Dream - it is a natural physiological process of staying in a state with a minimum level of brain activity and a reduced response to the world around us.
Dear collegues, your opinion interesting for me. Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards, Shafagat
Prior to brain imaging technology, subjective reports of memories of dreams were the only means to examine them, so speculation came from various spiritual and scientific directions. Carl Jung, in a lecture to the Institute of Medical Psychology in London, in 1935, spoke of consciousness as the product of sensation and perception and our orientation to the external world, with unconscious processes such as memory consolidation and personality differences affecting conscious thought. Jung believed that dreams were the most accessible source of the individual’s symbolic self, and that they held valuable information for understanding individuals and their personalities. He believed that our dreams provide a valuable link between our abstract, complex, and symbolic thought and more primitive, pictorial, or concrete thought. These ideas are very close to those emerging through the hard science of today.
http://www.decodedscience.org/dream-interpretation-myth-or-science/7885
Prior to brain imaging technology, subjective reports of memories of dreams were the only means to examine them, so speculation came from various spiritual and scientific directions. Carl Jung, in a lecture to the Institute of Medical Psychology in London, in 1935, spoke of consciousness as the product of sensation and perception and our orientation to the external world, with unconscious processes such as memory consolidation and personality differences affecting conscious thought. Jung believed that dreams were the most accessible source of the individual’s symbolic self, and that they held valuable information for understanding individuals and their personalities. He believed that our dreams provide a valuable link between our abstract, complex, and symbolic thought and more primitive, pictorial, or concrete thought. These ideas are very close to those emerging through the hard science of today.
http://www.decodedscience.org/dream-interpretation-myth-or-science/7885
Dear @Fateh Mebarek-Oudina & @Abhijit Mitra,
Thank you so much for opinion.
With kind regards, Shafagat
"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened." ~James Arthur Baldwin
You don't need to read a book about Dreams to tell Something about your personal dream experiences. Thus, can personal experiences provide hints about what Dreams can be and why they are caused?
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes. ~Carl Jung
Did Jung use its own dream experiences as a basis of what he wrote, independent on what other people told him?
Our mind has three states of consciousness i.e. conscious, subconscious and unconscious. The dreams normally takes place first two stages. In the conscious stages a person dream of futuristic attainment and its offshoots remain in mind which reflect back when a person wither in full sleep mode of semi-sleep mode. That way a dream may a replica of one through process in awakened stage.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"There are many hypotheses about the function of dreams, including:
- Dreams allow the repressed parts of the mind to be satisfied through fantasy while keeping the conscious mind from thoughts that would suddenly cause one to awaken from shock.
- Ferenczi proposed that the dream, when told, may communicate something that is not being said outright.
- Dreams regulate mood.
- Hartmann says dreams may function like psychotherapy, by "making connections in a safe place" and allowing the dreamer to integrate thoughts that may be dissociated during waking life.
- LaBerge and DeGracia have suggested that dreams may function, in part, to recombine unconscious elements within consciousness on a temporary basis by a process they term "mental recombination", in analogy with genetic recombination of DNA. From a bio-computational viewpoint, mental recombination may contribute to maintaining an optimal information processing flexibility in brain information networks.
- Herodotus in his The Histories, writes "The visions that occur to us in dreams are, more often than not, the things we have been concerned about during the day.""
Please, see the following articles on the websites for details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream
http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/TSSOD/chapter1.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/dream-research_b_7306396.html
Scientists have programmed a computer to read people's dreams, and it is 60 per cent accurate. The level of detail is still far from that in the Leonardo DiCaprio film Inception, in which people manipulate people's dreams and steal their sleeping thought
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2304085/The-dream-catcher-Scientists-programme-read-peoples-sleeping-minds.html
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Why are dreams so forgettable?
It seems likely that all of us forget 95-99% of our dreams for the very ordinary reason that we sleep right through them and aren't paying attention to remembering anything. One dream researcher suggests that it's similar to when you are doing something that doesn't take much concentration, such as driving on an open road, so you are not paying attention to what you are doing.
What does it mean if someone recalls an excessive number of dreams, or no dreams at all?
In extreme cases of excessive dream recall, or no dream recall at all, there may be chemical imbalances at work. We think we know this because some medications lead people to report to physicians that they are remembering more dreams, and that the dreams are very vivid and realistic, and sometimes very scary.
In extreme cases of no recall, still another thing may be going on. These people may be dreaming very little or not at all. That probably sounds unlikely to most of you who heard growing up that everyone dreams at least during the four or five Rapid Eye Movement (REM) periods of the night. But the people who did that research in the 1950s and early 1960s may have jumped the gun a little because they hadn't studied the full range of people. Based on recent studies, including one using low recallers who were very low on visuospatial skills, it now seems probable again that some people don't dream.
Moreover, some people who suffer lesions in specific parts of the brain are known to lose their ability to dream for varying periods of time. These unusual cases show that it is possible to have the usual amount of REM sleep -- about 20-25% of the night -- and not dream. And to be mentally healthy without ever dreaming.
Please, see the following articles for details
http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/FAQ/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/dream-research_b_7306396.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dreams-dreaming/
Dear @Krishnan Umachandran, @Hazim Hashim Tahir & @Marcel M. Lambrechts,
Thank you so much for interesting opinion and link.
With kind regards, Shafagat
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"If you don’t have a dream, there is no way to make one come true."
— STEVEN TYLER
Dreams are stories and images that our minds create while we sleep!
Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378.php
Dear @Subhash C. Kundu & Marković G. Đoko,
Thank you very much for opinion.
Best regards, Shafagat
Dear @Shafagat, there are many complementary threads about dreams where I have took part in. As there are many fine answers and resources, I am bringing them here.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_Science_behind_nightmares_and_dreams
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_we_dream2
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Has_anyone_in_ResearchGate_done_any_research_about_dream_contents_to_share_with_me
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Dreams_and_interpretations_what_is_your_opinion
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
– Paulo Coelho
Do you think that dream managers exist? E.g. people that manage the Dreams of other people?
Dear Dr. Mahmudova,
The following is an excerpt about the meanings most Thai people give to dreams.
Many people believe that dreams can, and do tell what is in store for you in the future. Every dream seems to have a meaning, and certain aspects in the dream are linked to aspects/events in real life; for instance, dreaming about a snake chasing you means someone likes you, while dreaming about losing a tooth means that a relative might die soon. Most people know the meaning of important dream images, and for more obscure one, there are dozens of books one can consult. These books will also tell you which numbers are associated with the dream images you have seen, which of course is great for playing the lottery.
It is also believed that the dead, and especially dead relatives and friends, communicate with you by entering dreams. They may use dreams to warn you of impending danger, or ask for certain items/food, which can be given by donating the items to a temple in the deceased’s name.
http://www.thailandstories.com/article/cultural/articles/superstition.html
Best regards,
Cameen
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. ~ Sigmund Freud
According to the Free Dictionary , dreams are "A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.". I certainly agree with this definition while acknowledging that science has not yielded sufficient results about studies concerned with dreams.
I think that a person may have the compass or the clue for his/her own dreams. Interpreting the dreams of others is not an easy task unless the others tell the whole stories without missing any part of them. This is my opinion based on little knowledge in interpreting dreams.
Dear Dr. Shafagat,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-dream/
I don't have my own opinion about the dream but found the following report interesting:
Sander van der Linden, "The Science Behind Dreaming." (Scientific American site, July 26, 2011) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-behind-dreaming/
The final paragraph of the report is as follows:
"Dreams seem to help us process emotions by encoding and constructing memories of them. What we see and experience in our dreams might not necessarily be real, but the emotions attached to these experiences certainly are. Our dream stories essentially try to strip the emotion out of a certain experience by creating a memory of it. This way, the emotion itself is no longer active. This mechanism fulfills an important role because when we don’t process our emotions, especially negative ones, this increases personal worry and anxiety. In fact, severe REM sleep-deprivation is increasingly correlated to the development of mental disorders. In short, dreams help regulate traffic on that fragile bridge which connects our experiences with our emotions and memories."
The above passage seems to say this: Dreams peal off our emotion from bad experiences and attach it to events in dreams, making our real, bad experiences less harmful to our daily life. Right?
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
--- Paracelsus
Life is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring voluntary/involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of activity.... (including sleep)?
Thanks for the definition of "dream". I have some questions on dream:
1) What is the purpose of dream in our life?
2) What are the benefits or harms that dreams can bring to our life?
3) Can dream impacts our world-view or life style?
4) Why dream only occur when we are asleep - can we dream while we are still awake? Can we dream while meditating?
5) Is "day dream" considers a dream?
6) Since dream is not real, can we control ourselves in the dream so that we try to do something that we never experience in real life?
7) After we awake from a dream, can we resume from the previous dream while sleeping again?
8) Can we have a dream that we are just an observer i.e. we are not participating in any role or as an "actor" within the dream?
9) Is there anyone never dream in their whole life?
10) Can dream translates into real life happening? How we know a particular dream will become real?
Dreams seem to help us process emotions by encoding and constructing memories of them. What we see and experience in our dreams might not necessarily be real, but the emotions attached to these experiences certainly are. Our dream stories essentially try to strip the emotion out of a certain experience by creating a memory of it. This way, the emotion itself is no longer active. This mechanism fulfils an important role because when we don’t process our emotions, especially negative ones, this increases personal worry and anxiety. In fact, severe REM sleep-deprivation is increasingly correlated to the development of mental disorders. In short, dreams help regulate traffic on that fragile bridge which connects our experiences with our emotions and memories.
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~ Erich Fromm
Its a feeling in subconsciousness and resulted from thinking in consciousness.
Dreams are subconscious activities of our brain to revisit, resolve or confront what our mind was occupied or troubled with while conscious or to visit some unknown domain of thought and place in transcendental way, showing the power of our brain and consciousness that can sometimes transcend to a higher hyper subconsciousness.
Dear @Brenda Jacono,
Thank you very much for opinion.
Best regards, Shafagat
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become. ~ Marc Ian Barasch
Despite a man - in the course of its existence - dreams on average for about six years, and you can then speak of an experience common to all, is not found in the literature a single definition of the phenomenon of the dream, nor a precise location in the brain the departments responsible for this function.
Dear Shafagat,
Of course there is a scientific basis of dreams.
First, we must distinguish level of consciousness of unconscious. The latter is a functional aspect of the cerebral cortex that can not be accessed by consciousness, and is responsible for managing the basic psychic structure that lies in the cerebral cortex; while the level of consciousness is a functional psychic state where they are also involved several brain structures, in addition of cortex, although there is not some psychic structure to represent it, it's just a way to make evident the psychic functional aspects, such as thinking. In this sense, the unconscious activity is not opposed to wakefulness or consciousness state.
In the Figure sueño y vigilia we can see that during wakefulness remain active the two thresholds: the internal threshold, sensed by the IPA, and the external threshold, sensed by the EPA. It can be seen that there is a gap between the two thresholds, this represents the difference in intensity that should have two stimuli, one that comes from the outside and another that proceed from within the organism to operate the corresponding perceptual apparatus. In the same figure shows what would happen during sleep, a situation in which beyond lost the motor control and be annulled the senses would create a 'collapse' of the level difference between the thresholds, that is, the external threshold would rise which means that an external stimulus of greater intensity is required to convene the perception of the surrounding reality. In contrast, the internal threshold would descend requiring, in this way, a less intense stimulus for pay attention to an internal emergency. In short, both thresholds are found about halfway being confused into one which will be sensed by a UPA (unique perceptual apparatus). (Salatino, 2014)
The attention (Figure niveles de consciencia) can be divided into three types: 1) the psychic attention, characterized by Freud in his Project is of intuitive nature, occurs during the wedge and allows to perceive the external qualitative, is carried out through of reticular substance therefore not affected by the level of consciousness, and enables the cerebral prediction mechanism. Through it, is perceived a signal or change; 2) the biological attention, based on the interpretation gives sense to the perceived reality, and consciously promotes an action in response, relative to the PAF that became active by the previous attention. Is made effective through the sense organs and their pathways. Through him the signs are perceived, that is, two objects related by a change. In other words, the psychical attention builds the context (the continent), while biological attention, the sign of the reality of Freud by detection of pyramidal simultaneity contributes with the content ; and 3) social attention that corresponds to social tact, of intuitive nature, that ends in the courtesy as strategy adaptive - pragmatic. The internal qualities is related with achieve the qualities of the desired, which in turn is a consequence of a relative synchronization between the external qualitative, and the quantitative, through a transformation. Figure 48 shows the arbitrary relationship we have established between the type of attention and the state of consciousness relationship which we call level of consciousness.
When we sleep the reality outside our body is replaced by the reality that is represented in our psychic structure (psychic DNA), in our life story; in addition to the contributions of the transitory memory and the operative memory. When we entered the state of consciousness that characterizes the dream, beyond almost completely lose touch with aspects of reality that bring us our senses, significant changes occur in other areas and among them, and mainly in the arrangement of the psychic DNA. (Figure ADN en el sueño)
In the illustration above we can see, in a figurative way, what happens during sleep according to TL.There, the psychocytes in a minicolumn have collapsed when approaching to the center the 'vertices' who control the states of consciousness and unconsciousness, respectively; acquiring the appearance of a 'stack of coins' strung on the axis of the 'now', which contrasts frankly with the minicolumn 'deployed' on the right, present in cerebral cortex in the waking state.
This is aimed at represent, on the one hand, the functional disconnection of the cerebral cortex regarding to the sensory input and motor output, and on the other hand, the distortion suffered by the register of the external time in the psychic structure (This same phenomenon is seen in biology in the nuclear DNA of any living cell).
While it is proven that we dream in any of the physiological stages of sleep is during REM sleep, which occupies 25 % of the time we sleep (Velayos, 2007, p. 8) where dreams have more detail and structuring, and by other hand, are best remembered upon waking.
Recall that while we sleep the level of consciousness we have set arbitrarily at 20% during NREM sleep (75% of total of asleep hours) which reaches barely to maintain a very small biological attention to meet internal stimuli who report any risk status, but in fact, completely nullify the psychic and social attention. During REM sleep, biological attention reach a level of 50% and psychical attention a level of 20%, while the level of social attention remains at 0%.
The numbers above do not imply the existence of a clear and necessary relationship between perceived somatic stimuli during sleep and dream content, nor does an indiscriminate symbolizing of the parts of our physical body, when to give an explanation for the dream; other than the weak correlation between physiological stimuli (hunger, urination, defecation, sexual desire, etc.) and the central theme of dream.
Freud made numerous contributions about the origin of the content of dreams, and beyond not agree on the interpretation he makes of that content, the fact is that there are significant aspects in which their contribution was decisive.
One of Freud's contributions are the 'diurnal remnants' (Freud, Volume IV, p 240.) that representing perceived facts, but unattended, that is, situations that have occurred in our presence, but that have gone unnoticed, and which may have influence several days after happened. These representations would be retained in the transitory memory, therefore, never be part of the psychic structure, because they never end up in an idea.
This work considers that the diurnal remnants, are the that activate the dreams, because they replace during the dream activity, perception, since they were 'registered' at 40Hz, the frequency at which cycles the thalamocortical system, both in waking as during REM sleep, whereas the unfulfilled desires during wakefulness and the repressed in childhood, contributes to its content.
When we sleep, the basal ganglia are no longer stimulated from outside , therefore, when not being able execute pragmatically the PAF, because it is disconnected all the motor apparatus, the influence of the basal ganglia is directed to the 'actions' registered in the diurnal remnants .
Given the connections between specific and nonspecific thalamic nuclei with the basal ganglia at 40 Hz (Llinás, 2002) even during REM sleep, the detection system coincidence relative still works, so that dreams are taken as 'real', by comply, with the Freudian reality principle (Freud , Volume I, p. 371), something that does not happen, for example, with the hallucinations occurring in the waking state , where despite having as a reference 40 Hz , are a pseudo-perception, because, without an external stimulus or internal support from the psychic structure by the disconnection of the basal ganglia are considered as real, as we discuss later.
Other contributions of Freud about dreams are closely linked to his conception of the unconscious. Of all, the most important is time. Freud said that the unconscious processes are atemporal, like dreams. The theme of time will be discussed in depth later, just suffice it to say that the explanation of the timelessness of dreams is something we saw earlier changing the 'registration of external reality' (psychic DNA) during sleep. Therefore, the remembrances are not working, because the register of external time in the psychic structure is denatured, and thus, the chronological time becomes duration, that is, where apparently, the past, the present and the future are simultaneous.
Figure tiempo cualitativo represents the transcursive vision of the qualitative time (psychic or internal). There we can see how it unfolds, in the nucleus of a psychocyte, the trefoil representing the psychic time, occupying the temporal wedge (12.5 msec). While sleeping, this wedge collapses, are confused, the analyzer of past with the analyzer of present, and both occupy the same level. Therefore, the 'predictor' of the future disappears since this functional aspect better known as hope, is the only true witness of the past that we have. This is a direct consequence of the collapse that also suffers the psychocyte, which also causes a 'temporary disconnection' between the axis of the 'nows', and the recorded facts, those who fail to be deployed along the chronological time as during waking state, for to go on to consider the relationship between subject and object at the same level and on any level, even of the lived in the early childhood.
The foregoing should not lead us into the error of considering the dream content as mere 'memories' and these are only in effect when the psychic DNA transcription is possible, that is, during the awake state, when the manifest content communicates of the dream, that is, the initially remembered in the story of the dream. This manifest content of the dream is only a distorted ‘facade' and disguised by the censorship or repression of an unconscious desire. The material of dreams, the latent content, ensues by a screening of the diurnal remnants on a transiently denatured psychic structure driven by unfulfilled desires, which have impacted the psychic structure resident in the unconscious. The dream is the royal road to the realization of that desire.
It should be clear that no one dreams of nothing that in one way or another, is not registered in our psychic structure behold the geniality of Freud when proposing the interpretation of dreams as the ideal method to address the functioning of the unconscious.
The variegated 'forms' of dreaming are already given in the record, and can’t be modified because they are part of the psychic structure, which is indelible. What happens is that the traditional perceptual apparatus is supplanted, during sleep, by the basal ganglia that operate on the 'psychic structure denatured ' for losing the chronological course of the external time. These 'inner perceptions' are guided by the diurnal remnants, those unresolved external perceptual patterns that did not end as part of a stable psychic structure. Therefore, if there is anything that can be called 'dream-work ' (Freud, Volume IV AE, p. 285) is precisely this 'construction' of a temporary structure that will never become part of the psyche, but only allows the 'oneiric work' which is to transform, as Freud says, a language in another language; the thoughts of dream to contents thereof.
The above proposal might explain what is seen in some diseases. For example, the schizophrenic can’t dream, because it has not a reality to appeal to. That is, in the cleavage of his psyche, the nucleus of the psychocyte is separated from the rest of the psychic cell (or the Id is separated from the ego, according to Freud), prevents him from using the guide of the diurnal remnants. Not that the schizophrenic has a different deductive theoretical system to that of non-psychotic, according to the statements of Bion (1996). No one has such a thing! It is like I said is a problem of disconnection of the Id, whereby two parallel and independent psyche will appear.
The psychotic does not avoid the reality principle, because it generates terror, this can’t be handled at will since it is an unconscious aspect, but can’t do it because he does not have access to its structural memory, that is, to its psychic structure. Thus have difficulty in establishing the identification of the subject, therefore suffers from a non-identification of objects, and of himself as an object. Conclusion, never learns what is real (external) and what not. The only chance for his psyche, to operate is moving his inner world out, and construct there their psychic structure, for that reason 'there are things that speak him '. So identified on any object. The problem is that he can’t differentiate his ego of that object.
The psychotic moreover can’t to think at all; when handling only loose ideas, he can’t start the 'dream-work'. The inability to think occurs because, although that his psychic structure is complete, there is a disconnect between the unit of sense and the logic unit (that is, both the ego and the superego can’t connect to the id). The terror of the schizophrenic arises because it does not exist as a subject, is a perfect stranger to himself, it is as if cohabit at the same time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide. (Salatino, 2014)
(For more details see PSYCHE - Structure and Function, available in RG)
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
------ Colin Powell
Dear @Dante Salatino,
Thank you so much for interesting opinion.
With kind regards, Shafagat
Freud's 1900 theory of dreams:
Dreams are composed of sensory images and free associations are evoked in the dreamer's mind by these images. He concluded that dreams rely on memories and that they are assembled by the brain to deliver a meaning. Meaning of dreams are hidden and reflect memories of emotionally meaningful experiences.
Agree with Prof. Mitra that Feelings in sub-conscious mind are reflected through dreams.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~ Henri Amiel
The point is to become conscious in the dream without waking up. To observe oneself from the outside while feeling the inside. To see the whole thing and details at once. The hierarchy of dreams vertically and horizontally, depends on the consciousness of the person, the quality of perception and experience. This is very fluctuating, so the quality of the dream is always changing; there are visions, revelations and wishes that become true. All this is still a black hole.
To have an idea about dreaming, the dreams should have been told.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Dreams are beautiful things. They give people hope. They give people purpose. And they serve as a reminder that in this world, anything is possible...
Please, see what Marsha Norman said:
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~ William Dement
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Here are two lovely famous quotes about dreams and reality:
Please, See them .....
Dream is a regular thinking process of our mind .Very often we without any purpose or aim are starting of thinking in the manner with our mind moves .
With this very often we said of a day dreaming or night dreaming which remain in the form of our thinking process with the aim of wishful thinking or in our mind a cherished desire to fulfill the purpose of our life.
These are all the said factors which remain the part of our dreams & very often it comes before our mind as a true vision in the form of a dream when we are in sound sleep .
With this we desire ,we feel that our dream may take a real shape in our life & for this it order to achieve the same in Reality ,we must have Determination,Dedication Self Discipline with our effort under the practice of our will power.
There has to be some scientific basis to a dream.
I have nice dreams only after hard brain work. How one can explain that my sister often sees our deceased father giving her advice that is relevant and up to date?
The positive side of nice dreams that provide us ahope that something will be real finally
Dear @Roland Iosif Moraru,
Thank you so much for interesting opinion.
With kind regards, Shafagat
Just sharing a personal experience in this matter that leaves us speechless.
I had a dream / intuition / premonition (?) some years back - in a very elaborate dream wherein I saw myself in between two railway track like things and people around me. It ended with me coming out of that track like thing. After two days my dad came and he wanted me to leave him at a hospital close by - which I was reluctant with no reason at all - Neither I wanted to leave him at the place he wanted to go nor I wanted to allow him to go - again no reason. But anyway I went and while coming back my car overturned and I was trapped inside upside down - the same scene of my dreams - me between two railway track like things (car roof and window pane) and people outside trying to help me out -I came out from the window without a scratch with god's grace. This dream gave me an eerie feeling and many times think what was it? A dream or an intuition or a forewarning ......
Dear Roland, within the reality of your bedroom, you can't prove that you are not dreaming.
If what you perceive as real are Dreams, are there different kinds of Dreams perhaps coming from different (external) sources, e.g. countries/energy levels/etc..? These are my personal impressions.
Dream is because of the relationship between individual consciousness and universal consciousness or superconsciousness; between microcosm and macrocosm. In dream our individual consciousness becomes in unison with infinite consciousness of the universe.
Article EVOLUTION AND RELATION OF MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Here are two lovely famous quotes about daydreaming,
Please, See them .....
Perhaps there is more to a dreamlike state, i.e. altered states of consciousness yet to be discovered and proven.
" As long as we continue to consider wakefulness and sleep as a simple dichotomy, we will lie in a Procrustian bed that is bound at times to be most uncomfortable. There must be degrees of being awake just as there are degrees of being asleep (i.e. the conventional sleep stages). Before finding our way out of this muddle, we will probably need to characterize a wider variety of states of consciousness than those few currently distinguished (e.g. 'dreaming,' 'sleeping,' 'waking,' and so on). "
http://www.lucidity.com/SleepAndCognition.html
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Here are two lovely famous quotes about big dreams and goals
Please, See them .....
@Victoria
Making classifications result from human-based perception constraints, so I would agree that there must be states in-between the classifications currently defined by scientists
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. "
------ Douglas Everett
Can we reject the hypothesis that dreaming is (energy-based) 'reality'?
By dreaming you can find your perfect life!
See this quote:
"Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn't love; it happens." ~ Katrina Kaif
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read."
~The Talmud
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Here are three lovely famous quotes about dreaming for a better life
Please, See them .....
“The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.” ~ Myles Munroe
If a dream is perceived as real: great or not great?
Dreams perceived as real can sometimes be more exciting than....
MM
Dear Vibha Sharma,
Thank you for sharing your experience! I have also for decades experienced, observed, perceived, seen, felt, etc. many things - past, present, and future that defy (my) logic. I was NOT asleep but in a relaxed state. And I too did not have a word for them as you have struggled to grasp, e.g. dream, vision, precognition, remote viewing, some kind of psychic phenomenon. Proof has surfaced for me through research, newscast, a radio show, book, and personal events - eventually, although one was almost instantaneous. That really blew my mind! When I came upon the term "non-locality" or non-local communication, i.e. transcending space-time, if I'm understanding correctly, I felt a bit better about this strange way of "knowing." We are like antennae, a radio receiver, and when there is less static (perhaps in our consciousness?) we have a heightened awareness of what is downloading/coming in or through us because all is connected. This has afforded me some peace of mind.
Thoughts, comments from this thread are welcomed. All expand the lens of understanding.
Warm regards,
Victoria
- Big goals begin with a dream, and dreams are exciting.
- Then reality hits
- With refined vision and a sharpened focus, things begin to take off.
- The Summit, reaching is glorious
http://billzipponbusiness.com/turning-dreams-into-reality-4-phases-of-vision-fulfillment/
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ~ H.F. Hedge
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“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”
~ VINCENT VAN GOGH
Dream is an imaginary event seen in the mind while sleeping and most of the dreams comes as a result of our activities during the day.the other aspect of dream being scientific i may not be able to say much but i am sure through dreams God can commune with Man
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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“A Head Full of Fears Has No Space for Dreams.”
~ UNKNOWN
Dear Victoria
Thanks for your comments. Dreams at times are out of the world experiences with no logical explanations. I also agree with Oluwafemi that it may be a way god communicates with man.
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Vibha
People interpret in different ways. There are different religion views too about the the things that appear in dreams. As per Hindu religion if you sees some one dies or you die, that is a good sign.
http://www.astrocenter.com/us/glossary-dream.aspx?part=2
http://hinduism.about.com/od/relatedfields/a/dreamsymbols.htm
Sigmund Freud 'Father of Psychoanalysis' says 'DREAMS ARE UNFULFILLED NEEDS'.
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Please, see these interesting quotes about Dream....
I think that more research into dreams and 'reality' is needed - if it is feasible. Is this present life merely a dream, however long and realistic it may seem?
In my own experience, I once believed for years that something had happened. Eventually, I found that it must have been a dream. I now wonder if some inexplicable events and unbelievable coincidences in my life were 'in fact' dreams. Or... is this present life indeed a series of dreams?
I'm not sure how scientific research could attempt to answer this. The answer would arrive when/if we awake - ?
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