Last night i had a dream where i was living with my parents and siblings again and we were all living in this country house and had lots of animals. i would put a dog in one of the rooms and when i came back the dog had turned into a dinosaur and the room was filled with these animals that were half one animal and half one animal. i got scared and threw a match in the room and burned it. the next thing that happened was that i would say goodnight to my dad who was sleeping in his bed and then turned around and he was standing in front of me. then my sister would tell me that she's gonna sleep in the corner bedroom and i'd see her go into the room and close the door and then i'd walk in to the kitchen and my sister was sitting there eating and i asked her who was that who just went in to bedroom and we saw her clone coming into the kitchen but then she turned invisible which scared me and that's when i woke up. any ideas why i saw this creepy dream?
2007-04-03 00:20:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I guess that something about one of your siblings or parents is irking you, and you don't believe they're what they appear to be.
The warning here is that when something isn't what it's supposed to be, do something other than torch it. Perhaps this is a strategy you've used before in the past, and your dream is warning you that if you adopt this approach it won't have the desired effect this time.
2007-04-03 00:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by Dogstarrr 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anyone with a little imagination could interpret your dreams for you, but their answer, no matter how interesting, wouldn't be true.
Here's why:
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.
By the way, there is nothing random about this process, but your subconscious mind can come up with connections that your conscious mind would never dream of (!), which is why dreams often seem pretty weird.
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
2007-04-03 00:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whonose above me is 100% correct. Remember what he is explaining to you and it will last a lifetime. Good luck! @8-)
2007-04-03 01:13:11 · answer #3 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋