can you dream of somebody/something you have never seen before?

Answer 1

Plato's idea that there is a reality beyond the physical one, with souls that "know" everything and then reincarnate into bodies (us) so that we can "recollect knowledge" is as fascinating and mystical as it is absurd. It has had great success and it has been adopted by Christianity and all mystical thinking in general.

There is no evidence, of course, of the existence of independent floating souls, separate from the physical brain, thinking and having knowledge and then forgetting knowledge when it is time to re-enter the body! There is plenty of evidence that the brain is "working" while we sleep at reorganizing our experiences and in so doing creates thousands of possible and impossible associations, which we call dreams. Brain activities, both during the day when we are fully conscious and in the night when we sleep, end when the brain is dead.

Of course, we are free to BELIEVE (without a stitch of evidence) that we have a soul that has knowledge and does a lot of thinking on its own without a physical brain. There is no law against deluding oneself.

Answer 2

Yes, I believe that everyone can and does dream of somebody/something they have never seen because we have a soul that has prior knowledge of the universe and all within it and when we dream or think of things that we have never actually experienced we are actually recollecting that which our soul already knows. I hold to the Platonic philosophy that Plato that all human knowledge is simply recollection. He believed the soul was immaterial, i.e. immortal, and existed before inhabiting a body. In this form the soul had access to all knowledge. Therefore, when humans come to know something it is because our souls recollect what they knew before materializing in a body.

Answer 3

I have done it a number of times. I have dreamed of places that I had never seen before and some years later found them to be real places. It is... interesting, to say the least. I have no explanation for it. And, I don't expect anyone to believe it. I have some ideas, though.

Answer 4

This has happened to me on many occasions. I have even been other people in some of my dreams, once I was a woman who lived hundreds of years ago and I looked nothing like myself - but I was that person at that time (in my dream).
I've found myself in places and talking with people I've never seen or met and I've even spoken in other languages.
Dreams are very, very interesting - and sometimes quite strange.

Answer 5

Many times

Last may I dreamed myself hiking the South African mountains in a group of people led by an old black man, then I just forgot about the dream. Last summer when I went to West Africa, I met an old black man and as I was talking to him the dream came to my mind and I realized that the man, the face I had in my dream is the same I have in front of me.

Answer 6

A psychic phenomenon from an external source during sleep is not a dream. Such an unconscious non-dream would present new data not found in memory. Yes, but the likelihood of retaining detailed describable data is low.

Answer 7

Really Von? The soul's a priori knowledge? Somebody call Kant!

Answer 8

Yes. People will never understand the realm of souls, that from one level of mind all things exist in the now.

Answer 9

i agrea with carmella youre soul does travel when you are asleap and thats how you meat new people without knowing them. when that happens take a moment to talk to them even if they are strangers, they appeard in youre dream it must be a sign of something. i would advise to talk to them and see what they have to say.

Answer 10

yes I believe so. Can you invent something that doesn`t exist within the realms of your imagination? yes I think you can but that may just be my imagination hee hee