Do dreams mean anything?

[drbarno]

i think that its a bit of both, some dreams can mean something, some don't
alos i have dreamt the future but its mostly the boring parts of the next day, and its usually only 5 seconds of that day.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Gah. I wish I dreamed. Then i'd be able to answer.

 

[HonorableChairman]

No - and I struggle with the idea that your brain turns everything into a huge fucked-up metaphor just to say you're feeling a bit upset.

Well, why?

Dreams are a representation of the subconscious, and if you're agitated, the dreams are likely to come out in an agitated manner. The same holds true if you're calm.

 

[Archemetis]

I had a dream that me and girlfriend stole a lime-green sofa...
You tell me if it means anything.

 

[Woodsey]

No - and I struggle with the idea that your brain turns everything into a huge fucked-up metaphor just to say you're feeling a bit upset.

Well, why?

Dreams are a representation of the subconscious, and if you're agitated, the dreams are likely to come out in an agitated manner. The same holds true if you're calm.

I've had a dream where I've been chased around the desert by Godzilla (me and a few hundred other people) - when someone can give me a reason for that other than my reasoning (where it's just one of those stupid scenarios you make up) then I'll fully accept it.

I get it for simple things - but I don't see why in yourself you'd make stupid connections to things to say how you've been feeling.

 

[A Random Reader]

Dreams are randoms groups of memories that (if I remember correctly) are spliced together to form a dream that happens during REM in deep sleep. meaning if you only get 6 or less hours of sleep you should not dream. feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Caligulove]

I think they mean that my brain is aware and actively indexing all the things that happen to me during the day. Then it just goes crazy and abstract when unconscious and try to bring it all together

 

[El Poncho]

No, they pretty much take things you've seen or thought before and mash it up into one crazy ride of funtastic confuzzlement.

 

[MorsePacific]

They might or they might not. I hear tell that dreams can reveal a lot about someone's psyche.

Personally, I don't put much faith in dreams. Why is it considered normal to fall asleep, hallucinate vividly for several hours, then wake up, possibly with no memory of the ordeal, and go about your day?

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Dreams are either random mash-ups of your thoughts throughout the day, or your subconsciousness fucking with your head trying to say something.

 

[WayOutThere]

I believe that dreams carry at most incidental meaning; that it is not their purpose to be meaningful and they exist to fufill physiological and not psychological purpose.

see here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/health/10mind.html?_r=1&sudsredirect=true

 

[Instant K4rma]

"A dreams' a lie that wont come true" - Bruce Springsteen.

Kinda depressing, huh?

 

[Standby]

To me, the only thing dreams to is illustrate what is on your mind in some concious or sub-concious level.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Sometimes. I actually had a dream last night that I was in a bathroom that was enormous and I saw someone that looked like Obama leave a stall so I came up to him and said "Merry Christmas" and he turned around and he had turned from Obama into an old white man with a big beard and he said that he was something to do with the government. Then he opened a door and there was snow everywhere and a helicopter was waiting for him. Then I woke up. Can anyone tell me what that dream means?

 

[Disaster Button]

I really hope not because then I am even more crazy then even I realised, but I think they do on some level.

 

[mr man]

i once had a dream where i went to a circus and was turned into a skateboard, so i teamed up with a guy who was turned into a goat and escaped the circus.

i am not sure what that dream meant though.

 

[mrhappyface]

I don't understand what being a mongoose while sitting in my lifeguard chair (yes, i'm a lifeguard) while watching Grunts from Halo and Helghast playing Water Polo in the Navy pool supposed to mean though. They're usually just really weird reiterations of my day at work.

But then again, i looked it over and then it came to me! My subconcious is giving me a message: Get a more exciting job! But i won't since it pays well.

 

[theironbat46]

I convinced my mom to play L4D ONCE. She had nightmares for the next 3 weeks.
P.S She wasn't good at the game.

 

[pqowieurytlaksjdhfg]

Dreams, the subcontious state of your brain, only occur in REM (Rapid Eye Movement, or something)A.K.A light sleep, and your brain makes an image subcontiously, dreams are normally offected by resent event, if nothing that bothers you or anything intresting has happened, your dreams will mean nothing, how ever, studies tell us that states of happiness, depression, and pretty much any emotion if in a great amount, will offect your dream depending on the event.

In summary: Most of the time, no

 

[Broady Brio]

If my dreams meant anything I would be in prison now for kerb-stomping anyone I didn't like.