what do dreams mean?

Question

where do dreams come from. sometimes I dream about a girl I like and sometimes I cant remember. where do dreams come from. have a nice day

Answer 1

The theory on dreams is that they are your brain's way of integrating your experiences into long-term memory while you sleep. So, they draw a lot on your experiences, memory, and daily life. They are very personal. The dream books and internet sites are probably of little use to you. Suppose you dreamt of a cow. The cow could mean one thing to you and something completely different to someone else. For example, one dream interpretation site says that dreaming of a cow "signifies your obedience to authority without question." However, what if you grew up on a farm and you had a pet cow? That cow would mean something more than "obedience to authority." I don't even know how someone got obedience from a cow. There's no science to that.
I'm not saying that dreams aren't symbolic. They totally are, however, the symbolic meaning really varies from person to person. If you are wondering about a weird dream, ask yourself, "What is going on in my life that sort of relates to that dream?"
Let's go back to the dream about the cow. Let's say you had the dream about the cow and you ask, "What's going on in my life that sort of relates to that cow?" Maybe another pet of yours died. Or maybe your pet cat had kittens. Maybe you were really disgusted by ground beef yesterday. Maybe someone hit you with a cattle prod (that's the only way I could see the obedience interpretation). These are all things that will trigger your long-term memory of that cow.

I know that a lot of people are going to hate this response, but dreams can be interpreted, but you need to interpret them and try to base your interpretations on your life and your experiences, not a book, website, or what other people tell you.

Answer 2

Dreams come from your soul and are intended to help you progress along your life path. In sleep the focus of the physical world and the body is on hold and during this period your soul has a perfect opportunity to dialogue with your conscious mind... or so it would appear. The problem here is that the subconscious never sleeps. Think of the subconscious like a faithful dog always on guard to protect its master. Your soul asks the conscious mind to make a change to some aspect of functioning in order to avoid a particular undesirable outcome. Let's take a very common example. Say your soul wants you to be less analytical / rational in your approach to life and to incorporate intuition / feelings into the decision making process. It dispatches a dream for this purpose. Ideally the dream is received and your conscious mind accepts the direction of your soul and begins a program to change in this direction. The more likely outcome, however, is that your subconscious mind asserts itself in the dream and provides all sorts of reasons why this change should be avoided. Due to this, the message / request in the dream is effectively spoiled.

Answer 3

In religion called JAINISM this dream has proved many time TRUE! If want more detail than go to site www.jainworld.com Scientifically it is related to your UN full filled wish and strong wish but unable to achieve it! Sometimes it carry some signals of past life ! Means Life before this running life! There are many such cases reported through out world but UN fortunately there is no scientific proof available! It is observed that the dream in early morning in-between 3 to 5 am if comes, it carries the meaning! I myself have wondered that on previous night I had a dream that my old patient is visiting my clinic and to my surprise I found her in my clinic very next day when actually she was thousand miles away from my country gone to live abroad and was never ever for to come back! Not only at one occasion but more than 3 times I have realized this dream come true! But again it all depends on many un believable factors! Like Innocent thinking! Believing in non-violence and universal forgiveness! Praying for good to any living creature maximum time and some helping soul! But people like you only can understand it if they see proof their own eyes! So it is useless to argue anything to you! To understand what electricity is people like you will touch it and than will believe it !If not in present life but in some life you will get it ! That’s my hope! Of course many dreams has no meaning and are short living things! I feel sorry if i have hurt you with personal comment! If so plz forgive me! Always YouRsmE

Answer 4

According to the activation-synthesis theory of dreams, dreams have no meaning at all. (Sorry, that may not be what you wanted to hear.) I wouldn't think too hard about the dream you're having about that girl if I were you.

Although dreams are influenced by our thoughts throughout the course of the day, this does not mean they are special messages to us that we should carefully consider.

Here's one perspective:

"Activation Synthesis Theory is a neurobiological theory of dreams, put forward by James Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, which states that dreams are a random event caused by firing of neurons in the brain. This random firing sends signals to the body's motor systems, but because of a paralysis that occurs during REM sleep, the brain is faced with a paradox. It synthesizes a narrative by drawing on memory systems in an attempt to make sense of what it has experienced."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_synthesis_theory

Thanks for the great question!

Answer 5

From your subconscious. Somethings sit way deep in your mind that you ignore. If they are strong enough feelings, no matter how much you ignore them, they will come out in your dreams. However the dreams usually don't have anything to do with what you see in them. For instance, death means ending an old way of life and starting a new drastic change in your life. Colors in your dreams have meanings, and so forth.

Answer 6

Sometimes, dreams can be understood in the the context of repressed thoughts. Dreaming serves as an outlet for those thoughts and impulses we repress during the day. When we go to sleep at night and slip into our dream state, we feel liberated and behave and act in a manner that we do not allow ourselves in our waking life.

Answer 7

A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. It occurs in humans, most mammals, and some birds. [1] The events of dreams are often impossible or unlikely to occur in physical reality, and are usually outside the control of the dreamer. The exception is lucid dreaming, in which dreamers realize that they are dreaming, and are sometimes capable of changing their oneiric reality and controlling various aspects of the dream, in which the suspension of disbelief is often broken.[2] Dreamers may experience strong emotions while dreaming. Frightening or upsetting dreams are referred to as nightmares.


From the 1940s to 1985, Calvin S. Hall collected more than 50,000 dream reports at Western Reserve University. In 1966 Hall and Van De Castle published The content analysis of dreams in which they outlined a coding system to study 1,000 dream reports from college students. It was found that people all over the world dream of mostly the same things. Hall's complete dream reports became publicly available in the mid-1990s by Hall's protégé William Domhoff allowing further content analysis.


Emotions
The most common emotion experienced in dreams was anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive feelings. Some ethnic groups like the Yir Yiront showed an abnormally high percentage of dreams of an aggressive nature. The U.S. ranks the highest amongst industrialized nations for aggression in dreams with 50 percent of U.S. males reporting aggression in dreams, compared to 32 percent for Dutch men.


Gender differences
In men's dreams 70 percent of the characters are other men, while a female's dreams contain an equal number of men and women. Men generally had more aggressive feelings in their dreams than women, and children's dreams did not have very much aggression until they reached teen age.[14] Recent research has shown that gender differences are not innate biological differences but rather reflective of each gender's role in society. For example, a woman with a more masculine personality is more likely to experience aggressive dreams.


Sexual content
Sexual content is not as prevalent in dreams as one might expect. The Hall data analysis shows that sexual dreams show up no more than 10 percent of the time.


Recurring dreams
While the content of most dreams is dreamt only once, most people experience recurring dreams—that is, the same dream narrative is experienced over different occasions of sleep. Up to 70% of females and 65% of males report recurrent dreams

Answer 8

Where do they come from is complicated. From daily life, from your mind reviewing and problem solving during the night, from desires.

What dreams mean is even more complicated. Freud wrote a book on what symbols in dreams can mean, but it's more important what they mean to YOU. If you think about it you'll understand - think about what certain things mean to YOU.

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Answer 9

Dreams are ones unconscious thoughts. Dreaming are a part of ones rem sleep pattern. We forget most of these dreams upon waking.

Answer 10

depends who you ask, lots of different psychologists and theorists have different ideas on what dreams are, and what they mean, you should try googleing personality theorists, that comes up with a load of stuff some of it about dreams, some not, but all of it quite interesting (oh, and don't get too bogged down in freud, the man was a little bit unstable himself!)