Your Dreams

I once had a dream that two of my friends started dating, then two weeks later they did. I'm sure I only had that dream because they had been acting unusually affectionate toward each other in the days preceding it, but I still fancied myself as a seer for a week or two. A few weeks ago I went to see my great grandma, an Alzheimer's patient, at the Home. That night, I dreamt she went crazy, broke into the house and threatened me (as she has before). Anyway, it was strange because I swear the house I was staying at was haunted and I woke scared out of my wits. Dreams are fascinating. They usually aren't relevant to the waking world, but fun to ponder over.

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Originally Posted by Koa

Well honestly Em, with that avatar I can imagine anything, and worse!

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Not with my old avatar, though! :p The old one was representative of me, this one is more representative of. . .um. . .*cough*. . .well. . .*ahem*. . .erm. . .my "compliment," shall we say? ;)

As for dreams, I don't think they hold any significance as to the future, except in whatever perspective you gain from examining them. They're just your mind sorting through all the thoughts and emotions and memories of the recent past. The brain being a slave to its purpose of creating order from randomness, it creates little stories out of them. I think it can actually be dangerous to use your dreams as a guide for future choices, because there's no reason the conclusion drawn by the dream is a wise one; the reasoning part of your brain is asleep while you dream.

i think that dreams are relevant to the waking world, that some are precognitive, others can tune you in to your past, and that there are zillions of levels to them, from the material to the divine, including lucid and waking dreams, the latter being when an incident strikes someone in "waking" life with the symbolism/message(s) that dreams generally carry.
i also don't think it's a good idea to use dream books much, because only you can make your best dream dictionary.
i'm aware that i'm probably in the minority here, partly because i think that the mind is a good servant but a poor master to the true self, but dreams have prime importance in my life; i've studied mine for a couple decades and would be very incomplete without them.

That's cool. There are so many different approaches to the same reality; it makes more sense for many philosophies to be perfectly valid in the case of different individuals, than for there to be one true way of seeing. How could there be, when we're all so different? I agree that, even hypothetically, dream books are bogus, though. They follow the same basic formula as online quizzes.

well put as. i dont participate in this thread because i dont have dreams. well, let me rephrase that: i may have dreams but i very rarely (almost never) remember any bit of them.
i have had three dreams in my life that i remember, and i have remembered them for years as vividly as when they happened.
one was a purple octopus in my window (i was about five), one was my mother being stabbed in the stomach (thirteen?) and the other was a dream that i dont want to talk about, but was terrilby vivid, and true to my personality (it was reasonably recent too...hmmmmm.....).
my son however, is a lucid dreamer, and i wish sometimes that i had his mental abilities when im sleeping. i guess that when i fall asleep, im just so grateful to be sleeping that i dont want to interrupt it for anything. :yawnb:

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Originally Posted by verybaddmom

i may have dreams but i very rarely (almost never) remember any bit of them.

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Same here. But apparently we do dream every night, just some people don't remember dreams often.

Last night I dreamt of that guy again. I know cos I got up thinking noooo not again.... But I don't remember any details of it.

I hate that. Most nights (like last night) I absolutely know I dreamed a lot, but I can't remember any of it. Strange how there's a definite feeling like, "I dreamed last night." I wonder what it is? It's like a memory of a memory of a memory.

Az --

I had a dream last night that I went to visit you and your hubby. There wasn't really a plot, just random images and vague dialogue. But it was the kind of dream you think is real, and I woke up surprised that I didn't actually meet you. In the dream your hair was bleached orange. :lol: I was like, that doesn't seem like something Az would do. But the gist of the dream was you wanted to dye your hair, and were asking my opinion of these different color swatches, which you had narrowed down between three shades of cotton-candy pink and three of aqua/baby blue. :D I was very tactful, but wondered how it was possible to dye someone's hair that color. I'm still giggling.

ROFL :D
thank you for being tactful! how did you manage? :D

that's so cool that we "hung out." i had a dream about jay once, too. you guys are always welcome in my dreamland. :)

I had a dream about a month ago, where the Swedish king was on an oats-field and ate oats. Then the farmer, who owned the field, came, took the king and tied him to his wagon and took him home. But in home, there was the farmer's grandson, who had been studying in a university in Sweden, and therefore recognized the king.
"Oh, king," the grandson asked, "How can I possibly free you?"
"You can't," said the king, "But this woman - there was a woman besides the wagon- has given me, what a man needs most."
"What is that?" asked the student.
"Ribbons," answered the king.

And then i woke up.
Could anyone tell me what the dream could mean?

This wasn't a dream but fairly odd. I was (half) sleeping and I turned over, apparently too far and hit my head on my dresser. :brickwall The dresser is about 1 foot away from the bed so I can't imagine what I was doing. I have a nice little bump on my forhead now (easily covered with make up), has this ever happened to anybody else? Sleeping injury?

Oh yeah. I’ve bonked myself before. I should get rails for my bed. I’ve also been bonked by my athletic dreamer of a wife. The other night I’m lying in bed awake while she is dead to the world. Out of the blue, she sits bolt upright in bed, looks right at me, points her finger right in my face, and says, “youuuuuuu, ....get out!” then she flops back down and within 30 seconds she's snoring away. I’ve gotta tell ya, I was a bit unsettled.

Hi Sancho, please don't take this the wrong way but as I was posting this I was thinking that if this has happened to anybody else on this bored it would be you.

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Originally Posted by Sancho

. The other night I’m lying in bed awake while she is dead to the world. Out of the blue, she sits bolt upright in bed, looks right at me, points her finger right in my face, and says, “youuuuuuu, ....get out!” then she flops back down and within 30 seconds she's snoring away. I’ve gotta tell ya, I was a bit unsettled.

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I´m so glad I´m not the only one! Once I woke up in the morning and found my boyfriend on the floor. Innocently I asked him what he was doing there.
He claims to have had this dicussion with an evil version of me in the middle of the night-

Me -You have to get out.
Poor boyfriend - What? Why?
Me- You have to get out.
- But why?
- You can´t sleep here.
- But where am I going to sleep?
- You can´t sleep here. Go away.
- But it´s cold.
evil heartless me, staring straight at him- GO!

And he did. He slept on the floor the whole night.
I don´t remember any of it.

Well, it could be worse. A friend woke up, being pushed by his girlfriend hearing her say - No, no , don´t take me, take him.