Do dreams reflect one's secret desires/wishes/things one should do, but hasn't realised yet?

Question

Pls state yr proof/evidence & sources, such as sites you used for reference. Thanks!

Answer 1

Dreams are useful in learning more about the dreamer's feelings, thoughts, behavior, motives, and values.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that your dreams reflect your own underlying thoughts and feelings, and that the people, actions, settings and emotions in your dreams are personal to you. Some dream experts theorize that there are typical or archetypal dreams and dream elements that persist across different persons, cultures, and times. By thinking about what each dream element means to you or reminds you of, by looking for parallels between these associations and what are happening in your waking life, and by being patient and persistent, you can learn to understand your dreams. It can be helpful to keep a dream diary and reflect on many dreams over a long period of time to get the truest picture of your unique dream life.

Answer 2

Yes dreams reflect things on our waking life.

I still remember I asked one question here, as I am looking for the answer about my dreams. I dreamed of one location in Thailand where the sixth king was born and the exact location where I stand is exactly the same as what I have seen in my dream.

Last week I remember that my closest freind is waving his hand, in my dream I didnot understand what he ment. I phone him and I told him about that. The dream goes something like this he has a back pack and he is waving his hand while smiling then I am confused why is he doing that. And that event exactly happen.

I can suggest that you find meaning of your dreams to www.hyperdictionary.com, dream dictionary

Answer 3

Indeed they do. Dreams are subconscience reflections of things that constantly dwell in you conscience mind. I have been able to interpret many of my dreams. In the latest one I dreamed my daughter who has left home to pursue her education and is on her own now. In the dream she was a toddler. I was playing with her just like I used to. She was laughing and talking in baby gibberish. wearing a little dress that i loved to dress her in because she looked so cute in it. Then the dream changed and she was crying. She told me she didn't feel well. I picked her up and held her and she died in my arms.
It was awful but this was my interpretation....
I miss her. To make up for her absence I spend a lot of time thinking about her and reliving the memories she's left here. Her not feeling well could mean that maybe she's homesick. And dying in my arms signified that she doesn't live at home anymore.

Answer 4

The brain does some basic housekeeping tasks, like shuffling memories, allocating them a different address in the brain, and many others. Just as one would see light when one pressed his eyeball, as the same part of the brain,the occipital cortex, was being activated,through his retina; one would naturally see dreams when the areas storing the visual 'patterns' were activated in sleep. You can visit the following link to see how dreams not only reflected but also fulfilled these eminent scientists' desires.

Answer 5

I just watched a dream interpreter on the Today Show and she said that our dreams do reflect what is going on in our lives that is in our subconcious. If you dream about falling, it could be that we fear losing our job or position or even status. Dreams tell us what we fear, wish for or want to run away from. Her site is TheDreaminterpreter.com

Answer 6

Personally, I seem to notice that all my dreams are things that will not happen. example: If I dream of someone (or myself) being on a boat and sinking, it will never happen. If I dream of me myself haveing 4 kids, it will never happen. Are you getting my jist? Dreams seem to always revolve around things you will never get (good or bad). So whenever I have a dream about "Anything" I always know that that will never happen to me.

Answer 7

The purpose of dreams, as far as we understand them, is to process the vast amount of information that comes in through your senses each day whilst you're awake.

On this basis the "meaning" of your dreams is simply that you are making sense of information which previously didn't have a "meaning", for you, because it hadn't been processed so as to fit into your mental maps of the world (all your existing beliefs, ideas, values, etc.).

Given what seems to be going on, it's not really surprising that lots of things appear in your dreams that have nothing to do with what has been happening in your life just before the dream occurs. Things can appear in your dreams that have been part of your memories as far back as you started forming memories - or anytime in between then and now.

Nor do the things in your dreams have to be obviously related to each other. Like I said, dreaming is a process of finding/making meaning, and the brain can draw from anywhere in its huge store of memories in order to carry out that process.

So when, if ever, you happen to notice yourself having what seems like a weird dream in future you can literally rest assured that everything is OK. Your brain is actually doing, with great skill, one of the jobs it was designed to do

Answer 8

thats true that dreams reflect our unfulfilled desires and wishes. read freud's psychoanalysis theory and some more literature on dream analysis

Answer 9

Garlic gives you crazy dreams. That doesn't mean you should change your life whenever you eat spicy food.

Answer 10

Yes. May be, No. See a psychiatrist, and spare us on this website.