It’s been requested of me to write my opinion/beliefs of dreams. So, here I go….
Everyone tends to have their own fantasy of what dreams are and where they come from: Guilt, fear, hopes, a previous life lived, predictions, desires, or even aliens or angels or gods visiting you in your sleep and giving you what you see. People attempt to study dreams. It sparks that same memorization as an insect drawn to the flame. Like the fire, I don’t believe a person will ever be able to truly grasp what a dream is.
My own dreams have a reoccurring theme of danger. I’m constantly running to something to try to save it or to save my own life. But these aren’t my nightmares, these are merely my every-night dreams. My nightmares have me waking up to myself in tears or in pain from what had happened in the dream. I had a dream once where I was shot in my left shin and the bullet had traveled down to my foot. I awoke with such immense pain, that the dream must have been true…but when I looked down at my left shin, there was no blood, no wound. There was only a constant pain that remained there for days. Nothing was in my room to give me that precise pain. How could I have felt such a thing from something that never happened?
I’ve seen on the t.v. and I’ve read of people dreaming of some sort of catastrophe before it ever happened. I find that, though, extremely hard to believe true. It’s something that could too easily be said and accepted by mass majority.
I don’t understand how a dream could possibly cause pain. I don’t understand how a dream could predict the future. I don’t understand how exactly a dream is caused by a fear or desire or a hope a person may posses. I don’t understand how guilt could cause a dream. Nor do I understand how someone could dream of a life they had lived before (or if reincarnation is possible).
The comprehension of dreams is beyond my knowledge. My personal beliefs? I haven’t the slightest idea. My personal opinion? I may not know what dreams are, but they shouldn’t be pushed aside and forgotten.
December 19th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Sleeping to me is a necessary way of cleaning the gunk out of our brains. I see dreams as our minds sorting the events of the days out. When we sleep our memories are being filtered and stored and is essential to learning.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211161934.htm
A suggestion if you want to learn what your dreams mean, keep a dream journal by your bed and write your dream down as soon as you wake up. That way you can look at it later without any fear of forgetting and you can try to analyze it.
September 27th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Dreams of catastrophe … I have seen things before they happened , but didn’t dream them. What I have felt is a sense of danger. One time it was that my father shouldn’t go a certain route to wherever it was he was going. I begged him not to go the way he usually did. He didn’t, turned out there was a bad accident there that night. The second time I won’t go into details about here but I will share that it kept me out of trouble and allowed me a good career. I don’t know if I dreamed of things before happening though. I have also known things were going to happen that were good.
I have experienced out-of-body dreams that turned out to be shared by someone else. Crazy? I’m not limiting God or the spirits of this world except where demons need reining in. It’s all big…bigger than we are. I would say it’s entirely possible to be “shot” in a dream and it be either true on another level where we do not live, or you can accept man’s interpretation of dreams. However, remember, man is finite, limited. How you choose to believe what it means, in your gut, you will know the meaning. A lot of dreams are simplistic in their meaning, these anyone can analyze.
I have had dreams save me from losing my mind, they have given me love when I’ve needed it.
Who’s to say it’s not all a dream?
September 6th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Perhaps there is a scientific explaination for dreams telling the future. Maybe our brains unconciously gather data, analyze it, and then use this to predict a future event. (Like my dream of going to Sweet Briar 1 year before a school trip to the college.) Perhaps my dreams are telling me that something is wrong with my body and that I’ll become paralyzed in the future. My family won’t be able to handle it and kill me or a disgruntled nurse will suffocate me with a pillow.
Pain from a dream is simple. Most of the pain we feel is in our head. A good example would be when my mom stepped on a nail as a child. She didn’t know she had stepped on a nail until she saw a blood trail behind her and discovered the nail in her foot. Until that moment, she had felt no pain. I once had a dream that a snake bit me on the foot. I woke up and it hurt but nothing was there. It continued to tingle for the rest of that day. It is your mind that makes you feel the pain of a dream.
Guilt and other deep emotions probably cause certain dreams to tell you that you need to do something about the cause of these feelings. Your unconcious self is telling you that if you do not fix a problem, it will continue to eat at you until you can no longer bear it and do something rash. Our brains are part of our immune system. They try to protect our bodies from our stupidity.
Well, that is my take on dreams anyway. It can neither be proven nor disproven.