Dreams

[DayBreak Bahamut]

WHoever gives a definition of dreams obviously doesnt know much about them, people are still scrambling to find out what dreams are. People think that nightmares are your fears, other people think that dreams are just thought going through ur mind while your sleeping - and portraying them as images. But the one I find most convincing ( But still dont believe ) is that dreams are recycled memories going through your mind. If you randomly thought about a pink elephant for even a second - its so useless that ur mind recycles it while you sleep. While mathematics is something you learn but that u do regularly in school - so ur brain keeps them. But I remember dreams much, the last dream i remember was about 2 years ago >.>

People say that people who dont dream AT ALL go insane because there mind has too much info. Which also goes with the recycling theory.

[Terminal Est]

Such is a theory.
While you sleep, your brain cleans itself up, so to speak. What one sees when they dream are parts of this work, and woould apperently have no important meaning whatsoever in one's everyday life.

However, dream intepretations may very well be false, I personally do not believe they mean anything, nor do I think they are part of prophecies or messages.
But humans have adapted their everyday thoughts and woes to the dreams they see, creating a link, therefore thinking such. A way to explain what, otherwise is inexplicable.

And as well, it would seem that through studies, many people will dream about a certain thing, and they would all claim it to represent the same thing.
So I think over the centuries, we have created our own interpretations, to the point that we believe them, weather they are true or not.
It goes a bit about the lines that in spirituality, humans might have created God.

Dreaming about about desires or obbsesion, however, seems a different matter, and I have no real thought on that, other then that I know it is quite a common thing. But is it healthy? If one's brain does indeed ''re-programs'' itself in slumber, it must be a hinder...

I once heard as well, that there is a nerve from the stomach connected to the brain, and so, digesting while sleeping causes ''nightmares''. It somehow messes up the brain while sleeping, which is why, other then several health reasons, it is discouraged to eat before going to sleep.
But why nightmares? Why such pictures? Does the brain work in such a way to warn the person not to do this? It gives you nightmares, so that you will no longer do it? Kind of like how pain gets one to take their hand off the stove.
Well, either way, one of the things we know for sure of dreaming is that the subconscious is a great part of it, and this a part of ourself, ironic as is, that we know little of.

A bit bogus, but this is the closest thing that to me, makes rational sense about dreaming.

[danica180]

I think that dreams are the opposite of whats going to happen in reality (I guess). In psychology I learned that there are kinds of dreams but I don't exactly know how to interpret dreams. One of which I can remember is the 'wishfulfillment dream'. For example there is this car that you really wanted to have but in reality you don't have money to buy it and then in your dream you bought that car because you won the lottery... It is only in this dream that your wish was fullfilled. I forgot the other kinds of dream but everything or some of the things that we really wanted to happen on exist in dreams. I think it has something to deal with our thoughts or the mind. Wherein we think about a certain thing the whole day and even up to our sleep we still thought about them and eventually dream it. But there is this certain dream that usually occurs wherein I was falling from a cliff or somewhere elevated and then I suddendly woke up and literally fell from the bed. Why is that so?

[The Graceful Assassin]

Well ya there isn't a definite definition of what dreams are, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun trying to interpret them.

As for me..... I don't think they are recycled memories because our brain doesn't need to be filtered with the massive confines of subconsciousness. I don't think they have a deeper meaning that your brain is trying to communicate with you. I think it's both. Random memories of conscious and sub conscious thoughts incorporated into sigmals of the brain that are applying logic to problems and solutions in our daily life.

Some believe them to be divine inspiration. I'm not really sure about that. But I believe that the more random your dream is, the more significant it is because it requires more memory incorporation in order to demonstrate what is truly on your mind, so to speak.

[Terminal Est]

As for me..... I don't think they are recycled memories because our brain doesn't need to be filtered with the massive confines of subconsciousness.

If not, then what makes it you remember a certain event, or thought which happened for real through a dream?

If it were not for the dream, never would you have remembered it.
Well..it is hard to say this, because such cannot be proven otherwise..but I deem it valid enough.

I think it's both. Random memories of conscious and sub conscious thoughts incorporated into sigmals of the brain that are applying logic to problems and solutions in our daily life.

That is extremely interesting actually.
But by this, do you mean that this applied logic is given to you (So to speak.) by the importance of what one sees in a dream, or is the dream itself an insignificant side effect of such workings?

Someone also mentioned the contrary...many believe that what one personally percieves within a dream actually represents the contrary of what will or has happened in reality. And the like.

Anyone have any thoughts on that?

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Originally Posted by DayBreak Bahamut

People say that people who dont dream AT ALL go insane because there mind has too much info. Which also goes with the recycling theory.

no this is not true, we all dream it just dose who can't remeber there dreams say they never had a dream, it is human nature to not look weak in fornt of other human, in so in not to say i can't remeber my dream, it is alot easyer to say i don't have and dream, also many people realy cant remeber them, most of the time i forgot my dream soon after i wake up.