what is day dreaming?
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There is one thing about having a few minutes to myself that I wouldn't miss for the world - time to sit and let my imagination run wild.\n\nWell, perhaps wild isn't the word - just time to let ideas and images play in your mind until, suddenly, you see something in a new way.\n\nI was always told off for day-dreaming as a child - too many chores to be done!\nBut as I went to collect the water in the morning - or stood with my hands up to the elbows in bread dough - well, it was easy to let my imagination go. \n\nI might be going to the well to collect water - but, in my imagination, I was Miriam going to the Nile to check up on baby Moses - ready to rescue him at a moment's notice if he was in real danger! \n\nI might be kneading dough for Mary and Lazarus - but, in my imagination, I was preparing the meal for the angels who visited Sarah. \n\nI would build up the picture in my imagination - until I could even smell the atmosphere. I would imagine what I would do - and say - and I was far braver in my imagination than I ever am outside it.... \n\nOr rather I used to be...\n\nJesus and I used to have these wonderful conversations - as you probably know. As far as everyone else was concerned, I was just Martha - chief cook and bottle-washer! But to Jesus - oh, I could be Queen of the Nile  - Esther saving her people - Ruth promising to go wherever Naomi led - I could be anything. He never laughed - well, not at me - though often with me - as we realised that maybe I was going a bit too far along the Queen of the Nile bit! But what He did that I'd never thought of doing, was to use my day-dreams to learn about myself - and to listen to what they might be telling me.\n\nHe showed me that sometimes they left me feeling stronger - and more joyful - and at peace - and full of energy - all at the same time! These, He said, showed that I was at rights with myself and with God.\n\nAt other times, of course, they left me feeling dissatisfied - and out-of-sorts - and, sure enough, He said that that was because I wasn't at right with myself and with God.\n\nAnd sometimes, I could be feeling frustrated about something - and not know quite what the matter was - and He would suggest I spent some time just day-dreaming about some incident that He'd suggest. I never knew how He decided - but it might be thinking about Mary when the angel turned-up to say that she was to bear the Son of God - or it might be one of the healings He'd done - just about anything...\n\nIt might take a few attempts - but quite often - as I let the story build up in my imagination, I'd start to get glimpses of what was really going on inside me - and where things might be going wrong between me and God.\n\nBut what surprised me most was - the change in me. I'm not sure even now that I can explain it. Somehow, day-dreaming about Mary's "yes" and Ruth following Naomi - and all the other things I imagined -somehow, they began to change me. While Jesus was with us - it was easy to be confident and brave - but on that Friday - well, I surprised myself...It was as if He'd been training me for the day when I'd have to go and be there to help His mother and the others prepare Him for burial...to stand up and be counted -and not hide away - too busy to go...there was a Passover Meal to cook remember...\n\nIt was as if I practised in my imagination all the things I would need to follow Him when I couldn't see Him - or touch Him... Even after He returned to the Father - it was as if I could find Him in my imagination - just to sit and let something of His story come into my head - and then work with it ....and see what He taught me through it...\n\nDrinking from the Wellspring\n\nMany people day-dream - but it's often just a series of unconnected thoughts.\n\nTake time to try Martha' method. \nFind time and space where you won't be disturbed and choose a story from the Bible. As you start, ask God - Jesus
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a dream is just a thought process. \nWe dont have to be asllep to dream. We even dream sometimes when we are awake...Our Brain goes on a thought spree..\nand makes us believe what ever it thinks. Thats why dreams feel so real sometimes...
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Concentrate on this: There are some things in our life that we want them to happen. For eg. one may wish to be married to a person of his choice. So what we want to happen with us is something which is always there in our sub-conscious mind. And since we have no control over the inactive part of our brain (almost 90%) we see our wishes in our dreams.\n\nOtherwise, dreams may also be te fears or fancies in our sub-conscious mind. eg. the fear of ghosts etc. \n\nIn no way they are related to our future. But yes, if you convert your dreams to reality, they better are.
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Dreamer. I always dream my goals first, imagine how it will be when I reach them. Then I do it (or at least I try)
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Freud called dreams "the royal road to the unconscious."  Or was that Jung?  Darn, I'm geting my patriarchs mixed up.\n\nAnyway, according to psychoanalytic theory, dreams are the way the unconscious communicates with the conscious mind, through symbolism.  Thus, interpreting dream symbolism is a way to learn about your deepest self.
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I looked up the entomology of nightmares and dreams.  \nDreams are sleep or vision or aspirations, all good things.  Nightmares were seen as the indications of something bad, a goblin sitting on the chest of sleeping people causing distress.  So good dreams are normal and so a just called dreams; bad dreams have to be explained and so the idea of nightmares are introduced to explain a problem.
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Some daydream as a way to take a mental vacation.  Even 5 minutes of daydreaming can revive a person.  I use it to fall asleep at night.  Helps me a lot.
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Sounds like daydreaming, where you don't really focus and stare into space, but it looks as if you're watching things.
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Sounds almost like a plot from the movie "They Live". \n\nDreams can be so abstract yet seem so real at times.  I have vivid dreams at times and they stay with me at times long after I wake up.  Sometimes dreams are just reflection of our Id...our inner psyche...they some time reflect our emotions and our deep inner thoughts.  Sometimes I like it when I have weird dreams...it helps me with my creativity.
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A lucid dream is one where the dreamer is aware that he/she is dreaming. An advanced lucid dreamer has the ability to direct and control the outcome of the dream. For instance, one I realize that I'm in a dream, I will myself to do things like fly, walk through walls etc.\n\nA premonition dream would be one where the dreamer has dreamt of something that will take place sometime in the future
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Only when daydreaming
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dreams do not always mean what they are about. they are more of subconcious memorys. \nwhat do you do?  what can you do?
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I loved this question. Since, since I learned about dreams I always want to say this to any one curious - and there you are.\n\nThe brain has different areas that specialize into different thinkings/functions.\n\nMost areas remain unknown but then a lot are know to us.\n\nThere are special areas for vision, hearing, memory, analysis, judgement, speech, hunger, movements, sensations and so on.\n\nIn the stage of sleep the brain actually is working unlike we normally think! Sleep is actually for the body and some parts of the brain.\n\nThe areas of the brain that operate the heart, lungs, and certain higher analysis are actually working at their best.\n\nThe vision, hearing, sensations and movements are all shut down except for a huge stimuli like clock alarm or excessive light or someone touching us to wake us up!\n\n\nRarely, the vision / hearing may not shut down combined with memory being awake - will lead to a dream that we remember the next day.\n\nThe vision/hearing being awake combined with active conciousness will lead to dreams that we feel at night! (or see at night).\n\nThis is the very reason why some people speak in their sleep or make movement including sleep walking!\n\n\nThe brain mostly analyses all the events that occured during the day from a shorter (day) and longer(years) perspective - so dreams are often vivid.
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I have spent a lot of time in the past few years analyzing my dreams.  I find the more I pay attention to them, the more (and in depth) I dream -- or more and in-depth I remember them.  [The argument remains, "do we always dream & not always remember?" or "Do we not always dream?".  I, personally, have not decided that issue.]\n\nI do find that my dreams relate to the present.  For example, in last night's dream, I dreamed a restaurant caught fire (I mentioned a dessert from that restaurant in a recent Yahoo!Answer); I was about to watch a sports event with girls from my high school (I have been thinking about my high school in the past few days, and about some of my male friends loving to watch football on TV); we were about to pull a fire alarm before I woke up (it was exactly like the fire alarm at my high school)...\n\nI remembered about seven specific connections between what's been on my mind lately and what I dreamed about in that one dream -- before I got caught up in the day's activities.  \n\nI am seriously believing that night dreams are very much like "day dreams" -- when your mind wanders during awake hours (when you think of a subject and your mind wanders with it... you make a story out of it sometimes).  If you've "day dreamed", you know what I mean.  \n\nPerhaps the more creative or day-dreamer you are, the more you night dream.  And, the more you pay attention to them, the more you remember them. \n\nMy conclusion is, more and more (or I should say "continually/repeatedly"), settling on that  relationship.  I have been studying them for years because I have had time to devote to it and dreams are such a hot issue at times; I have been intent on figuring them out, if I could.\n\nI do not believe that dreams are symbolic of some "inner self" that you are not unaware or conscious of.\n\nI, too, find I dream more (at night), or remember them, when I am (in general) less stressed.  \n\n\nTHAT'S the report!!   :D
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The truth is that you see with your brain, not with your eyes.  The eyes are simply cameras relaying meaningless information to the brain.  It is the brain which makes sense of the information.  Dreaming is thought to be a time when the things you have perceived during the day are sorted out.  Rubbish is disposed of and the good stuff is kept.  REM is when you dream.  The hippocampus comunicates with the cortex allowing consolidation of memory.
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I believe that dreams are both (meaning just that, dreams that are silly and meaningless and products of subconscious). There is symbolism in dreams indicating fears, issues, your willingness and readiness to deal with them, accomplishments, and many more with all outcomes varying on your own level of subconscious creativity. A small example could be the symbolic image of water or 'dream water' if you will. cloudy dream water could be issues that you are not ready to deal with. you swimming in cloudy dream water could be you dealing with the bad issues, or just trouble in your life. clear dream water is the exact opposite, at least when it all refers to me. I got my info from various dream books and realized the relevance with my life, emotions, and dreams. As a matter of fact, I first seek out the dream books because i was making the connections and was wondering if i was psychic lol!. well there's my nutty opinion and even nuttier experience. hope it helps. stay safe. lata.
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I'm not sure...but dreams are usually made by random thoughts and memories. Your subconscious is constantly working 24 hours 7 days and that's what's making you dream. They are just jamming all these things together then you have a dream...most of the time it doesn't make sense or sometimes even it comes true! Dreams are sure fun and weird!