Do YOU think its POSSIBLE to MISS something you NEVER had or EXPERIENCED to begin with?

Question

...If so can you give examples? ..10 points to the best explanation..Thank you!

Lulubelle - Thats not silly! I'm sorry that he cannot hear you play but I'm sure you he would rather somebody played his beloved guitar than have for the guitar to sit in its case alone. Who knows? Maybe hes listening to you and I'm sure every note you play is music and beauty to his ears! :-)

Ultramad81 - I'm sure you would make a great mother, have you concidered adoption or other possibilities? There are plenty of children out there that would love to be nurtured! Don't give up hope! :-) Sometimes hope is all that we have.

En effet joie de vivre .. mci bcp :-)

Answer 1

Yes. For example, women who desperately want to become mothers but physically are unable. I think they "miss" the child(ren) they've dreamed about but never had, the pregnancy they've imagined but never were able to experience. I know for sure that many of these women grieve about not having / experiencing and what is grief but an extreme form of missing something or someone?

Answer 2

I don't know about being physically hurt during a dream but I have heard over the years that if you should dream you are falling off a cliff and you hit the ground it will kill you. I don't know that I believe that either but I almost found out one time. I was on a mountain top and lost my balance and fell. I remember the fear and horror of falling. I awakened before I hit the ground but my heart was beating a mile a minute and I could hardly breath. Makes me wonder if there was any truth the the old wives tale. Anyway, I don't believe you could have received a bruise or a cut directly from something that you experienced in a dream.

Answer 3

Yes. I can't have children and i miss that. I know it sounds crazy but i think about the potential children i could have brought into the world if things were different and i feel so terribly sad and i miss them (even though there is nothing for me to miss.) I guess this answer is a bit depressing but it was an honest answer.

Answer 4

At the unconscious level it may be very possible to inexplicably miss something, let's say some development in one's life, that one never had or never experienced to begin with.

There are more or less uncoscious needs that may start bothering one's soul, knocking from the inside of one's soul's door, in order to be allowed up to light to the conscious level where one may work or strive to give them fulfillment not even knowing how to.

There are undefined needs for development, obscure urges for a metamorphosis, which, when their time is getting over-ripe for them, may give you an unexplainable sense of uneasiness, of unrest, whereupon you may get an idea, as or from a dream, for example as an idea of leaving your place and maybe even traveling far away in a sort of adventure into a new place where you may work or study or get a new relation as a further development in your life that you may think was sent to you by your destiny.

If you act, if you start imagining a strategy, and so you prepare for the concretization of your new project,

your feelings of unrest may disappear, or become less urgent, and so you may get more and more enthusiastic, glowing, about your new idea that already had its own life in its own pre-world, of which we seem to know nothing about, that idea that was the voice of a need that craved to come up to light before you discovered it.

Answer 5

Yes and no at the same time. I think it is possible to have the feeling of missing something you never had before, while not really missing it. It's not necessarily missing the particular thing, it's wishing you had it, wanting it. So you can't really miss it, but you can feel like you miss it. For example, and orphan who's parents died at his birth can miss his parents without ever remembering he had them. But he is not literally missing them, he is just wishing he had them. Wanting parents. But not in a greedy way, like the normal "I wish I had a cell phone" as a normal kid would say. Just wishing he had them, almost as if he was missing them.
As I said, yes and no. It is just a matter of perspective.

Answer 6

Sure, for example, if your friend has a car that you REALLY want, and he sells it to someone who offers a higher price, then you can miss that car.

Relationships that stayed as friendships can be missed, that persons father can die in the army and they can move away, would would miss that person.

If someone buys a car for you, so you can use it till you get out of high school, or a financial bind, and you have to give it back as soon as you can, you can miss that car as well.

Answer 7

No. The grass is always greener.. lol.. I think we should learn to find enjoyment with the status quo. Be what we are. It is pointless to envy "things" we really don't need..

Think.. joie de vivre.. a keen enjoyment of living.. enjoy..!! ;-)

Answer 8

I believe that if you have a vivid imagination you can hypothesise a situation.... then if you don't experience that situation for real then you can miss your vivid imagination of that situation.... although you can't miss the real situation as you haven't experienced it. So i guess it's a no, you can't miss something you haven't experienced or never had. I do believe with our imaginations and feelings we can yearn for an experience we never had.

Answer 9

I miss having my grandfather, he died before I was born but from talking to my mum and other family members I really miss him in the sense that I would have loved to have the chance to know him. I have his violin and when I play I feel him near me, silly I know especially as my playing is rubbish and his was brilliant!!!!

Answer 10

Miss or yearn for ---I would think you would yearn for something that you have never experienced . I still yearn to have a child( Be pregnant). I don't miss the experience because I never had it .