Dreams are metaphors that...?

Question

let you know your emotional situations? Can anyone tell me what dreams are exactly and why are they so obscure and meant for interpretation? Do you think when we figure out how to use our dreams we can finally advance our brain power to the next level? How can one trigger a specified dream?

Answer 1

Dreams are our perception of the more or less random firings of our brains while we are asleep. When we drop into sleep (especially what is known as REM sleep) our bodies and brains are getting their needed rest and replenishment. Most healing takes place while we are asleep as well. Since our brain is part of our body, its actions continue while we are asleep, just like our heart and lungs. The brains actions are electro-chemical exchanges between the neurons (brain cells). While we are awake and alert, our inner sense of our brain's firing is very accurate. The brain reacts to the information from the senses and from other brain cells within itself while we are aware, but asleep, the brain turns inward.

Our brains most likely are doing a mixture of "filing" memories and tasks as well as some measure of random firing while we are asleep, and it is these firings that are interpreted by our sleeping "mind" as our dreams. The pre-frontal cortex is where most of our conscious mind resides, and it is this that is mostly shut off while we sleep, allowing the other parts of our brains to take over.

The "dreams" themselves are not something that "happens to us", but rather it is an active interpretation of the random firings of our sleeping brains. Dreaming is a much more active process that most of us realize. When one realizes this it is no wonder that they are obscure, it is a wonder that they make sense at all! It is an amazing feature of our minds that we are able to interpret the random firings of the sleeping brain and turn them into a recognizable narrative.

You should look into the phenomenon called "Lucid Dreaming". Lucid dreamers claim that they can consciously realize that they are dreaming and control the dream. In this way you would both remember your dreams better on waking, and be able to tap more deeply into the story, becoming as much of a writer as an actor in your dream scenarios. Some skeptics deny the possibility of Lucid dreaming, but there is science behind it, if someone were able to activate their pre-frontal cortex while asleep, it may be possible to control your dreams, and trigger a specific dream as well.

Answer 2

i think sometimes dreams can have specific meaning, other times they are just the working out of emotions, or the wanderings of the brain
such as, if you have unresolved anger within you, you may have a dream that has anger in it, you expressing anger, but yet the details/circumstances in the dream have no relevance at all, only the anger does, but at the same time, you could have a very peaceful dream, so you brain could go the opposite way,
so it , to me, is really hard to go threw them, if you dream alot, and find significance, though sometimes it does jump out at you
adding to the problem, i often fall asleep with the tv on low, and wake up dreaming about whatever is on it, lol

Answer 3

keep tryin' you can do this.