Or just a figment of our subconscious mind, You Decide.
Your subconscious is the part of your mind that can influence you or affect your behaviour without you being aware of it. Dreams come in many forms of manifestations when we're sleeping, It takes us into communication with the conscious and unconscious mind. We Sometimes get lucid dreams, Lucid dreams are when the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming .
Dreams are more than vivid experiences we have whilst we are asleep, they coincide with what happens in our everyday life, often obscure but patterns our waking lives. A childs mind paint pictures of the world they live, and these impressions are stored and might not be remembered in adult life but the impressions are still there, and may appear in dreams.
One of the most interesting thing about dreams is that nothing we do in them seem obsurd. We travel around the world and fly without wings, we converse with various historical characters long gone. It is rare to form a continuous story in a dream, it may have a mixure of many known places.
Some dreams give us a happy feeling when we wake up,while others can make us feel as if there is a missing piece to a puzzle and we must search to find the answer.
Dreams create a series of events in the mind when we fall asleep, it takes us on a journey and also takes on many forms of different characters. For instance, in a dream a person can be dreaming that they are in another country and is speaking a foreign language, or even flying without wings but, wherever we travel to while we're adrift we can always take comfort within ourselves that it's only a dream, and might not carry any deeper meaning other than what it is, just a dream.
What makes us dream especially when we go to bed at nights? There is probably no real answer to that one, but study shows that when a person's mind is plagued by anything that relates to their life, it can sometimes transform itself into a dream or nightmare when they go to sleep.
Hillary likes haagen dazs ice cream, She checked the refrigerator and found out that someone has ate her last tub of haagen dazs ice cream. She then looked at the clock and it's too late to go to the supermarket to buy her favourite ice cream so that she can retire to bed with a happy tummy. She goes to bed with it weighing heavily on her mind, as the sleep takes its toll Hillary finds herself dreaming of running to the supermarket before it closes to get her favourite ice cream.
Laura looked in the mirror one day and noticed that her laughter lines around the mouth has become quite visible, then it starts to play on her mind. One night she went to bed and dreamt about being in a surgery and having a facelift to remove the laughter lines.
Little Munga likes sweets, his mother has always been warning him that too much of it can cause bad skin. In a dream he sees himself eating cake, and then suddenly saw his reflection in the mirror and caught glimpses of fat, pimples forming, then he wakes up screaming. This is what we refer to as a nightmare, it makes us feel frightful in the dream of what is happening around us.
Tom has always been fascinated by bikes and action hero as a child, he is now in his forties and is having recurring dreams of riding bikes or being an action hero.
Carmen went through a bad divorce and in the process lost some of her closest friends, she went to bed and then dreamt that she is stranded in the middle of a desert with no-one around.
Lots of ordinary people, and the not so ordinary ones like mediums, fortune tellers, and palm readers do believe that some of what we dream reflect a much deeper meaning in our lives, and are manifestations that prepares us for future events.
What if some dreams do have deeper meanings? As the saying goes Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. Only when we ''take the dream to pieces'' do we begin to recognise the meaning of it.
A recent study conducted by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology concluded that most people believe that "their dreams reveal meaningful hidden truths". The study was conducted in the United States, South Korea and India. 74% Indians, 65% South Koreans and 56% Americans believe in Freud's dream theories
Classical history
Dreaming of the Tiger Spring (虎跑夢泉)
In Chinese history, people wrote of two vital aspects of the soul of which one is freed from the body during slumber to journey a dream realm, while the other remained in the body, The Indian text Upanishads, written between 900 and 500 BC, emphasize two meanings on dreams. The first says that dreams are merely expressions of inner desires. The second is the belief of the soul leaving the body and being guided until awakened.
By V Goldson
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Your subconscious is the part of your mind that can influence you or affect your behaviour without you being aware of it. Dreams come in many forms of manifestations when we're sleeping, It takes us into communication with the conscious and unconscious mind. We Sometimes get lucid dreams, Lucid dreams are when the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming .
Dreams are more than vivid experiences we have whilst we are asleep, they coincide with what happens in our everyday life, often obscure but patterns our waking lives. A childs mind paint pictures of the world they live, and these impressions are stored and might not be remembered in adult life but the impressions are still there, and may appear in dreams.
One of the most interesting thing about dreams is that nothing we do in them seem obsurd. We travel around the world and fly without wings, we converse with various historical characters long gone. It is rare to form a continuous story in a dream, it may have a mixure of many known places.
Some dreams give us a happy feeling when we wake up,while others can make us feel as if there is a missing piece to a puzzle and we must search to find the answer.
Dreams create a series of events in the mind when we fall asleep, it takes us on a journey and also takes on many forms of different characters. For instance, in a dream a person can be dreaming that they are in another country and is speaking a foreign language, or even flying without wings but, wherever we travel to while we're adrift we can always take comfort within ourselves that it's only a dream, and might not carry any deeper meaning other than what it is, just a dream.
What makes us dream especially when we go to bed at nights? There is probably no real answer to that one, but study shows that when a person's mind is plagued by anything that relates to their life, it can sometimes transform itself into a dream or nightmare when they go to sleep.
Hillary likes haagen dazs ice cream, She checked the refrigerator and found out that someone has ate her last tub of haagen dazs ice cream. She then looked at the clock and it's too late to go to the supermarket to buy her favourite ice cream so that she can retire to bed with a happy tummy. She goes to bed with it weighing heavily on her mind, as the sleep takes its toll Hillary finds herself dreaming of running to the supermarket before it closes to get her favourite ice cream.
Laura looked in the mirror one day and noticed that her laughter lines around the mouth has become quite visible, then it starts to play on her mind. One night she went to bed and dreamt about being in a surgery and having a facelift to remove the laughter lines.
Little Munga likes sweets, his mother has always been warning him that too much of it can cause bad skin. In a dream he sees himself eating cake, and then suddenly saw his reflection in the mirror and caught glimpses of fat, pimples forming, then he wakes up screaming. This is what we refer to as a nightmare, it makes us feel frightful in the dream of what is happening around us.
Tom has always been fascinated by bikes and action hero as a child, he is now in his forties and is having recurring dreams of riding bikes or being an action hero.
Carmen went through a bad divorce and in the process lost some of her closest friends, she went to bed and then dreamt that she is stranded in the middle of a desert with no-one around.
Lots of ordinary people, and the not so ordinary ones like mediums, fortune tellers, and palm readers do believe that some of what we dream reflect a much deeper meaning in our lives, and are manifestations that prepares us for future events.
What if some dreams do have deeper meanings? As the saying goes Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. Only when we ''take the dream to pieces'' do we begin to recognise the meaning of it.
A recent study conducted by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology concluded that most people believe that "their dreams reveal meaningful hidden truths". The study was conducted in the United States, South Korea and India. 74% Indians, 65% South Koreans and 56% Americans believe in Freud's dream theories
Classical history
Dreaming of the Tiger Spring (虎跑夢泉)
In Chinese history, people wrote of two vital aspects of the soul of which one is freed from the body during slumber to journey a dream realm, while the other remained in the body, The Indian text Upanishads, written between 900 and 500 BC, emphasize two meanings on dreams. The first says that dreams are merely expressions of inner desires. The second is the belief of the soul leaving the body and being guided until awakened.
By V Goldson
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