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Post by Phoenix84 on Jul 9, 2013 15:18:45 GMT -5
Dreams (and/or nightmares)
What do they mean to you? Do you perscribe any higher meaning to dreams? Or do you view them as the simple, random firing of neurons in your brain during your REM cycle.
Also, do you have nightmares? Does anything in particular give you nightmares?
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Post by imawino on Jul 9, 2013 15:25:48 GMT -5
In general I assign no meaning to dreams - weird shit happens in them! Sometimes you can tell that you are dreaming about a specific person or thing because it is on your mind or stressing you out, but I don't think the actions in the dream need to be interpreted in any special way.
I used to have horrible, terrifying nightmares when I was young and had phases when I was very afraid to go to sleep. But that went away and I just have nightmares once in a while which seems to be pretty normal.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 9, 2013 15:27:38 GMT -5
I think they have a lot to do with real life or stresses/worries one has in their lives or whatever is on their minds which could include happy dreams. I mostly have happy dreams but last week I had one that was about my shrubs. I have Viburnums in my back yard that are thick and tall and they needed to be groomed and lowered a bit to look good in my garden. I've asked our landscapers for 2 months to please "flat top and clean them up a bit" to be more manicured looking as our Crepe Myrtles are blooming out and that is their back drop. I dreamt that Shawn got mad at me for calling him again to have them done and he whacked them down to only 3 feet. They are about 7 feet tall. In my dream I was at first upset. But then I said to DH "Actually - they still look good even that short." He came yesterday and did them the way I wanted and apologized that he was so behind due to all the rains we've been having. I'm very anal about my garden. But I prefer my sex dreams with a no face hot stranger. Maybe the Viburnums will be the back drop of the next one.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 9, 2013 15:31:41 GMT -5
If my dreams mean something, I'm in trouble. I have some weird dreams. Mine are usually based on TV shows I just watched. I really like the Supernatural ones especially if I get to make out with Jared Padalecki. Does that mean he's spirtually bonded to me? I rarely remember my nightmares anymore. I've had some doozies. One of the worst ones was when I was pregnant, if I believed I'd swear I actually went to hell. I didn't sleep for the rest of the night.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 9, 2013 15:32:33 GMT -5
I don't really give them higher meanings and they aren't random firing of neurons. I tend to incorporate things from the recent past (a TV show, some real life experience, some memory that something in real life triggered) into my dreams. My dreams also seem to be driven by current strong emotions: stress, anxiety, anticipation, worry, etc. that I'm experiencing at that time. Sometimes I don't realize how strongly something is effecting me in real life - until I have a dream that may have been spawned/drawn from that/those life events. My anxiety dreams usually have me loosing my teeth. (probably because I'm grinding my teeth in my sleep and my jaw hurts). These dreams are usually pretty distressing and I wake up with a start. Other popular dreams - I've lost one of my cats and I can't find them. I'm 'lost' in a familiar place but can't seem to get to whereever I'm suppose to be (the local shopping mall, walking around my neighborhood, on one of the cube maze floors at the office... you get the idea). Sometimes I'm at the Opera House (or a large theater - and there are stairs and red curtains and I can't find my seat or the exit door (BattleStar Galactica was very startling to me - cause I've been in that dream like "Opera House" many a time since HS). Death usually shows up in alot of my dreams as well. I don't talk about these dreams cause they make other people uncomfortable. FWIW: My neice was going thru alot of life changes and she confided that she was dreaming about people dying.... I asked if I had died yet (with a smile) and said those kinds of dreams are about 'change' and 'upheaval' in ones life and weren't bad... just that she was moving out of the 'same old same old' to something new and different in life. And that she should acknowledge (grieve) abit that life the way she knew it was over - but that a new phase would begin. We all go thru this kinda stuff (except for maybe the 40yo who still lives in his parent's basement) The only nightmares I have tend to be really amped up anxiety dreams - so loosing teeth, or a lost cat, or me being lost - but really really really intense.
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Post by Pants on Jul 9, 2013 15:38:32 GMT -5
I don't think they have higher meanings, but I don't think they are necessarily random either. I think that a lot of times your dreams tell you a lot about what's going on in your life as your subconcious brings stuff up. But I definitely don't think they tell the future or can help guide you or anything. Just bringing little things to the surface. Like last night I had a weird dream about my parents and a hotel and woke up remembering I had actually doublebooked next weekend with my parents and a friend. It also featured deep-fried pine branches as an in-room scent/decor accent, but that seems to have nothing to do with anything.
Apparently sleep and dreams are key to memory, so it makes sense that dreams might trigger thoughts in waking life and vice versa.
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Post by midjd on Jul 9, 2013 15:43:01 GMT -5
My dreams don't usually require much deep thinking to interpret - I'm literal even while asleep
I'd say half of them are good/neutral and the other half are stress-induced. Often I'll have a dream about something that's not even on my mind, so at least for me it's a good way to work through things that are bothering me (consciously or not).
Lately I've been having a lot of variances on the same dream - I'm somewhere with my family/DH and I need to be somewhere else for whatever reason and they are being slow as hell, so I'm yelling at them that I'm going to be late and they need to hurry up. Usually IRL I'm the one being told to hurry up, so I'm not sure how to interpret that one
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 9, 2013 15:45:03 GMT -5
I did have one dream I could have subscribed a deeper meaning too. I had a dream I took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. I decided why not and took a test that morning and discovered I was pregnant with Gwen.
In reality we were TTC so I had pregnancy on the brain. Sure was eerie though when those pink lines appeared.
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Post by Pants on Jul 9, 2013 15:46:31 GMT -5
I take (prescribed) narcotics, so I will occassionally have very very intense nightmares. Zombies, running without going anywhere, snakes coming out of skulls type dreams. Those will stay with me for a couple days.
I have this one high school ex-boyfriend that I would dream about every few months. The dream was always the same - us running into each other after all these years and everyone around me thinking I wanted to lurve him foreverandever. The dreams almost always had me sayign things like "But I'm not like that anymore/am not the same person I was in high school!" and nobody believing me. I would get so frustrated and emotional in the dream because noone was listening to me about what I wanted/who I was. I finally realized I had these dreams when I was feeling really insecure, which pretty much sums up my entire high school experience.
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Post by Abby Normal on Jul 9, 2013 15:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 9, 2013 15:49:21 GMT -5
Back when I worked I used to dream about losing my teeth all the time! And on rare occasion - for some reason I'd be naked out in public or during a meeting and freaking out. I heard it was about stress at work but I have no idea if that was true. I don't work any more and no longer have those kind of dreams so it must be true.
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Post by Abby Normal on Jul 9, 2013 15:56:04 GMT -5
Back when I worked I used to dream about losing my teeth all the time! And on rare occasion - for some reason I'd be naked out in public or during a meeting and freaking out. I heard it was about stress at work but I have no idea if that was true. I don't work any more and no longer have those kind of dreams so it must be true. I heard that if you dream that your teeth are falling out its because you regret something you said. I used to have those dreams all the time. I always thought it was guilt over not flossing.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 9, 2013 15:59:16 GMT -5
Back when I worked I used to dream about losing my teeth all the time! And on rare occasion - for some reason I'd be naked out in public or during a meeting and freaking out. I heard it was about stress at work but I have no idea if that was true. I don't work any more and no longer have those kind of dreams so it must be true. I heard that if you dream that your teeth are falling out its because you regret something you said. I used to have those dreams all the time. I always thought it was guilt over not flossing. Then why don't I still have those dreams? I should be toothless by now! I'm pretty mouthy and say tons of stuff I'm sure I regret. Or maybe I just don't care any more. I have job security. And I floss.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 9, 2013 15:59:52 GMT -5
Most of my dreams are about sex. Most of my nightmares are also about sex.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 9, 2013 16:03:44 GMT -5
Most of my dreams are about sex. Most of my nightmares are also about sex. LOL! I hope your nightmares are about NOT having sex! You is pretty You is smart You is impotent
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 9, 2013 16:08:05 GMT -5
Most of my dreams are about sex. Most of my nightmares are also about sex. LOL! I hope your nightmares are about NOT having sex! You is pretty You is smart You is impotent I wish. But more often than not, they're about clown rape.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jul 9, 2013 16:09:04 GMT -5
I assign no special meaning to dreams. The most I'll ever identify in a dream is, as imawino said, is something or someone who is stressing me out. But I don't consider that to be any special meaning. Most of my dreams are pretty incoherant and weird. I think dreams are just the random firing of neurons in the brain.
I asked about nightmares because I realize I don't really have nightmares, not as an adult at least. On some level, I know I'm dreaming, and never really wake up scared or terrified.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 9, 2013 16:09:06 GMT -5
LOL! I hope your nightmares are about NOT having sex! You is pretty You is smart You is impotent I wish. But more often than not, they're about clown rape. I'm betting the only part that bothers you is the clown.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 9, 2013 16:11:02 GMT -5
I think they often have to do with stuff going on in your subconcious combined with random neurons firing & your brain attempting to make it all make sense. I don't apply any real deep meaning to them, but sometimes try to figure out why my brain came up with certain things.
I sometimes have a dream where I am losing my teeth, which is one of my weird fears.
My reoccuring theme is to be in some sort of bizarre house. It is never the same place, but usually a house I just bought or am buying. They are always big & odd, and sometimes scary. I never remember seeing an outside or traveling to the house. The dream is always wandering through all the rooms of the house & looking at everything.
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Post by Abby Normal on Jul 9, 2013 16:11:42 GMT -5
You is pretty You is smart You is impotent
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 9, 2013 16:14:56 GMT -5
I wish. But more often than not, they're about clown rape. I'm betting the only part that bothers you is the clown. That, and the incessant background music. And why does he have to keep giggling? It's not funny!
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 9, 2013 16:17:51 GMT -5
Well, I must be the weirdest person on this thread because I can count on one hand the number of dreams I've remembered. Must be I am just simple minded and shallow
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Post by steff on Jul 9, 2013 16:19:01 GMT -5
I have weird dreams.... but I know two things from them
#1 when the Zombie attack happens, I'm sticking with my youngest brother. In my dreams he's always the one that can figure out how to get us out of each zombie situation.
#2 when UFO's attack, I'm sticking with my other brother. He's the only one that seems to have a clue in the UFO dreams.
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 9, 2013 16:27:25 GMT -5
Well, I must be the weirdest person on this thread because I can count on one hand the number of dreams I've remembered. Must be I am just simple minded and shallow Nah, you're not weird, at all. A lot of people don't remember most dreams. We do dream, just like everyone else. We just don't recall the majority of them upon waking. I rarely remember a dream, and don't recall any nightmares since I was a child.
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Post by steff on Jul 9, 2013 16:36:49 GMT -5
I have weird dreams.... but I know two things from them #1 when the Zombie attack happens, I'm sticking with my youngest brother. In my dreams he's always the one that can figure out how to get us out of each zombie situation. #2 when UFO's attack, I'm sticking with my other brother. He's the only one that seems to have a clue in the UFO dreams. with dreams like that, who needs movie? In one dream, my brother leaves my mom & my aunt fighting (over stupid shit like they really do) as zombies close in on them. I just have to remember to not be the slowest one in the group or he'll cut me loose too. My other brother isn't even in that dream. I figure he saw our group and went "oh helllllll no! I'm going the other way" and really, no one would blame him for it.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 9, 2013 16:40:58 GMT -5
Well, I must be the weirdest person on this thread because I can count on one hand the number of dreams I've remembered. Must be I am just simple minded and shallow That's not what makes you the weirdest person on this thread!
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 9, 2013 17:18:51 GMT -5
I can usually connect my dreams (and nightmares) to specific things that are happening in my life. Sometimes my dreams are very literal - like, I had a dream that there was a lot of laundry to do, and I was standing there folding it. And when I woke up I remembered that I hadn't done laundry in a long time. Thanks brain - you really cracked that mystery.
But a couple nights ago, I had a dream about a girl I went to college with. I think her name was Dawn, and I'm not connected to her on facebook or anything. We were acquaintances, not friends. My dream was that she made the WNBA, and I went to a game to watch her play. No friggin clue what that was about.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 9, 2013 17:28:51 GMT -5
And when I woke up I remembered that I hadn't done laundry in a long time. Thanks brain - you really cracked that mystery. LOL! Usually I realize I haven't done laundry in a long time when I realize someone has no socks or underwear to wear.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 9, 2013 17:52:16 GMT -5
Well, I must be the weirdest person on this thread because I can count on one hand the number of dreams I've remembered. Must be I am just simple minded and shallow That's not what makes you the weirdest person on this thread!
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Post by happyscooter on Jul 10, 2013 7:38:32 GMT -5
I just wish I could get to sleep so I could dream. Dang hot flashes.
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