What are dreams? Who's to say whats reality n whats not?

Answer 1

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 2

I like your question :)

There once was a Chinese man, Hua Hua Zhang, who puzzled his brains with this question:
"Am I a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly asleep, dreaming he is a man?"

Dreaming is still a field in which some things are known and many things are unknown. Most dreams have a psychological character. They help you to deal with the day, to compensate things in your life, they can give clearity in our functioning during the day. Most dreams are purely symbolic.
If you know your own symbolism, or with the help of a good dreamwork therapist, dreams can learn you a lot about yourself.

But now to the reality question. Besides that symbolical dreams show us (if you are able to decypher them) where we are in life, and thus help us to find our dayly reality, there is also an other form of dreaming. Lucid dreaming it is called.

In lucid dreams you are aware of the fact that you are dreaming. This can make the dream very intens. All your senses seem to be highly active and those dreams feel very real.
What is reality?
Looking around in the world, everybody has his own sense of reality.
Put 6 people in a room and let them be silent for 10 minutes.
Every one will feel this silence different. One person might enjoy it, an other one might be annoyed, etcetera. They have different perception, and thus a different reality.
So, again, what is reality?

If you have a very vivid dream, a lucid dream in which you are highly conscious, then at that moment you feel it as a (dream-) reality. You live it, make choices in it, and can remember it afterwards. It might influence you. Does that mean it is not real? Well, yes and no I would say.
You are dealing there with the dreamreality. Which is not to be confused with the reality of the day.

The question 'what is reality' will keep us puzzled.

Answer 3

Waking Life is a good film on this subject, as is J. Allen Hobson's book Dreaming as Delirium: How the brain goes out of it's mind.
Richard Linklater describes a dream, and the characters from the dream appeared to him in everyday situations, and he spoke to a priest, who told him that the people were characters from the Book of Acts. The theory goes that the "real" world was created by a demon to deceive us from the truth. That is that there is no time and God is imminent. Gnosticism, the theories behind the Matrix, when Morpheus says that The Matrix is"the world that has been pulled over your eyes to deceive you from the truth"

Answer 4

There are different definitions of "dream" and it usually depends on the context in which you use it to determine which meaning you are thinking of.....

There are dreams people have while they are sleeping which are a collection of images that appear to the mind of the sleeper. These images can contain a mixture of real and imaginary characters, places, times, events and is considered involuntary....

Some people experience these images to the mind while they are awake, which also includes their thoughts and fantasies. They drift out of attentiveness of their physical surroundings and "day-dream" - which is considered voluntary.....

Dreams are also people's hopes, longings, or ambitions. These dreams are usually difficult to attain or seem far removed from the person's present circumstances and are sometimes impractical or unlikely to be attained.

Dreams also refer to something "beautiful" such as something or someone being particularly good-looking or wonderful, like the socially cultured: "McDreamy"......


Reality is defined as a real existence of actual being, as opposed to an imaginary, idealized, or false nature. It's defined as the totality of people, places, events, time (etc) in the world existing independent of people’s knowledge or perception of them. Reality is considered based on fact and objective findings in the notion of what actually existed or happened physically.


In my opinion, as far as reality goes, there has never been anything more subjective.....

The mind is a beautiful and powerful tool capable of so much more than already demonstrated. Scientists will work endlessly to uncover the wonders and full potential of the human mind.

Having said that, we also know that physics aside, what the mind perceives as being real is what is communicated to the body as being real.

While asleep, people will have dreams in which they are fighting or climbing and when they wake up - will sometimes experience those muscle pains they experienced in their dream.

Most often in sleep, the dreamer realizes it is a dream - and sometimes can even manipulate the dream (albeit perhaps unconsciously). However, some people will dream and even after waking up, will carry that dream with them as an experience because it felt completely real to them - not just mentally, but physically.


If you are looking for what's real to you - you simply have to believe it.......

If you are looking what's real to others - it can exist without you. It is not dependent on your thoughts or opinions, but rather facts and happenings as it relates to others and in the universe.

Answer 5

"The truth is stranger than fiction based on fact"! The answer is "daymares"! People are not aware for the most part, how the word "mare" in these terms , is really latin, and means the seas,(oceans), and are used to refer to the emptiness , the void in which we exist while dreaming, "any time of day"! This word has nothing to do with horses! In spanish it is "LOS MARES"!
Therefore all times of day are in the mares, and therefore all dreams! Reality is a condition of existence which exists in the moment! Reality is always "NOW"!

Answer 6

Hi,
Reality is the real stuff, and if you know why I dreampt of being aboard the space shuttle, filling up ink-wells for folks to write with a feather quill, I would love to hear the analysis !
I suppose is that I love flight, and used to deal with the ink at school, but who knows ?
I love dreams, and have started to write them all down in the morning.
No, the only drugs that I do are tobacco & a few beers.

All the best with your dreams.
Bob

Answer 7

Dreams are the unconcious brain sorting out emotional issues and events. Dreams are not consistant from day to day, and can not be relayed in the same way we can relay information in waking life. That's why we call waking hours reality and sleep hours dreams.

Answer 8

Dreams are the brains way of resolving unresolved issues, feelings and thoughts. I went to a seminar a few years ago, which was held by Mindfields College, London. The main presenter was (Dr or Professor) Joe Griffin, who is an absolutely amazing and interesting person. He has developed a way of conducting counselling which relies on the way that the brain works. He described it as "flags" in the brain and helps the brain to re-route it's way of thinking, in order to prevent negative associations. He described the way that dreams work, saying that in order for the brain to resolve issues that are unresolved, the brain works during sleep to complete the cycle of unresolved issues. It was totally fascinating and he explained it much better than I have done!!! Please see that attached link if you are interested.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Dreams are the subconscious' continued operation. They are actually going on all the time, but you can't interpret them while awake because then your conscious mind is trying to make rational sense of what your brain is processing, while your subconscious is just free-forming nonsensically.

As for who says what is real and what is not, I think I can: "Real" is whatever is going on outside of your head. "Not" is what goes on inside of your head. What goes on inside your head really is real, of course, in the context of your brain constantly synapsing and processing more and more information. For example, if you are really reading this, then something is really going on inside of your head in the processing of it.

If, however, you see angels and goblins flying over Times Square on a busy work day, that is something going on inside of your head, and therefore isn't real, because it's not happening outside of your head.

Rather like painting images on glasses that you wear - sure, you're seeing strange stuff, but it isn't actually out in the real world with the rest of us. The only "real" bit about it is the paint or ink or whatever you smeared on your glasses.

Neat question though!