Why do we get dreams?
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Dreams are the subconscious minds' method of acting out possible scenarios in our own lives. There have been experiments into sleep deprivation...dreaming occurs during the REM (rapid-eye-movement) cycle and at this point the body is paralysed, all apart from breathing equipment and the eyes. This is to stop the body physically acting out its dreams. Nightmares occur when the dreams basically overlap into the non-REM cycle (non-rapid-eye-movement), it is at this point that people sleep walk or talk.\nDuring these experiments, participants were woken as soon as they fell into REM sleep (dream sleep), this stopped them from having dreams. Participants reported that they felt as if they had had no sleep, they eventually started having hallucinations...the body was having dreams during the period that they were awake, they overlapped into the conscious mind, such was the physical need to have dreams.\nNo-one actually knows why people (and animals) have dreams, but researchers have acknowledged their significance in human evolution.
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I have a ton of recurring dreams. none of them are particularly frighting or happy. I have dreams that really happen. I've had dreams about buildings, haveing never even been in the same state as that building, and later i have moved there and been in that building and known exactly how to get around in it, because its all so familiar.\n\nOr i might dream about a town or neighborhood, and years later be driving some where and see it for the first time, and even reconize the people. \n\nmy favorite dreams are the ones that mean nothing in real life. The ones that dont actually happen later, (trust me, even after two decades it starts to get creepy) like where iam flying, or being chased by people and iam so fast and strong that i get away with little effort. \n\nDreams can be very important things. More than just keeping us busy while we're asleep. :)
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dreams do really have its meaning. our dreams are based on our sub-conscious mind when we are sleeping.. usually, dreams are representations of what is really happening around us or in our environment when we are asleep. for example, in your dream it is very dark, so you try to light a candle and the flame got so big.. it could be that in reality, there is a fire near you. \ni've also read magzines and books that translate our dreams. wether you believe on those or not, dreams still represents reality or however, what we want in reality.
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Your question assumes that dreams have a meaning. Personally, I see them as random biproducts of our brain's biochemistry. It's true that most dreams can be interpreted to have some kind of meaning; with a little creativity, pretty much every story, song, or work of art can be given an infinite amount of meanings. The reason dreams are hard to understand is that they weren't really meant to have a message in the first place.
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Dreams. Its a word to be understood properly. Dreams are generated from us, it uses the information which we have some where deep in our minds, it uses all that what we know and make a new kind of event in our unconcious mind.\nSign and Signals are alwyas floting around us, and they are not send by any divine power, as the power is right inside our own self. To understand the sign and act on it depends on how we manage to understand our own self our own power.\nEvery living being is connected with an invisible network and communication between each other is always happening, its our recevier which is capable to filter the signals or no.\nTHIS IS JUST 1% OF WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY... WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MORE IF IT INTRESTS ANYBODY...
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Freud interpreted dreams as being symbolic manifestations of subconscious desires which were too dangerous to face up to in their real form.\nHowever, these days, most psychologists are more likely to believe that dreams are either random triggerings of old memories, thoughts, and perceptions; or somehow the brain's way of sorting out the important stuff from the rubbish.\nThere is no 100% accepted theory of why we dream, but in general, the idea of "dream interpretation" is mostly disregarded these days.
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I believe dreams mean something but you can never really be sure of what sometimes dreams are so weird and random and others are pretty normal.  I've often thought of dreams as your brain resolving conflicts or trying to while you sleep possibly to reduce stress or clear your mind whatever.  But Sigmund Freud wrote a lot about the interpretations of dreams so go to a library and look at his stuff but he also thought everything we did as humans was for some sexual reason.
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That happens to me too. I do not know what kind of dreams is she having, but mine are not sweet dreams. I have a friend how is experiencing the same as , we have talked about it and concluded the dreams are happening because we had bad relationships, we were traumatized and need to work on that because the memory of those bad relationships and bad experiences are haunting us.
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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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We can't tell the future, but the nature of dreaming suggests that we may be able to predict it. Dreams are essentially the consious brain reviewing memories, and you get taken along for the ride. Sometimes, the brain decides to recombine things, which make wierd dreams. We can't remember our dreams because we cannot sense them, so we have nothing to remember.
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maybe when you was younger like 2 or 3 you family had friends over or you seen them in a movie and that is why you are having these dreams. or maybe you can see in to future and might run into them one day. and am not joking. its like a day-j-voo odd but true. it happens to me all the time i can be doing something or be in a different place and its like bein replayed in my head like dang i did this before. gl
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because subconsciously you want to burn something. Remember that dreams are opposite of what we want.
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90% more likely do we forget our dreams. it's the domain of the subconscious. try dreams central, its a website on dreams and its meaning.
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dreams are the subconscious trying to talk to you. i think you're thinking about them in some way.
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yes ive had dreams that have come true just because your body is asleep doesnt mean your soul and spirit are. Dreams are a spiritual way of telling us things when our bodies and thoughts are to busy to concentrate on things that may endanger us or make us happy.
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Usually dreams can be connected with something that you thought about that day.  Maybe you went to McDonald's that day?  Then later on seen something that made you think of Meredith.  Your unconcious mind tries to make sense of it all so it puts it in a dream form.
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It is a very common dream. I used to get them, but not any more. You are imaginative but do not realize your potential fully. you are a dreamer but with feet firmly on the ground. you have a lot of aspirations and hopes but you are secretive and do not share it with others.you secretly imagine miracles, knowing fully that they don't happen.\nI used to dream of peacocks landing and taking off from my terrace