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megrose · 56-60, F
It certainly sounds symbolic. I find there are some dreams you remember clearly even years later. I have had a few of those which I believe had significant meanings. Then there are themes that keep repeating in dreams. My repeating themes are 1. Trying to find my way out of a house of mazes.
2. Missing the bus, train, plane.
3. Being in Highschool not able to remember where I am supposed to be or do t know how to get to my class.
4. Being hours or days late for work and not remembering where I am supposed to be.
5. Stuck on a fast moving elevator, cant get out.
6. In a driverless car, drives into a river. About to drown
Then there are other dreams I had only once but remember them clearly and they left me feeling very good or very sad all day.
2. Missing the bus, train, plane.
3. Being in Highschool not able to remember where I am supposed to be or do t know how to get to my class.
4. Being hours or days late for work and not remembering where I am supposed to be.
5. Stuck on a fast moving elevator, cant get out.
6. In a driverless car, drives into a river. About to drown
Then there are other dreams I had only once but remember them clearly and they left me feeling very good or very sad all day.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
No, not really, though it is common to include real places, people or events in these fleeting things.
Mine normally invent highly-detailed but totally fictitious locations with or without real companions. Sometimes they recall former work-colleagues but in [i]very[/i] surreal images of the work-place.
Dreams, however vivid, are very brief, insubstantial and thought to be a by-product of the brain's memory "house-keeping" necessary, while it has made us sleep so it can do Very Important Things (including simply keeping us alive) without us distracting it. We normally forget them very rapidly on waking, too; so rapidly that you can think you did not dream anything even when you did in fact.
Those who want to "analyse" or "interpret" dreams are either just plain wrong, or are trying to extract money from the gullible by writing books purporting to do those things.
They work, so to speak, by applying vague generalising and leading questions so that if they make you recall a dream that somehow matches one of their generalisations, you tend to latch onto it and think the tenuous co-incidence, "proof". It's a simple but very old trick, developed down the ages by prophets, fortune-tellers, astrologers and other such soothsayers - too many of them fraudulently, too.
Mine normally invent highly-detailed but totally fictitious locations with or without real companions. Sometimes they recall former work-colleagues but in [i]very[/i] surreal images of the work-place.
Dreams, however vivid, are very brief, insubstantial and thought to be a by-product of the brain's memory "house-keeping" necessary, while it has made us sleep so it can do Very Important Things (including simply keeping us alive) without us distracting it. We normally forget them very rapidly on waking, too; so rapidly that you can think you did not dream anything even when you did in fact.
Those who want to "analyse" or "interpret" dreams are either just plain wrong, or are trying to extract money from the gullible by writing books purporting to do those things.
They work, so to speak, by applying vague generalising and leading questions so that if they make you recall a dream that somehow matches one of their generalisations, you tend to latch onto it and think the tenuous co-incidence, "proof". It's a simple but very old trick, developed down the ages by prophets, fortune-tellers, astrologers and other such soothsayers - too many of them fraudulently, too.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Really Possibly, if the dream is closely related to something significant. There are anecdotes of people claiming waking from a dream in which they had solved some difficult real problem or been inspired creatively.
I have had such dreams but only very occasionally, about remembering something important I needed to do.
Otherwise most of my dreams are totally surreal nonsense or in totally fictitious locations; but still refer vaguely to places or people I know or have known, such as former work colleagues. The most recent I recall had me single-handedly building a small swimming-pool at work (which had no such thing in reality) by apparently casting it in one piece.... but forgetting a swimming-pool has to be hollow and open-topped. "Meaning"? None at all save recalling one real person.
I have had such dreams but only very occasionally, about remembering something important I needed to do.
Otherwise most of my dreams are totally surreal nonsense or in totally fictitious locations; but still refer vaguely to places or people I know or have known, such as former work colleagues. The most recent I recall had me single-handedly building a small swimming-pool at work (which had no such thing in reality) by apparently casting it in one piece.... but forgetting a swimming-pool has to be hollow and open-topped. "Meaning"? None at all save recalling one real person.
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bookerdana · M
Your dreams sound entertaining.
Yes they have meaning. The mind processing it experiences in creative and lateral thinking ways.
Here's an interpretation method taught me by a friend decades ago...
Write the dream.
Make a list of the key words.
Imagine an alien, someone with no knowledge of anything on this planet, asking the meaning of each word; write the meaning of the word in a way he could understand.
Now sit back and look at the meanings taken as a whole.
The dream's meaning will become obvious.
Yes they have meaning. The mind processing it experiences in creative and lateral thinking ways.
Here's an interpretation method taught me by a friend decades ago...
Write the dream.
Make a list of the key words.
Imagine an alien, someone with no knowledge of anything on this planet, asking the meaning of each word; write the meaning of the word in a way he could understand.
Now sit back and look at the meanings taken as a whole.
The dream's meaning will become obvious.
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Sazzio · 31-35, M
No dreams do not mean anything. They're just figment of one's imaginations. Nothing more, nothkng less.
LordShadowfire · M
@Sazzio Not true. Very often, dreams are your subconscious minds way of telling you something.
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