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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 5/31/2008 4:03:26 PM | Hmm . . . I believe in Dreams. I have learned to. I have dreams that come true, on one level, or another. I have taught my children that dreams are the road to take, to work out some issue, in their waking, or conscious, life. One of my kids has an added twist to dreams. A paternal grandfather died. We were not close. He was a bad guy, when He was younger. My kid had a nightmare, then asked if she'd dreamt of him dying. I shrugged. Then we got a call & sure enough, He was dead. She later had a similar dream, about her paternal grandmother. Again, I shrugged, when asked if she'd dreamt of her dying. Again, we were not close, 'cuz' she used to let the kids see the bad guys. Again, sure enough, we get a call, She's dead. Most recently, she had a nightmare, about an old friend of the family. We were not close to that person anymore. Freakily enough, we get a phone call . . . He has disappeared, under suspicious circumstances. I am sure He is dead, as my daughter saw happen.
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/2/2008 8:50:33 PM | | Your dreams will tell you alot and sometimes warn you just like the instincts we carry with us....dreams or actually being there...who knows but listen to your dreams. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/23/2008 12:41:40 AM | A theoretical approach to dream interpretation manifest from Freudian psychology. One of the main emphasis of the approach is dream interpretation. The idea behind the psychodynamic approach is that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors an individual possesses but cannot act upon are repressed. The thoughts, feelings, or desires which are repressed are repressed because they are too harmful to one's self-image/ego. The anxiety is too great and causes the individual to deny a part of him/herself. The thoughts, feelings, or desires are then released symbolically in their dreams.
If you are really interested in understanding your dreams, see a psychodynamic therapist, a good one! It'll run around 125-140$ an hour though, or at least for a good psychodynamic therapist. Books are good, friends are nice, but they will only provide tentative principles regarding your phenomena (the dream). Self-interpretation may beneficial to some degree, but one may incur what is called a subjective bias. This is why a therapist cannot give him/herself therapy. It takes an objective mind to interpret.
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/23/2008 7:03:42 PM | about my dreams. Used to have nightmares thanks to watching too much Doctor Who etc as a child. I then learnt the ruby shoes technique, but been a boy I refused to wear the ruby shoes I learnt to blink my eyes, and forcefully open them if a dream got too bad. Now I have dreams in which I know I am dreaming maybe every week and I sometimes choose to alter the dream reality; i.e walk down a street and make it become a different street. So clearly you can control dreams and dream on a higher intellectural level than say maybe a dog dreaming about chasing a cat. i.e dreams aren't simply either a memory dump or a prehistoric throwback with updated scenary.
For the last decade or so I have dreamt about my father and in my dreams he has given me advice or by his actions etc suggested a course of action to deal with a real life problem bothering me. This suggests that one can select from vast amounts of stored memories, a few that have a particular meaning relevant to a question on your mind. Unless you believe in contact from the other side and clairvoyancy etc.
My recurring dreams include the typical flying, I often have to negotiate transmission wires or sometimes I get trapped inside buildings and have to find a window to fly out of. Another recurrent is alien invasion. Finally been on a train or sometimes even driving it. ( that with the OP completes the trains boats and planes ) The consensus seems to be that all these dreams are symbolic of struggles in life against the electricity company, British Airways, NASA and East Midlands Trains.
My weird dream is when I am in a vast cavern or suchlike and there is this mains type hum and I feel like I am been simultanously sucked towards something in the distance and like I am about to fly off the ground because of sudden gravity failure. There are also funny colours which are and simultanously not visible (told you weird) within the greyness of the cavern. I've not managed to resolve that dream yet despite having it since childhood.
As this is a dating site, I'll add at the risk of been slated, I never dream about current girlfriends. Dream about women in between girlfriends. In fact generally I don't dream about many living people at all.
I have my fair share of deja vue and that "I dreamt about that last week" feeling. I believe on balance that with so many dreams ( 10 or so a night don't we?) we are bound to dream up a situation that later appears to come true. And you never hear these people shouting about major disasters before they happen - only after.
I haven't yet but intend to try the learn a foreign language in my sleep technique. Ok, nout to do with dreams. Forced denial of dreams experiments show people need dreams or they go nuts.
Update to weird dream: Having written it out for the very first time I think I have just this second sussed it. It's about been matter - been atoms. My existance not as a human but as a collection of atoms. Wow, thats deep and to think I've been dreaming this since I was knee high to a ant. Sorry folks don't intend to sound smug, it's my creative hour and so I am on the ball. The other 23 hours a day I am asleep.
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/25/2008 10:42:24 PM | From the book "Consilience" by Edward O. Wilson (published 1998):
"The...modern hypothesis of the basic nature of dreaming is the activation-synthesis model of biology. As created during the past 2 decades by J. Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School and other researchers, it pieces together our deepening knowledge of the actual cellular and molecular events that occur in the brain during dreaming. "In brief, dreaming is a kind of insanity, a rush of visions, largely unconnected to reality, emotion-charged and symbol-drenched, arbitrary in content, and potentially infinite in variety. Dreaming is very likely a side effect of the reorganization and editing of information in the memory banks of the brain. It is not, as Freud envisioned, the result of savage emotions and hidden memories that slip past the brain's censor. "The facts behind the activation-synthesis hypothesis can be interpreted as follows. During sleep, when almost all sensory input ceases, the conscious brain is activated internally by impulses originating in the brain stem. It scrambles to perform its usual function, which is to create images that move through coherent narratives. But lacking moment-by-moment input of sensory information, including stimuli generated by body motion, it remains unconnected to external reality.Therefore, it does the best it can: It creates fantasy. The conscious brain, regaining control upon awakening, and with all its sensory and motor inputs restoredreviews the fantasy and tries to give it a rational explanation. The explanation fails, and as a result dream interpretation itself becomes a kind of fantasy. That is the reason psychoanalytic theories relating to dreaming, as well as parallel supernatural interpretations arising in myth and religion, are at one and the same time emotionally convincing and factually incorrect. "The molecular basis of dreaming is understood in part. Sleep descends upon the brain when chemical nerve cell transmitters of a certain kind, amines such as norepinephrine and serotonin, decline in amount. Simultaneously a transmitter of a second kind, acetylcholine, rises in amount. Both wash the junctions ofnerve cells specialized to be sensitive to them. The two kinds of neurotransmitters exist in a dynamic balance. The amines waken the brain and mediate its control of the sensory systems and voluntary muscles. Acetylcholine shuts these organs down. As acetylcholine gains ascendancy, the activities of the conscious brain are reduced. So are other functions of the body except for circulation, respiration, digestion, and--remarkably--movement of the eyeballs. The voluntary muscles of the body are paralyzed during sleep. Temperature regulation is also diminished. "In a normal nocturnal cycle, sleep is at first deep and dreamless. Then at intervals, consuming overall about 25 percent of the total sleep period, it turns shallow. During the shallow periods the sleeper is more easily awakened. His eyes move erratically in their sockets (REM). The conscious brain stirs and dreams but remains sealed off from external stimuli. Dreaming is triggered when acetylcholine nerve cells in the brain stem begin to fire wildly, initiating what are called PGO waves. The electrical membrane activity, still mediated by acetylcholine at the nerve junctions, moves from the pons (the P of PGO), a bulbous mass of nerve centers located at the top of the brain stem, upward to the lower center of the brain mass, where it enters the geniculate nuclei (G) of the thalamus, which are major switching centers in the visual neuronal pathways. The PGO waves then pass on to the occipital cortex (O), at the rear of the brain., where integration of visual information takes place. "Because the pons is also a principal control station for motor activity when the brain is awake, the signals it passes through the PGO system falsely report to the cortex that the body is in motion. But of course the body is immobile - in fact it is paralyzed. What the visual brain does then is to hallucinate. It pulls images and stories out of the memory banks and integrates them in response to the waves arriving from the pons. Unconstrained by information from the outside world, deprived of context and continuity in real space and time, the brain hastily constructs images that are often phantasmagoric and engaged in events that are impossible... "In dreams we seldom experience the physical discomforts of pain, nausea, thirst, or hunger. ... There is no smell or taste in dreams; the channels of these sensory circuits are shut down by the acetylcholine wash of the sleeping brain. Unless we wake soon afterward, we remember no details of any kind. Ninty-five to 99 percent of dreams are forgotten completely. A small minority of persons believe, erroneously, that they do not dream at all. This amazing amnesia is apparently due to the low concentration of amine transmitters, which are needed to convert short-term memory into longer ones. "What is the function of dreaming? Biologists have tentatively concluded from detailed studies of animals and humans that the information learned while the brain is awake is sorted and consolidated while it is asleep. There is further evidence that at least some of the processing, particularly the sharpening of cognitive skills by repetition, is limited to periods of REM sleeping, and therefore to dreamtime. The flow of acetylcholine itself may be a crucial part of the process. The fact that dreaming activates such intense inward motor and emotional activity has led some researchers to suggest that REM sleep has an even more profound, Darwinian function. When we dream, we deepen moods and improve responses basic to survival and sexual activity. "The findings from neurobiology and experimental psychology nevertheless say nothing about the content of the dreams. Are the fantasies all temporary insanity, the sum of quickly forgotten epiphenomena during the consolidation of learning? Or can we search in some neo-Freudian manner for deep meaning in the symbols from which dreams are composed? Because dreams are not entirely random, the truth must lie somewhere in between. The composition may be irrational, but the details comprise fragments of information appropriate to the emotions activated by the PGO waves. It is quite possible that the brain is genetically predisposed to fabricate certain images and episodes more than others. These fragments may correspond in a loose way to Freud's instinctual drives and to the archetypes of Jungian pschoanalysis. ..." | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/25/2008 10:56:50 PM | I think they mean ALOT more then what most people would say
I think they can warn you about things, or help you see a future in your life, or give you an interesting look at a past life you lived
ive had dreams, nightmares and strange dreams, one things for sure
I think ANYTHING is possable :) | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/26/2008 5:47:30 PM | Per my experience and my observations: Anxiety creates a multitude of weird dreams. The more anixous the more open you are to outside influences. The unseen electricity/? of thoughts and actions of your fellow brethren. For myself the more disturbed I am by my life (unhappy) the more I allow external influences to alter my subconcious. I realize this in hindsight of events in my life. What i have not seen directly addressed is prophetic dreams. Yes, the anxiety of one's life and the sleepwalking/talking/ flying/ wondurous dreams. I know if I sleep at certain times of the day then I recieve different influences upon my subconcious psyche. Yet there are the times when I dream extremely violent episodes that cause distress to me. And timing is not of issue.. Usually death, hostage situations, fear in magnification and death..... bloody very bloody dreams. No idea where it orginates. Have been doing this the majority of my life. I learned that living in certain areas with dense population ; meaning, high crime areas causes me to see the unseen forces. Example: girl murdered.. I have horrible dream upon which I awake feeling I have lived through a murder. 2 weeks later I read in newspaper my dream down to the last detail. I warn my mother of being careful in her job asking please let me know when you get home and she relates a dream I had to such hideous detail that I had chills and an inability to speak for 15 minutes due to the realization of what I "knew". There was a female in the altanta area named Julie Love. Her disappearance surrounded runningout of gas. I swore I would never allow myself to run out of gas and prayed that she would be found alive.. all the while knowing she was dead. I dreamt of certain circumstances surrounding her death.. finally she was found in a garbage heap with a shotgun wound to her head. She will never leave my mindset. She has changed my life forever. My ass aint running out of gas and I am gonna work near my job so similar circumstances will not occur for me. I discovered anytime I dream of my father there is a death in my circle of friends and family. I dreamt of OJ Simpson discarding something on top of a hilly area. He went to the back of his vehicle and got a package and walked it down a hill to discard. Yes, I think he did it. No the stuff was not discarded in an airport! That susAn **** that killed her kids.. didn't need a dream to know how that one ended. =( Lent credibility to my ex as he was like how did you know? She didnt fool me in the least with her stupid lying tears. Regardless.. for all bad there is a measure of good. I would conclude if there ARE distressful events in your sleep time take a look at your real time. Best wishes. btdt Karacal | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 6/26/2008 8:01:31 PM | well.. long time ago i learned that dreams, jokes and soooooo on are the way in which u show what you have in your subconscious (subconsciente) ... That thing keeps some of your fears, some information that u don't have in your conscious part... What you have in subconscious is something that u don't notice, sometimes that u don't know or something that u put there because u don't wanna remember that.
Let me put it easy.... imagine a place in which the water is hold, like a dam... sometimes the dam is full of water... the dam could be in the point that it could exploited for the pressure and the force of the water.. then suddenly appears a whole in the dam in which few water is running...
that is what dreams, jokes, sarcasm and a lot of things helps in order to let it go at least a few of what u have in your subconscious
That is in psycology.... and their meanings ... mmmmm.. it depends.. hahah..
but i don't believe in buying a book in order to know what the meaning could be if i have strange dreams.. hahah | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 7/7/2008 7:21:23 PM | | Early morning dreams often times are an answer to a question that has been on your mind before you went to sleep. It often comes in the form of an analogy. Putting the puzzle together produces an answer. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 7/8/2008 7:46:47 PM | Some dreams appear to have meaning... mostly about what is in your subconcious that you may not be focusing on at the time. Or video games. One time, I made a recipe in a dream that actually sounded quite good.
Other dreams appear to be merely mixed signals in our brains meshed together into an insane conglomeration of lesbian sex, brooms, your father trying to stalk you for sexual reasons and spaceships that randomly, and without reason, (or awkardness in the dream,) become ghosts, drum sets and cheese... | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 7/14/2008 1:15:19 AM | I wish these forums had a nice quoting feature, because it would be handy for addressing specific replies.
Anyway.
Someone had a damn good physiological description of what happens when we dream and matches well with my understanding. It was right around the middle of the first page. The science really isn't close to being settled on what the ultimate physiological purpose for WHY we dream though. As in, are they there for maintenance of memories? Or are they there for stress relief? Or something else?
But in response to anyone who has anything good to say about Fraud, I mean Freud... No really, I do have to be more fair to Freud because he did give some really compelling explanations for very common human experiences, which gave people a vocabulary to start talking about them even though he had little to no scientific evidence for any of it. However, that wouldn't have been so bad if the whole psychotherapy, psychodynamism, psychoanalytical junk/scam that exploded after him hadn't happened. Trust me, you do not need to see a $200/hr therapist for years at a time to correct thoughts and behaviors that you don't like. It's frightening the kind of damage a freudian therapist can do to people. It just seems like they got minimal training into a profit-making cult bent on making people feel like their lives are marginally getting better with each paycheck they cut to the therapist for their services. It's gotta be really bad for the older ones that have been around for a while, because they seem to seal themselves up into their freudian world, rather than having an open mind about current research. So some are just ignorant, and some are just con artists out for your buck. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 7/14/2008 1:24:25 AM | Oh yeah, and I feel like during freud's time, Jung was probably the closest out of that psychoanalytical era to identifying the physiological basis for dreaming, or at least the fact that there IS a physiological basis for dreaming. His whole "collective unconscious" just seems to me to be another word for the genetic commonality of humans as a species.
That leads to a funny thought for me though... Since humans have a lot of common frameworks of dreams that are largely independent of the society that they live in (although culture has a huge impact on different societies dream styles/archetypes)...I wonder how different the dreams of other intelligent primates are from human dreams. I suppose the biggest differences would be a result of our use of language. Then the diminishing influences would be their hunter/gatherer societies compared to our agricultural civilization, finally down to our cultures in general. I bet intelligent primates of the same species but in different areas of the world have equally similar dream styles as do humans from different areas/cultures. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/29/2009 9:59:09 PM | OMG ! She has just done It, Again ! She had a BiG Ol' Nightmare, came running Upstairs, crying . . . She told Me Her Dream . . . I paused, thought, , & shrugged. Outloud, I wondered, if we would hear about a dead person, before or after the Funeral ! Little one dreams of It . . . As It Happens !
I was crying in her dream, & an eX has passed, freaKily enough !
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/30/2009 5:07:16 PM | | Dreaming is rather bizarre. I dreamed of the smiley face moon the night prior to it happening. If I hadn't remembered the dream immediately after waking up, then later that night I would have shrugged off the worldly sighting as Deja Vu. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/30/2009 7:42:22 PM | I had a dream one night, about three or four years ago. I dreamt that my SO Mark walked in from outside and said "The monkey's dead. Better go check on her." I went out and saw Devin, the baboon lying on the ground, with her fur all plastered and dried at odd angles like an animal's fur gets when it was dead. Her mouth was a little bit open and her gums were dry, her teeth were dry and there were flies walking on her face and going in her mouth, but her eyes were still alive. She didn't move but her eyes tracked my movement and she blinked slowly. I went back inside and said to Mark, "She ain't dead, but she's not exactly alive either." That was the end of the dream.
Four days later I was outside, had fed the live and healthy Devin her morning bucket of fresh vegetables and furit and the dogs were out on the lawn tussling and growling and Devin, in her usual attempt to convey dominance made quick grabs at the fencing, and uttered a gutteral wOoof! sound to tell the dogs to knock it off. The dogs ignored her and so did I, for a bit, then I noticed she was acting odd, then sat down and wiped her nose and mouth with the back of her hand, and was whistling. I never heard her whistle before so I went over and she swayed a little, got up and tried to walk on all fours, but was unsteady and I suddenly realized she was choking! Well, you can't exactly go in a distressed baboon's cage and render aid safely so I waited about another twenty seconds until she lay down, but was not unconscious yet and got physical control of her and did a finger sweep in her mouth, pulled her tongue out to see if I could see the object. Couldn't see it. She was losing conciousness and I tried Heimlich maneuver to expel it but it wouldn't budge. She passed out and I tried to give breaths but no air would go in. I did chest compressions and when the blood began to circulate her eyes opened back up a bit just like in the dream and she was looking at me and tracking my movement. She was concious, but not really very alert. I knew it was futile and if I couldn't get air in it was a lost cause. I tried abdominal thrusts, and after she lost complete consciousness I did it so hard I felt her ribs crack a little, but still nothing came out. She died. I cried. Was that dream of four days ago a complete coincidence? | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/30/2009 9:37:52 PM | I had a dream last night that people with amputed limbs had them cooked and were eating them like hot dogs.
Strangely enough it didn't disturb me in the least.
Does that mean I'm crazy? | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/31/2009 8:49:49 AM | I posted this in a another thread about dreams earlier, but it's still relavant to this.
I always wonder where we go when we dream. We spend a third of our lives doing it. I have memories, I felt feelings and emotions in dreams.
They say in dreams your mind is kinda like a moziac spiraling outward tile after tile. When you dream you step back and look at and think as the whole moziac, as apposed to when you're concious and you are just seeing and thinking as the most recent and present tile.
So the 5 year old who you were is present and working when you're dreaming, along with all the rest of you and your experiences through life up to that moment. Even the dream and your reactions to it cause you to change in some way.
What are those tiles that make us though. Who's to say when they start? Is it every second? Is it every millisecond? How do we measure and chart the growth of our life?
I believe we do in moments. Life really is a succession of moments one after another. So how do we measure and chart these moments.
I realized it's by our emotions. One moment you're happy, one moment you're sad, one moment you're angry and so on. The distance between each moment varies.
So I guess we really are our emotions and we become and embody what we feel when we feel it. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/31/2009 10:58:58 AM | Since everyone has an opinion, mine uses computer terms to understand it. The brain has 3 different processing envoroments. It has the core set which handles the things like breathing walking ect. it then has the main side of the brain that we use and then the other side of the brain which acts as a subconsous.
The dream state of rem is when the brain sides switch to syncronize basically. deep rem shuts off the 3rd part to prevent muscle movement. This is needed becuse things would be backwards as the other side of the brain takes over for it to syncronize the data.
Someone that is a right brain thinker IE more artistic will switch over to the left side when in a rem dream state. someone that is a left brain thinker will switch over to right side in a rem state.
The dream state is a way for both sides of the brain to be utilized to process and store the sensory data without causing a person to go insane.
The amount of blood flow provided to the brain controls the amount of activated areas within the brain. The blood contains the fuel the brain needs to fire neurons.
Ever heard the term "sleep on it"? it is because thoughts are generally more complete after a good nights rest due to more balanced processing.
The passage " a double minded man is unstable in all his ways" comes from the lack of predictability due to more complete processing of information.
Example if someone thinks only with the logic side of their brain it becomes easier to figure out how they might think about something just by thinking with nothing but logic. Logic is restrictive of its results due to many of its parameters being a constant.
The artistic side of the brain however has far more varied results possible, and therefore harder to predict how it will react to certain data. Emotion, creativity, and abstract thought comes from the right side.
Dreams are a bridging of the two sides and a seperation of control of ones self as a safety measure.
Some people can create these bridges while awake if the blood flow to the brain can support both sides being activated at the same time.
How you sleep, what you eat before bed, what activities you engage in prior to your sleep can also have an effect on both how you dream as well as what you dream about.
Engaging in love making or some other physical activity that elevates your blood pressure prior to going to sleep will result in more lucid dreaming because more brain area can be activated resulting in a higher chance that you main consious side of your brain will remain active while it bridges with the other side of the brain.
This is just my opinion on its function. Yours may be different. Sorry for my spelling i have mild dyslexia and did not bother spell checking before posting. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/31/2009 1:15:44 PM | | Dreams, what's your take on predictive dreams like mine in post 40, or others posted by people about dreaming when others are dying. Sometimes it seems like dreaming has a telepathic element to it. One time my brother had a troubling dream that a girl he had dated a few times but was mostly friends with, then lost track of, came to his door in the middle of the night, pounding on his door, banging with her fists and screaming "Let me in! Please! Help me!" stuf like that. In his dream he opened the door and she was standing there with her face all bloody like she had been beaten up and he woke up. He was very disturbed by it but didn't know what to do. He finally went back to sleep, but the next day as soon as classes let out he got in his car and drove about an hour and a half from home to her last known residence. The kitchen door was broken and kicked in, signs of a struggle and no one was there. He went to her mom's house and the mom said her ex boyfriend had had a meth meltdown the night before and broken down the door and beaten her up and she was in the hospital now. The time she said it happened was the same time as my brother woke up from his dream... Do you know of any scientific research on stuff like that? It seems to run in families, and to a degree runs in my family, father's side. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/31/2009 2:20:30 PM | Dreams, what's your take on predictive dreams like mine in post 40
I am not so sure things like that can be in the same classification as dreams. They are not the norm and while they tend to happen when coming out of a dream state i think those odd happening are not so much dreams but instead exchanges of energy.
My explanation or more to the point my opinion of a possible explanation would be quite long because it goes into energy waves and how they travel.
Brief example. The reason we can see brain activity with equipment is due to the type of sensors used to monitor the brain wave energy.
Well what if there is ALSO another type of energy being emited at the same time? Just because we are not monitoring for a different type of energy emmission from the brain does not mean that the ONLY brain waves emmited are the ones we would be watching.
Situations of high stress like what you explained cause elevated blood presure which increases the blood flow to the brain. Lights up brain areas and increases the neural firings as a result of the increased o2 fuel sources that the increased blood flow delivered to the brain.
This next part is going to be a crude example but i could not think of a better example that most people could relate to.
You stick a bunch of women in a house that all have their periods at different times and after awhile their bodies sync up so to speak resulting in them all having their period at the same time.
The answer is likely in the question of how that process works.
My thought on it would be that we humans have layers of communication that are not yet widly known. Like a mixing of our energies or more like i said a syncing up of our energy.
going back up to the testing equipent used. Maybe we are also emiting other energy at either higher wave forms or lower wave forms that what the equipment is not able to register.
Maybe even a different form of energy all together that can not be measured like the energy that binds atoms together. the majority of the mass of an atom is made up of something that we can not yet see thus why they are using those colliders. to find the missing energy and mass of an atom.
maybe it is also linked to why there are brain cells at the back of our eye balls.
try this. find a completely dark place void of all light. rub you eye and then relax with your eyes closed. Do you see white dots, or some form of wave effect flowing from out to in or from the center outwards?
I have asked a bunch of friends this question and usually the ones that have said they see waves flowing from the center outwards have been in supervisory positions and ones that said waves moving from outwards inwards towrds the center have been in support role type positions and the ones that just see white spots generally work alone.
Why is that and what is the effect that is even being seen?
Maybe some kind of energy syncing up between us as we interact with others?
ok well that is the short version that just barely touches on each part of the thought.
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/31/2009 6:26:38 PM | | I'm not nodding off! I find this fascinating!!! Thanks for the response and the explanations.... lots to think about. We have such a crude understanding of some of the functions of our brain, and some things we just don't even know we don't know. | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 10/31/2009 9:46:35 PM |
I'm not nodding off! I find this fascinating!!!
Guess you have not been reprimanded by the wannabe forum police yet for posting long posts. I gave up long post awhile ago, figured nobody likes reading long detailed descriptions. of course i have written some rather long ones before on these forums...lol | |
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| The psychology of dreams Posted: 11/2/2009 7:44:36 AM | I like the idea that we are limited, with our human bodies. I believe there is a whole spirit world out there. I like the idea that the spirit world is not tied to our human concept of time. I believe then, that my daughter has spirit guides that talk to her, through her dreams. We are mostly removed from the dead people she dreams about. If she wouldn't dream It, we wouldn't know. Yes, the energy of these dead people, as they die, could be engaging her. Quite fascinating. | |
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