacing. In fact, as the snake, she demonstrated slightly more moral force and discernment - including sensitive regard for the feelings of others - than in normal, waking life.

Most of us tend to identifiy with our own ego center which excludes images and even archetypes that are not it. But with this woman I think she was letting go the ego center as deeper layers of the unconscious welled up within her incredibly intense personality, and equally intense imagination. I think her ego is not quite as crystallized as most. So, it is possible that she has not been dreaming of herself as an animal since, as her ego becomes more firmed up by necessity. I have been out of touch with her.

The statistic you cited may be telling us something about the relationship between genetic transformations and the nature of the ego, as if the 'ego' of a species, so to speak, were obeying a form of some type of exclusion principle by which an evolutionary leap is made.

B. Lyons

Answer 2

There's no way that's fact. Not that I'm calling you a liar, but how could someone prove that? Now that you mention it, though, I don't recall ever dreaming I was some other animal. That's definitely weird, but there's absolutely no way to find out if anyone else has.

Also, just for the record, humans ARE animals.

Answer 3

No, the Qur'an would not restrict the slaughter of animals. you already know the way Jews have kosher nutrition? Muslims have halal nutrition. Islam does no longer promote terrorism. Jihad potential holy conflict, yet there is outer jihad, at the same time as one defends one's position of foundation and there is inner jihad, the position one strives rid oneself of evil in a unmarried's heart. i do not understand why mosques do not enable non-Muslims interior. human beings of alternative religions are fellow human beings, yet Islam recognizes that Jews, Christians and Sabians are also "human beings of the e book," it is those communities worship the single authentic God (of the Abrahamic traditions). maximum persons of Muslims are peace loving those who only opt to stay, have households, and they are not fanatics. it really is only too undesirable that lack of understanding enables human beings's minds to in the present day categorize a collection they understand no longer some thing about as "terrrorists." The Qur'an gave women rights at the same time as before that they had none (in the course of the Jahiliya, lack of understanding of divine preparation). female babies were left for useless because they were no longer valued. Islam fairly gave women rights (when it comes to divorce, the female and any children from the marriage must be supported). The Qur'an says that there is one God and that He on my own will decide all souls on Judgement Day. Muslims have self belief Jesus will come again on the right of time. Islam is misperceived and it really is a shame because it really is so resembling Christianity and Judaism. human beings are anti-Islam because they are afraid and they do no longer understand some thing about Islam. i'm hoping it is functional.

Answer 4

I'll disprove that. I had a dream in which I was a wolf. Where's your absolute fact now?

And dude, don't e-mail me and call me a liar. It is a fact that you can't admit you're wrong on this subject.

Answer 5

i think it has something to do with the fact that we have become so use to living in ourselves an dunderstanding what it means to be human that its almsot impossible to imagin eyour self as an animal therefore not even in your subconcious mind can you dream of being an animal

Answer 6

Usually I dream about what happens to me as a person because I go through my daily routine as a person.

Sometimes we will have inanimate objects or other animals in our dreams who represent people, however, though it may not seem like it at first.

Answer 7

Can you cite your source? Because I have never heard of this before.
One reason might be that since dreams come from our actual lives so we never think of ourselves from an animal's point of view.

Answer 8

I dreamed I was a car once. A '74 beetle.

Answer 9

"This is an absolute fact" you say. I say "Bull." Which, coincidentally, I once dreamed that I was. Strange considering that I'm a female. But I've also been a bird and a wolf in my dreams.

So, sorry, but you're WRONG. I don't know where you got your information but it wasn't very well researched.

Answer 10

Human beings can and do dream of being animals. I haven't polled everyone that I know but at least two of my friends and I have had dreams in which we were animals.

So, unless you want to argue that we're aliens or something, your premise is WRONG!