Dreams: Fiction or Prediction?

[Besimudo]

If someone has a dream that they are in a car accident and then the next day it happens then it is strange.

Some people here seem to like only controllable knowledge. i.e. stuff that is repeatable.

Dreams are a higher reality than this, however.


Cheers.

[Megami]

Not prediction...neither fiction.

I agree with the psychology's point of view.

I think dreams are more of a way of our subconscious to tell us something. Most likely something we either realize but do not admit it to ourselves, or that we are unaware of at a superficial level. I have had dreams that I have remembered that were related to situations in my life at that time.

That said, I do not think all dreams have meaning, though some do. I tend only to remember dreams that evoke strong emotions, usually nightmares. Most of the time they have meaning, sometimes they do not.

Dreams is what we have "inside" of us but it doesn't have to be what we are afraid to admit.
It's difficult to know what dreams "mean" but I don't believe they are a kind of prediction; I believe they are our thoughts and feelings, in a "codified" way.
The thing is, as Freud said, in our day life, we have the "repression process" , (if I am spelling it right in English), we have social rules that we keep learning and saving it inside of us, so we can't express ourselves to the limit, even if we wanted it...there are some things that aren't just aceptted by society.

But in our dreams, that process is in a less scale, and we "let it out" feelings that we can't understand or are afraid to admit, or anything related to fears or desires/wishes. This is our subconscious working.
Unfourtunately, not all dreams are that easy to "translate"... Sometimes, they are given us as symbols - like I said the process of repression is less but it's still here.

Well...

after all:

There's nothing "new" about dreams , at least, it wasn't proven yet.

It's just a mixture of feelings, fears, wishes and desires, that live in our mind.

[Avarice-ness]

Some people say that Deja Vu is when all of the deminsions you are currently in meet up and do the same thing, and all your consiciousness meeting up in the same spot makes the Deja Vu happen. Other people say you're repeating something you did in a past life. Sometimes people dream of a simular situation and remember it. Some doctor's say Deja Vu is accured because your brain kind of shuts off for less than a milisecond and when it's back on you remember doing what ever you were doing, because you were just doing it a second ago.

I remember most of all of my dreams, which is a good thing 'cause they tend to show me how my day is going to be or show me bluntly what my problems are. I'm a very pro-believer in dream interpretation and such.

Dreams are like a movie written by your subconcious left to your conciousness to interpret. You may have a dream about a purple dog with a flower in it's mouth, something you may consider a funny dream, but when you interpret how you may know this purple dog with a flower in it's mouth, you may realize that you have a family friend who's birthday was last week and you saw her in a shirt with a purple dog with a flower in it's mouth. But you may -never- realize that connection. Dreams are the closest way a person can ever know themselves.

If the person is clairvoiyant they may be able to see peices of the future, it might also be peices from different dreams that come together to reach what happens, 'causing Deja vu, you remember doing this before, but it may be a cause of several dreams telling you it instead of one telling you the future point blank.

If you can remember your dreams (I can! ) then get a book and write them all down, if you buy one of those dream dictionaries, you should first interpret it yourself, and then think of the thing that stands out the most, then you would look for that thing in a dream dictionary or something of your choice. The strongest memory from a dream is normally the one that wants to tell you something, but if you remember alot of things write them all down.
Who knows, what you right down might come around and happen tomorrow.

[boys from the dwarf]

their always an interesting topic to discuss but its really all thoughts and often subconscious thoughts.

dreams are wierd though but their nothing supernatural even though they often seem it.

they usually have some sort of meaning though and you can find out why you had most dreams.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Since we don't know exactly how the brain operates the purpose of dreams can only be guessed at. While it's easy to measure the physical changes in the body during a dream (see: REM) the mind, the part that actually experiences the dream and can report on it, cannot be. It's interesting that during sleep, when the concious mind is supposedly switched off to an extent, that we are still able to remember these dreams. Some theories suggest that dreams have something to do with our learning, that by associating events, people, places, object etc. in seemingly random situations we can become more strongly attached to them by creating stronger links in our minds.

The actual interpretations of dreams by so-called "dream experts" is tenuous at best. Many objects that may not appear in everyone's dreams (for example seeing a car crash or a plane flying overhead) cannot be attributed to some people that may not encounter these things. Are we to believe that tribes in the rainforest dream about John Madden unicycling down the motorway? It goes along the same lines as tarot card reading and psychic predicitions : a series of vague statements and fishing questions to discern some semblance of higher knowledge.

What is interesting is that some people experience dreams in different ways to others. There seems to be no real link between mental ability and the frequency of dreams. Even more interesting is how people can consiously manipulate their dreams (commonly known as lucid dreaming) while others either cannot remember their dreams or sometimes believe that something is happening in the dream in real life. For something that apparently aids us for some reason (and evolutionary speaking if we all experience it then it is a part of our genetics that has hung on for an advantageous reason) it's wholly inconsistent in it's execution.

[Madame Adequate]

I had a dream about Hitler last night.

I cheered him up because everyone hated him, got his autograph (Not because I actually wanted it, but for $$$), and then pulled of a family member who tried to throttle him.

... I sincerely hope dreams are nothing other than random brain workings. :/

[Avarice-ness]

I either have dreams that mean something to me or dreams that are only 'caused because I watch to much TV or play to many games.

I was once on an episode of House and I gave the entire hospital some kind of disease. He save me~

[Araciel]

my dreams are seepage of random ideas, thoughts, and experiences i've had in a day...maybe coupled with some inner demons and desires...that's it

[Jebus]

I had a dream once where I was told my a lamb with sores on it's face that one day the virtuous people of the world would bow to me.

Luckily it's just a dream...right?

[Eiko Guy]

Im all for the astral plane idea and how we have a second persona that we only can control during dreams. Oh one thing that I thought up that most people have thought was deep. "Have you ever thouht the nights where we don't dream are just dreams of darkness"

[Jojee]

My bf swears that he dreams the future but he doesn't remember those dreams until they happen, and then he recalls that he dreamt this or whatever o_O;; Confuses me xD He's not really the type to lie about it but I don't think that it's true either, just his mind confusing himself ^^ I don't believe in dreaming the future.

[Anaisa]

Dreams are very important, an if looked at appropriately, can tell you your future. People would do well to pay them more attention. We need dreams to maintain a healthy mind, so dreams serve a very important purpose. Dreams are necessary. Why would we need them, if they were mere stories?

Scientists have tried to explain that "Deja-vu" is simply something in our mind that is triggered to make us think that we have been in that situation before, but what would be the purpose of that? especially if that situation is completely insignificant in our life.

That theory also doesn't have any explanation as to how people can have knowledge of a place or situation etc, that by scientific standards, they shouldn't have.

[Captain Maxx Power]

I had a dream once where I was told my a lamb with sores on it's face that one day the virtuous people of the world would bow to me.

Luckily it's just a dream...right?

How awfully biblical. Then again I'd bow to you anyday Jeebs

[Dr. Acula]

I predict that an EOFF member will post after me.

Wow. You're good.

I had a dream back when I was eight or so (yes I can remember a dream I had that long ago!) that the whole school turned into vampires, and when they turned on the water taps blood came out instead.

If that's prediction, I have a feeling I'll stay away from that school for a while.