Are dreams glimpses of the past, present and future rolled into a mini movie?

Question

Dreams are as elusive to me as reality sometimes tends to be. I have had dreams analyzed and interpreted in many different ways but none have made sense to me. Are dreams really shards of our past, present and future rolled into one? What do you think?

Thanks everyone I truly appreciate your views and ideas.

Answer 1

Yes to your own answer.

In addition, at higher levels of reality, dreams represent your journeys into non-physical realms.

At higher levels of reality there is no time. Everything is happening at once. When you wake up, it is very jumbled.

Your physical mind tries to make sense of the dream symbols that represent non-physical reality.

Answer 2

Dreams are our minds way of processing the day's events. Most dreams don't need interpreting. The only time I look closely at a dream and try to interpret it is if it's a recurring dream. I remember years ago I kept having dreams almost everynight about a bridge, I was driving on an unending bridge... once I finally figured out what my mind was trying to process, the dreams stopped and I haven't had it since.

Answer 3

Yah, in a way.

Dreams are just our subconscious minds "defragging" our memories of the day. So both long term and short term memory get rearranged and imagination gets mixed in with it.

If you could see a computer hard drive being defragged I can imagine it would appear very much like a dream, and just as difficult to interpret. If you saw random images and code flashing by could you tell which program(s) they came from?

You can see how it would be difficult to interpret dreams.

Answer 4

It sounds as if you are on the cusp of controlled dreaming. When you have achieved this ability you will be able to assign meanings to dreams and even tell yourself to wake up and have it happen.