Dreams as opposed to reality?

Question

i remember many of my dreams, and most of them are very enjoyable even if something relatively uneventful happens, i enjoy thinking about my dreams.

so if i can remember everything about the experiences i had in a dream, would that in turn actually make them reality?

PS. please dont say "well you are real so your thoughts are real as well"

Answer 1

This is an interesting question,I suppose they are very much a reality,as real as anything in life.You invest in them the same emotions,the same sort of rememberance as things that occur conciously,if you pay attention to them you find exactly the same lessons as life teaches only in a clearer form.

Out of all the zillions of the things we see over a lifetime,our minds seem to pick and select only the parts which it knows to have meaning if you are willing to find it within a dream.

Even if someone else were to say they were are an illusion,they would still be a reality known only to you.

Your mind can create almost anything and that is true for you.

Answer 2

No. if you make your dreams your reality then you are living a double life. One life real and the other an imitation. To do this is also dangerous because as time goes by the line between truth and fantasy become blurred and after a while you cannot tell the difference between the two. MY suggestion would be for you to go out and get a life. I don't say this to be cruel but if you are even thinking these thoughts then you don't have a life to fill the void. Good luck to you.

Answer 3

Not actually no. They would become reality if the dream actually happened during your waking hours. The feelings we experience whilst dreaming are real but the experience that causes those emotions is not, it is a subconcious manifestation of thoughts and feeling even we weren't aware of having. Lots of people remember dreams clearly, but usually not every single one. I'm of the opinion that the dreams we remember most clearly are the ones we have to pay the most attention to as they are your minds way of asking you to address some issues or problems you've chosen not to recognise. Buy yourself a dream dictionary and find out what your subconscious is trying to tell you.

Answer 4

Dreams


There are many theories as to what dreams are although no one can prove their theories, this subject will always be up for debate.
There are five basic human senses that normal people have. Those being sight, sound, taste, scent and touch. These senses are like probes sending information back to the brain. During times when we are awake these senses work picking up all sorts of information some new and some that has been picked up before. In order for our senses to continue to work in this manner we put up blocks inside our minds to sort out unimportant information that we do not need at the time. Although we can not stop the information we are able to for the most part not dwell upon it. Through a very small percentage of our brains we can call up information to help us function normally and still be able to do problem solving if we should need to.
During our sleep time our senses slow down as there is not much information to gather up which allows our brains to speed up to process all of the information our senses picked up. At this time our brains working percentage is very high and the blocks we put up are no longer there. All the information we gathered are now speeding through our minds sorting them and placing them in our minds filing system. The small percentage of brain that controls the senses catches glimpses of this information and tries to analyze it by placing them together like a puzzle. When things do not add up to make sense to us we then search for information to fill in any empty spaces in these thoughts. We also visualize this information using thought images which are what we call dreams. We are able to do this by using the information that our sight sense had picked up.
In our dreams we seem to defy normal laws of nature. Where as we can sometimes float or fly. Animals sometimes talk. In short while we are dreaming anything the human mind can imagine can happen in our dreams.
Our emotions play a key role setting our moods and the direction our dreams will go. If we are upset or scared this will dictate our dreams to react in a negative way and if we are happy or excited then they will react in a positive way.
To understand dreams we must understand how the mind pieces them together. It is a large percentage of new information and a small percentage of old information. Our short term memory we have plays the larger percentage role and is the key element in which our dreams are based on. Our long term memory are fillers to make what we see blend together.
When we wake up sometimes we can recall a dream but this is mainly based on our emotional state of mind. Many say they do not dream often and that isn't possible. What has happened was their emotions were basically neutral during sleep that their dreams won't be recalled. The more emotional we are when we slept and when we had become awake, the more detail we remember which will also dictate how long we can maintain it's memory. In some cases the dream can be so dramatic that we allow the dream itself to become a memory which can be bad and trick our minds into thinking this event really took place. We tend to dwell on the dream or try and figure it's meaning out which will do more harm than good. We can see the effects of holding unto these false memories through people experiencing deja vu, which is a minor effect but can also be seen in more harmful effects such as dilutions, paranoia, schizophrenia.
The plain and simple truth is our dreams are our thoughts and images we encounter and nothing more. Putting too much stock in predicting the future or having hidden mental abilities through our dreams can cause you more harm than good. Best to let them fade away.

Answer 5

Dreams aren't reality. Although you really did think them. Our memories are also false, so even things we think we know actually did happen because we remember parts of the incident may not actually be real, but a figment or creation of our imagination. You must be a deep person.

Answer 6

You experience dreams; they're a part of your reality. They're a different level of experience, though -- you can't confuse it with the reality of your waking life.
You do things in dreams. You're not always in control of what happens. It's reality of a different sort.

Answer 7

Dreaming is our sub consciousness trying to make sense of reality.

Mind you, I have some bloody strange dreams sometimes; though I do think this might be down to alcohol.

Answer 8

to me, they are real dreams, but not reality as we think of in our lives,,,,,,,, you are not actually doing the things you seem to do in a dream, nor having conversations with the people in your dreams,,,, your mind is making the whole "story" up,,, so no,,,, its not real
that is unless you "astro-surf" and literally leave your body while sleeping, as some people think is possible,, but in that case, you would not "be " in the dream, but observing others doing real things , your mind would just travel there,,,, not sure i believe its possible, but who knows

Answer 9

a simpler suggestion would be to say we portray realism in our dreams..and sometimes i believe we "contact" our outer realm of reality...thereby opening up a world to us we would not normally be exposed to. so in fact...dreams in their state could be explained as an extension of our own hold on reality, thus concluding that reality directly affects our dreams.
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Answer 10

Probably a site like http://www.ihadadreamlastnight.com will help you out. There is a lot of content regarding dreams there