Is it strange for a child or teenager to have no dreams?

Question

Dreams as in goals, achievements in the future.

Ex. I want to be an actor when I grow up.

What will become of those who have no idea what they want to become?

Answer 1

It is necessary to understand clearly that sleep may be of different degrees, of different depths. We can be more asleep or less asleep, nearer to the possibility of awaking or further from the possibility of awaking.

We usually remember only those dreams which we have when near to the possibility of awakening. Dreams which we have in deep sleep, i.e. far from the possibility of awaking, we do not remember at all. People who say they do not remember dreams sleep very soundly. People who remember all their dreams or at any rate many of them are really only half asleep. The whole time they are near the possibility of awaking.

And, as a certain part of the inner instinctive work of our organism is best performed in deep sleep and cannot be well carried out when a man is only half asleep, it is obvious that the absence of deep sleep weakens the organism, prevents it renewing its spent forces and eliminating the used-up substance, and so on. The organism does not rest sufficiently. As a result it cannot produce sufficiently good work, is sooner worn out, more easily falls ill.

In a word, deep sleep, that is, sleep without dreams, is in all respects more useful than sleep with dreams. And the experimenters who encourage people to remember their dreams render them a truly bad service. The less a man remembers his dreams the more soundly he sleeps and the better it is for him.

Answer 2

I had dreams, but they were a waste of time.
My cousin and I wanted to be stewardesses (thats what flight attendants were called in the 60s)
But we both got too fat.
When I was in high school I didn't really have any dreams.
My grandmother had a cousin that enabled me to get into nursing and I thank her for it all the time, though she died in 1988 at the age of 92.
I really don't know what my future would have been if it hadn't been for her.
So I would say it is not strange, but they probably think about something they would like to do in the future and are just checking out all the possibilites before they really say what they want.
Kids change their minds about that just about every day or week anyway.

Answer 3

young children and teenagers have so much stuff to worry about in school as it is. when the time is right for them, they'll figure it out. pressing them into making a decision about their future now is only going to stress them out even more and possibly scare them from even wanting to go to college or what not. i didn't know what i wanted to be until i was almost a senior in highschool, i made my decision the summer before my senior year was to start. i'm a very successful woman now. i believe it's because i wasn't pressed into making up my mind, i did it on my own and knew it was what i wanted to do.

Answer 4

Probably live a cleaner and more productive childhood until the worries of growing-up and reality slaps them upside the head and really gives them dreams"nightmares"

Answer 5

It pretty much means that things are or are going to go the way you want. You have the strength to overcome a situation, no matter how overwhelming it is. You take control, you rise above the rest.

Answer 6

it's not strange, but it certainly is a bad sign. i mean, everyone should have dreams, however crazy as they may be. if you don't, you need to have passion and drive, and though not everyone has them at first, will develop them later in life. just give it time. :]

Answer 7

it is weird but that child must be going through a stage because all children goes through that stage when they are not sure of the future