[chp]

Why do we dream?

Nobody knows for certain why we dream. There are many theories and psychologists are divided about why we dream. So what do you think? Why DO we dream? Is it just a load of nonsense rattling around the brain? Are dreams perhaps just the mind's way of cooling the emotions. Perhaps we are just reading into the symbolism of dreams and making things fit - just as the skeptics say we make the things psychics tell us fit what we want to hear.

So why do we dream? What is your opinion?

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[Rosalie]

I think most dreams are the kind where you're making sense of what's happened to you in wake time. An example of this is that I am feeling upset and emotional because my eldest son recently went to Australia for a year. The feeling for me is I've 'lost' him and tho I know he's not dead, I am experiencing some emotions that the bereaved suffer.

So the way my body seems to be dealing with these feelings/emotions is I'm dreaming about him quite regularly in the same way I did when my husband died. The dreams are usually about journeys where I either miss the bus/train/plane that he's on so I dont get to go with him, or I have a ticket but it's for the wrong day. I'm totally sure that these dreams are helping me to accept that he's not going to be around for a while.

I personally don't think dreams are just about making things fit; the interpretation of the dream symbols can aid self awareness. I also think dreams are a valuable coping stategy for emerging issues as it helps enormously to have rehearsed in a dream how you would cope with a big issue before you are really aware of it.


(These are just my opinions and thoughts I've arrived at through my experiences)

[JonDonnis]

Originally Posted by chp

Why do we dream?

Nobody knows for certain why we dream. There are many theories and psychologists are divided about why we dream. So what do you think? Why DO we dream? Is it just a load of nonsense rattling around the brain? Are dreams perhaps just the mind's way of cooling the emotions. Perhaps we are just reading into the symbolism of dreams and making things fit - just as the skeptics say we make the things psychics tell us fit what we want to hear.

So why do we dream? What is your opinion?

Why do we dream? .... JOIN THE DEBATE

You have it about spot on there Craig, we make dreams fit what we want.

A dream is the minds way of relaxing, the mind can very rarely if ever just shut off, so when the body is asleep the mind needs to keep going,m so using things you have seen on tv, things you have experienced and so on, it just creates random illusions.

It should also be worth noting that sleep paralyses and night terrors can explain many ghost sightings, UFO abductions and so on

[jenniela]

I would have dreams nightmare and just about any dream you can throw at me i have had. My doctor prescribed me medication for anti depresion and i do not dream all night long and it has taken away the really bad nightmares . My doctor said that dreaming is shallow sleep and if your brain does not get any deep sleep it can be the same result as have just about no sleep at all. I could dream so much i could make myself dream.

[Dreamqueen]

I think that we dream because we keep a lot of emotions and thoughts repressed. Our sub contious uses dreams to communicate with us. Weather we choose to listen or not, there it is.

I dreamt about a relationship I was in. I was pregnant with my boyfriends baby. The baby had died in the womb, so they operated and the baby came out deformed, like a monster. I chose to ignore this dream, even though I had it interpreted.

The relationship with that particular person ended up being manipulative and abusive and the dream symbolized that when you combined myself with that individual, the results were unnatural. We were not supposed to be together and anything that we made would be deformed. The baby, like the relationship, was dead.

I stayed with that person 6 months after I had that dream. He broke up with me 6 times and I took him back again and again. If only I had listened to that dream, and went with my gut feeling that it wasn't meant to be.

[Morrile]

Hello,

Dreams have fascinated mankind throughout history and there are many theories as to what they are and their meanings; if any. I have come to accept that nearly all people have dreams. Now frequently the dreams are just a rationalization of what actually happened within the astral plane. The person may be a doubter to start with and just would not believe the possibility of astral travel ? which the majority if people do - and so as a solution to what would be a difficult problem the subconscious of the doubter cooks up a fantastic image or dream which truly is stranger than anything that could happen in real life. Dreams, then, are either the rationalization of an astral experience or the mindless wandering thoughts of a body of which the soul or astral form is far, far away - so far that no check is being kept in the mental processes of the sleeping form.

Astral travel is something we all do, well nearly all, as those suffering from constipation or obesity cannot as they lock the spiritual within the physical. Because Western people are brought up not knowing about this and many other things they disregard these topics because it contradicts their current beliefs, which sadly many see as a personal attack when it?s not

Morrile

[Rosalie]

Astral travel is something we all do, well nearly all, as those suffering from constipation or obesity cannot as they lock the spiritual within the physical

tut what a load of old rubbish morrile!

[Sibyl]

Originally Posted by Morrile

Astral travel is something we all do, well nearly all, as those suffering from constipation or obesity cannot as they lock the spiritual within the physical

Can I have the authority for that statement please Morrile

[Old Soul]

I think we dream to rid our physke or conscience... of collected stuff

i think our subconscience can only hold so much stuff and then it has to come out... via dreams...


but i also think that now and then a real good message comes from our dreams too... wether it be spirit to spirit type of witness

or a dream of something that is going to happen...

[namasivayam]

knowingly we dream through out the day.
but unknowingly we dream at sleep.
Both day and night dreams are the links established with micro and macro cosam.
as long as the brain has the cosmic link we have consciousness.