Dreams

[nailit]

Any ABers reckon that dreams have any meaning? Or are they just random thoughts thrown together by a sleeping brain.
Keep having a recurring dream that I'm falling backwards into the earth (grave like) and the feeling that I'm dropping into the bowels of some kind of hell or unpleasant eternity.
Always a pleasure to wake up afterwards...

Remember reading some years ago that Freud viewed dreams as unconscious wish fulfilments.
Dunno what this says about me....

[Baldric]

"And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"

[anaxcrosswords]

I certainly don't go for the idea that dreams try to tell us anything. For example, the crashing aeroplane thing is supposed to represent fears about sexual performance... so why does the human brain visualise it as a crashing aeroplane - for everybody? Firstly, that's a ridiculous suggestion regarding human brain development (what did we dream about before aeroplanes existed?) and, secondly, if the brain thinks it has an important message to tell us why cloud it in obscure messages only fathomable by 'experts'? Just tell it like it is, I'd say.

[nailit]

Its a mad world Baldric :-)

[Mamyalynne]

No, I don't think they tell us anything or rather I hope they don't.


I never let them prey on my mind, parcel them up and throw them away once awake.

[nailit]

// if the brain thinks it has an important message to tell us why cloud it in obscure messages //
I think the same, just a bit discombobulated as to why I keep having similar dreams tho. Bit unnerving.

[nailit]

LOL@ DB...

[nailit]

// parcel them up and throw them away once awake. //
Wish I could,

[Mamyalynne]

Worded that badly, I meant I do - though some do recur.

[whiskeryron]

Because I always have 'story' dreams that always make sense I am convinced that dreams are a sort of alternate universe & because of my age ( 92) wonder if I am partially drifting into/out of life after death, if so I am quite happy to go at any time as both of my lives are extremely interesting experiences. I hope I do not shock my fellow A/Bers with my theory. I have no fear of my impending death whatsoever.

[nailit]

ron, I find that fascinating, no 'shock' here. Just wish that youd expand a bit more....

[whiskeryron]

How can I expand nail ? I only know that when I am in ''dream state '' I am living another life & whilst there I have no knowledge that the day life exists. There is never any reference to it, I just get on with living it. Sometimes I am in familiar territory that I have visited many times before. The only thing that is constant is my dear wife is only sometimes there ( she passed over 8 years ago) but I always, in the story discover that she has disappeared & I cannot find her which is constantly very worrying.

[nailit]

Thank you Ron, I really don't know how to reply to that , but thanks for getting back. Certainly food for thought.
Thanks again.

[Patsy33]

Hi nailit, at a guess, I would say there are aspects of your life you would like to bury. I think this is probably a positive dream and the time is now ready for you to go forward in life.

[Cloverjo]

I don't think that dreams show the future.
I think they are brain sorting out things and filing them away.

I don't often remember my dreams but the ones I do are often of being at uni and having exams that I haven't revised for, or realising that I haven't made any friends so I'd better get on and make some.

I think that people who write books about dreams and what they mean are charlatans like clairvoyants, mediums etc.

[Eleena]

Random thoughts thrown together,
things you've heard or read in the news that struck a chord, anxieties ...

[ummmm]

Murdo....I can but only on nights I'm not sleeping too well.

Nailit - I often dreamt about my dad and would wake up crying.

[johnk]

DeCarte the French philosopher coined the phrase I think therefore I am. He pondered whether life was reality or not. Some say that I know I'm alive because I feel pain, heat, cold, joy, sadness etc but Decarte reasoned that you experience all these in a dream so is life reality? He concluded that we don't question the reality of dreams but as we do when awake waking life must be reality. Sorry about this lengthy preamble but what I want to ask does anyone question if a dream is real when they're in the dream?

[whiskeryron]

As I have pointed out my dreams are so real that I do not question them when I am in them. This is how I differentiate from real life because when I am awake I can recall a dream but in the dream state I am totally unaware of this life.