Let's talk about dreams. No, nothing of the "I want to be an astronaut and a cowboy and gazillionaire" when I grow up sort of dreams, they're far too silly. I'd like to talk about dreaming when we sleep. Our sleep cycles are extremely patterned and as such fascinating things. Here are the stages of sleep over an 8 hour period. Stage 1: You are entering into light sleep. This stage is characterized by Non-rapid eye movements (NREM), muscle relaxation, lowered body temperature and slowed heart rate. The body is preparing to enter into deep sleep. Stage 2: Also characterized by NREM, this stage is characterized by a further drop in body temperature and relaxation of the muscles. The body's immune system goes to work on repairing the day's damage, the endocrine glands secrete grown hormone and blood is sent to the muscles to be reconditioned. In this stage, you are completely asleep. Stage 3: Still in the NREM stage, this is a deeper sleep still. Your metabolic levels are extremely slow. Stage 4: In this stage of sleep, your eyes move back and forth erratically. Referred to as REM sleep or delta sleep, this stage occurs at about 90-100 minutes after the onset of sleep. Your blood pressure rises, heart rate speeds up, respiration becomes erratic and brain activity increases. Your involuntary muscles also become paralyzed. This stage is the most restorative part of sleep. Your mind is being revitalized and emotions is being fine tuned. The majority of your dreaming occurs in this stage. These stages repeat themselves throughout a night's sleep.Dreams are extremely fascinating things. They are a culmination of a reflection on prior events and, in my opinion, in many cases present events that may subconsciously or consciously arise in the future. http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamthemes/animals.htm The following is from dreammoods.com, and talks about what different things we dream about represent. Whether or not they are absolute fact is purely subjective to the observer, however they still provide interesting ideas into why we dream what we do. Animals To see animals in your dream, represents your own physical characteristic, primitive desires, and sexual nature, depending on the qualities of the particular animal. Animals symbolizes the untamed and uncivilized aspects of yourself. Thus, to dream that you are fighting with an animal signifies a hidden part of yourself that you are trying to reject and push back into your subconscious. Refer to the specific animal in your dream. To dream that animals can talk, represents superior knowledge. Its message is often some form of wisdom. Alternatively, a talking animal denotes your potential to be all that you can be. To dream that you are saving the life of an animal, suggests that you are successfully acknowledging certain emotions and characteristics represented by the animal. The dream may also stem from feelings of inadequacy or being overwhelmed. To see lab animals in your dream, suggests that an aspect of yourself is being repressed. You feel that you are not able to fully express your desires and emotions. Alternatively, it suggests that you need to experiment with your fears, choices, and beliefs. Try not to limit yourself. Here are some things about dreaming about sex: Sex To dream about sex, refers to the psychological completion and the integration of contrasting aspects of the Self. You need to be more receptive and incorporate aspects of your dream sex partner into your own character. Alternatively and a more direct interpretation of the dream, may be your libido's way of telling you that it's been too long since you have had sex. It may indicate repressed sexual desires and your needs for physical and emotional love. To dream about sex with someone other than your spouse or significant other, suggests dissatisfaction with the physical side of your relationship. On the other hand, it may be harmless fantasy. In such situations, you may find that you are less inhibited sexually and you can even bring that sense of adventure to your existing relationship. If you are heterosexual and you dream that you are having sex with someone of the same sex, signifies not necessarily homosexual desire, but an expression of greater self love and acceptance. You need to be in better touch of your feminine or masculine side. I don't think I've ever dreamt with numbers included or specifically about numbers, but the following is rather interesting: Zero Zero denotes timelessness, super-conscious, eternity, and absolute freedom. It also symbolizes God. One One stands for individuality, individuality solitude, the ego, leadership, originality, beginnings, and a winner. It also stands for a higher spiritual force. Anyway, let's talk about our dreams. I'm curious as to whether anyone can say that they believe in these dream significations based on what they've dreamt and also experienced in their life either pre or post dreams. I'll talk about my latest dream. Last night I dreamt that I was having sex with a girl I had a small crush on in highschool in the actual highschool itself, just after school hours. Inside the classroom and the school feels confining, and knowing that other authority figures in the building could walk in on us at any moment, I feel scared. Closed in because we're surrounded by authority in a place where sex is something never to be performed. As such, I'm unable to orgasm and continue going at it well after the girl has climaxed, hoping I can just get this over with. Eventually I wake up, never having climaxed and as a result feeling extremely confined by my surroundings. Talk dreams!
hey man, i didn't want you to feel alone and shit so i figured i drop you a line. dreaming has always fascinated me. Its so mysterious. It could be our brain just keeping ourselves busy while we rest or it could be that our dreams are gateways in our real life, and this day to day grime is just a dream. who knows, it is certainly very interesting though. whoever created us, aka god, is a damn genius, and my idol
That animal stuff is pretty interesting, I remember dreaming once that I was an animal stuck in a cage.
ever heard of DMT---dimethyl-tryptamine? look it uppp.....i cant say much. for i have to go now... but apparently it gets released when you dream and die.....produced by ur brain, plants, and countless other animals. so its like ur on a psychedelic trip every nightt. if you dont trip. you die.. smoking is g0d for you
Could you relate your dream though to anything that happened in real life, like with what they say about animals and all? I'm just curious.
I think that dreams are an unconscious psychic mechanism, like an unconscious action a person might make, such as a nervous tic or a slip of the tongue. I couldn't tell you what dreams accomplish (from a biological or evolutionary standpoint), but i do think that they provide insight into the workings of the subconscious. The subconscious is a bubbling mass of emotions and past experiences. More importantly, it has no checks which prevent it from feeling the emotions which are incompatible with civilized humanity. When a person is asleep, it will combine past and current emotions with past and current experiences. Events from the preceding day act as a catalyst. This is a dream. The really amazing thing is the fact that dreams condense the vastly complicated subconscious into a series of connected images and feelings, which can then be interpreted by the conscious mind. I can't emphasize enough how complicated the subconscious is. How to go about an interpretation? Read The Interpretation of Dreams. Basically what you do is recall the dream and follow the chain of connections each fragment makes in your mind. As for the symbolism you mentioned, i would be hesitant about ascribing any uniform meaning to dreams. A dream is totally subjective, and it depends absolutely upon how the dreamer's mind works. What is set in stone for one person is fluid and obscure for another. If generalizations can be made i would allow for thought processes which are likely the same and similar cultural ideas. It would be difficult to tell what level of meaning symbolism has in a dream. If you walk through a tight passage this could symbolize sex, but if an entire segment of the dream consists of you having sex than you will want to interpret the connections you can find in that segment.
Recently, ive been stuck for an entire month down here with my family in mexico, it sucks, no smoking (weed or cigs), minimal drinking, its a really small town so nothing to do, can't call or text my friends and i have to be family friendly cuz my nephews are around all the time. This past week all my dreams have been vivid and most of them lucid. Ive been dreaming about the same things. Dreams of texting friends, of opening my closet safe and finding a packed bowl inside (lol), going back to school, or going back home. I'm guessing its really obivous that im just getting homesick haha, but its crazy that ive been dreaming about the same stuff all week I also learned something, if i try driving a car in my dreams, its really fucking hard to look through the windshield. Its kind of like placing my chin on the steering wheel and trying to see without my glasses, its all blurry and shit and i can't find myself driving more what seems more than a minute or two. Haha, can't wait to get back home and get on with my life
Anyone wants to interpret this dream I've been having lately I'd be very thankful. I went to military school a couple years back, and I'm going to college in a couple weeks. I keep having a dream that I'm going to a military college, when I'm going to practically the furthest thing from a military college. Military school was the only time in my life where I have been away from my family and friends and home (grown locally) for any decent amount of time. I wonder if I'm just having this dream because in my subconcious I am just putting the two together and I happen to be a little bit nervous?..
[quote name='"PassTheGrass"']Anyone wants to interpret this dream I've been having lately I'd be very thankful. I went to military school a couple years back, and I'm going to college in a couple weeks. I keep having a dream that I'm going to a military college, when I'm going to practically the furthest thing from a military college. Military school was the only time in my life where I have been away from my family and friends and home (grown locally) for any decent amount of time. I wonder if I'm just having this dream because in my subconcious I am just putting the two together and I happen to be a little bit nervous?..[/quote] Maybe since the military is associated with being away from home and your going to a military college in the dream, its trying to tell you to branch out and get away from what you know, to go where you can. Or to stay away from your home town for certain reasons.
I once dreamed I was a fish swimming with other fish. I felt so free and happy. Then I had to squeeze into this small hole. Well I went through and I felt like me face was literally stretching back so far. Birth dream it something. I was prob a little sperm lol.
My dreams are more lesson-oriented at the moment. Its like my dreams in the past were more about entertainment, like watching movies that I was in, but now they are more like "important visions." Dreams can have a big impact on shaping our waking life. Do you think we ever go to the places we are in our dreams?
Well, i guess I should elaborate a bit. If you think enough about your dream, if you follow the thoughts and feelings and memories behind each part of the dream, you probably will be able to write pages and pages describing the meaning of your dream. The material you provided isn't nearly enough to make a proper analysis, and it will work better if you figure it out yourself anyway. Also, in Freudian thinking, nearly everything human eventually boils down to sex (especially the subconscious). Moreover, all dreams are wish fulfillment, and whether this is true or not, in some dreams you may find that your subconscious is punishing itself for it's excesses or camouflaging it's incompatible wish fulfillments. As for your dream, if you've had it more than once, and if it makes you feel anxiety, you are probably quite nervous about going to college. It makes sense that your subconscious associates the two schools, because they were both away from your home, and if that makes you nervous that will be a strong connection in your subconscious. There could be many reasons why you are dreaming that you are going to military college. Maybe you subconsciously worry that your time in college is going to be the same as it was in military school. Maybe instead you subconsciously hope that your time at college will be the same as it was in military school. Maybe your subconscious is preoccupied with something entirely different, but it is using military college as a convenient dream mechanism to camouflage or connect the ideas. Again, I would have to have a lot more information to make a detailed analysis (which I would probably misinterpret anyway).
I'm going to put what Dreams I can remember down..... -The terrible Stormy weather Such as Black-Dark Grey skies with VERY heavy Rain and Tornado's (I do live in OK) and we get Tornado's like a MOfO every early Spring to early Summers,I remember vividly being sucked up into one But I don't remember falling or Dying.....Woke up Depressed. -Walking Dirt roads alone,Very Depressing when I wake up...... =Ahh my favorite ones (These have been occurring lately,Even last night) I dreamt about everyone from my Hometown which isn't to far from here,And we're usually in a basketball gym or in a Store that looks something like wal-mart,But they're all smiling and Happy,I even remember my friends parents whom I rarely talk to,I wander why the hell would my Brain even store their vivid images of them like this and just bring them up......It all ended with this girl I liked last year smiling,Then I woke up,Feeling Nothing. -Another Favorite (I usually write them down,If I'm not to lazy to do so..) It was like I was a spectator Watching over the Ocean,I don't know if this was the Sea,Ocean or whatever But the water was very light-Blue to crystal clear,Like Bahama waters,Anyways it was the most bright beautiful sunny day and their was a Flying/Hovering car flying over the Sea going through Some floating rings,And these rings floating 10ft above the water and were in a line about 7ft apart like a Road for a car But floating metallic rings instead,And the floating Car thing was "Bright Red".Thats all I can recall,And my very best explaining it. The Future + Another future of Transportation.After waking up I felt extremely happy -Another good one,I dreamt that I was in a town that looked Gold and Futuristic and I was attending college their,I was in a restaurant with a friend and somehow everything warped and it was night and I was walking back to a random dorm room from somewhere and on my way their I see one of my real life cousins going in the opposite direction,I don't remember saying anything to him,And so I reach the room which happens to be on the 2nd floor,And everything warps again and now I'm looking out the window from the room on the 2nd floor I was headed to,I turn around and this Girl (This is crazy,I have NEVER EVER seen this girl in MY LIFE,But she looked as though she could exist on this earth somewhere) and she pulled/snatched me into this tiny ass bathroom and starts making out with me (Hardcore),And then some random dood walks in through the front door......And that was it,I had woken up with a feeling of Happiness and Motivation to do something,If that makes sense. But before I go on,How the Hell does our Brain create a fully Vivid detailed human You never seen before,I'm saying I seriously never seen this girl before not at a Store,Mall,Party,Wal-Mart (Lol),Or even in a movie.....Could we really remember sh*t form a past life during sleep......Like some God creating Humans type shizz! -Ahh,The one where I was in a tunnel underground encased in fire and at the end of the tunnle was like a 15ft Iron/Steel door and before I reached the end their was a fire tornado thing blocking my way,Then I woke up Sad/Scared/Depressed. -They numerous ones I have about Marijuana,I posted this one months ago,But the bud I had Was more longer and Branchier rather than the Usual Strawberry-Popcorn sized/Shaped buds,And the THC crystals didn't change in size but number it covered most if not all the Bud,And the hairs (OMG) were an Inch+ long and very bright orange you could play with and twist the bastards if you wanted,Never got to experience Anything with it,Always woke up before the good parts. But trust me this Bud looked like the year 2100 Bud with Successful Genetics,Gowing,Harvesting,Curing etc.All the works. It looked like it was watered with water from a high Mountain carried back down by hand,Like someone literally put their life into these Plants. Will post moar later " ",Sorry If I had a ton of Errors,Been awhile since I thought out and wrote/Typed out something.
The dream I had last night I connected to the animal part in a way. Well, their were no animals involved. It was this big Bane looking dude(the villain from batman, that's what he looked like to me) kidnapped a younger girl, probably in her late teens/early twenties. He was holding her hostage, and he was counting down to kill her. I was in a room with the bane looking dude, the girl, and my brother. We fought him, my brother and I. It took everything we had to take him down. After what felt like the longest, and hardest fought fight I have ever experienced. When Bane was down on his knees, I screamed from the ground(i was laying next to him; injured as well) and stabbed him in the back several times (with a medium sized knife). I had so much anger, and desire to finish him....to protect the girl. To know that she was safe. That's where my dream climaxed. As I finished him off..I felt power, dignity..and a sense of right doing. I did what needed to be done to protect the others as a whole. I felt like a lion, like a male lion, king of the jungle stuff. Idk, man.. I think it means something, or is pointing/ was pointing me(or my consciousness) towards something.
ok, here's the thing. I have a very, very small, specific amount of understanding on Freudian psychoanalysis, which he pioneered a century ago. Contemporary thought has progressed far beyond this and has proved much of it to be wrong, not to mention the pseudo-scientific basis of all psychoanalytic thought. I have not found anything that refutes the theory of dream interpretation, but I am not qualified to tell you how your unconscious works. Anyway, interpretation is based on this century old Freudian thought. And let me emphasize how much this thought is based on sex. Apparently, sexual thoughts, often incompatible with a moralistic conscious, are the motivational force behind dreams. Consider the fact that in asking for an interpretation of your dream, you are asking another person to unravel impulses which are very personal. If nothing else, at least read a bit about Freudian psychoanalysis, especially the Oedipus Complex, before you decide to go into detail about your dreams.
I had a dream the other day where I was at my friends camper outside his house and there were two girls fighting on the inside. I don't remember who they were but I ran in there to break them up and one of them stabbed me directly in the heart lol.. I could actually feel my heart stopping and barely beating and thought to myself that I was definitely about to die.. Then I think adrenaline kicked in because I ran out the door then I woke up lol but I can still remember that feeling
After intense thought, I believe it is my subconscious trying to show me a different timeline. It is attempting to show me what might have been of my life had I stayed at military school rather than returning to my home. I was nervous for a whole entire 6 months at military school. I'm sure that situation would have stayed the same had I stayed in the same place. Thanksfully, I made the right decision. I came to this conclusion because I've been worried a little lately that I'm not supposed to be on my current life path. I'm not being a bad person, it's just I want to be able to use what I have for the good of this world, and I want to solve some major problem in our world. I am just making sure I'm doing what I need to do to reach my endpoint. I'm sure now I have been/am on the right path. Interesting, I was not previously aware my subconscious was capable of such a dimensional transition. Anyone else had a similar experience, I'd like to hear it. This shit is fascinating.