Do any of you know about interpreting dreams?

My dreams have been bad for the last 3 1/2 years but in the last few months, they seem to be getting worse. my dreams always seem to be about someone trying to kill me and in the past three years I have dreamed that four out of my five kids have all been killed or died somehow.

Lately I’ve been dreaming about dead bodies all over the place. last night in my dream I was literally rolling up a dead body into a canvas or plastic tarp to stuff into my car.

I Don’t even have words for it at this point as to how I feel about all of this.

I have a really good life and I can’t think of anything that would be really troubling me to cause this and I don’t really watch TV at all and maybe one movie a week and it’s usually not even a scary movie so I don’t even know where this is coming from

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Northwest · M

I don't think there's a real explanation for dreams and what they mean. Multiple schools of thought though:

1. Psychological: Freudian Theory, Jungian Theory, Information Processing Theory.

2. Neuroscientific: Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis, Memory Consolidation (seems to make the most sense to me and both branches are connected).

3. Cultural and Spiritual Interpretations: Symbolism and Archetypes, Prophetic Dreams

4. Emotional and Stress-Related Theories: Emotional Processing, Stress and Anxiety

5. Personal Reflection: Self-Reflection and Insight

I also believe that #1, #3, #4 and #5, act as feeding mechanisms for #2, where the actual purpose of dreaming lies.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@Northwest Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Northwest · M

@JimboSaturn

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

That puts you in the Freudian camp 🤣 Unless, of course, you're Bill Clinton.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@Northwest Clinton would dream about the cigar to consolidate his memory of his day :P

Actually I'm not a big Freudian, everything is sex with that guy! I think I'm more in the memory consolidation camp or information processing, or emotional . Hell I don't know. lol