a question about dreams

Do you think they contain some sort of (hidden) message or do you think they're merely a vintage of random shots worth for naught?

(sometimes, never, always? answer it however you feel. If you feel poetic for some reason, hey, by all means feel free to bust out the soliloquy... if you feel funny, go ahead and crack that joke you have about dreams, etc.)

Yes, I believe that certain dreams are hidden messages of sorts, almost like a vision or gateway to the future. For example, if you have a dream where you experience your teeth falling out, then there'll be a death in the family. Never fails, always happens, and I have friends who can attest to it.

Magician said:

if you have a dream where you experience your teeth falling out, then there'll be a death in the family. Never fails, always happens, and I have friends who can attest to it.

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My sister says the same thing about her. However, I've had dreams about my teeth missing or having holes in them and nothing bad has happened. In fact, just a few days ago I had a dream where my teeth were missing, rotting, and falling out. My sister freaked out, but I'm not too worried. Only time will tell though.

I think they are just an experience, nothing more.

I have continous dreams about my close people dead... Any Idea what this might mean?

While I'm a Christian now, I wasn't always and messed around with a lot of stuff I shouldn't have and will not tamper with anymore... but during my Astral Projection days, I saw and went places before I actually went there, and when I did go there it was the same, meaning I was there OUT OF BODY beforehand. *When in deep sleep more often than not people do indeed have involuntary OBQ/Astral Experiences, this is more or less your soul connected by the silver chord that tethers you to your body. When in that state you can go anywhere. If you take classes with some truly weird types who know how to harness this, they'll teach you the fine points of Astral Projection at your will, but it's a dangerous thing since I don't believe GOD intended for mankind to play with such a thing as that, but no doubt the Native Americans used it as much with their VISION QUESTS. If you have ever suddenly and violenty jolted awake, it's because your soul tethered to the silver chord was yanked back to your biological housing when something was amiss on the Astral Plain, or your conscious mind became alarmed and in your sudden fear you come back. *Then there is the other type of sleep/dream, called "Lucid Dreaming" where the sub conscious mind is so ingranined in the "Overmind" state that dreams become more of premonitions but you never actually leave your body.

...now do ALL dreams mean something? I don't think so, but a lot of them are in fact warnings/visions. I have had three regular occuring dreams since I was 10 and they're not nice. If they prove to be "Visions" then I know by age 35-40 some sort of global war has occured or a take over (since the enemy has no face) and people are struggling just to get food. I've got a freckin' nasty scar that runs down my forehead all the way to my chin, badly healed at that, look dirty and probably stink... have an assault rifle slung over my left shoulder, and I'm standing in a dilapitated feild of junk and debris from a building nearby. I'm holding a little girl's hand (age of about 8 or so) and we wait for the sun to rise. I feel horror, and then I wake up. Never know what happens after the sun rises. Been having that dream since I was a kid. There are two more variations on it but they'd take to long to describe. *In once sense it gives me a sense of peace knowing it might mean I'll get my "Righteous War" to be apart of and fight in... on the other, I try not to put too much stock in it just because it in the past has lead to illusions of grandeur. Though there's nothing GRAND about the conditions of those dreams.

If you're gettin' your cawk sucked by a super model or a porn slut though, it probably just means your a normal male and you'll wake up sticky and with morning wood.

MERCENARY X99

I take dreams seriously, as mine can be quite lucid.

I believe dreams are simply an over-active fantasy/daydream whether its a pleasurable one or a nightmare. Since you are doing nothing but sleeping, I theorize that a good 80%+ of your mental ability can be used in dreaming; more CPU resources if you will. This supports why many people can see, feel, taste, smell, and hear in their dreams.

Because of this, dreams merely mean that you are thinking about something and you are experiencing what you are thinking. So in a way, it may mean nothing (like being your present age but walking into elementary school as a student again) or it could mean something (say if you were yelling your head off at a spouse, brother, etc), it definately means you have a problem with that person.

Reoccuring dreams (i've had plenty of variants) simply mean that you want or don't want that to happen.

Electroman said:

Reoccuring dreams (i've had plenty of variants) simply mean that you want or don't want that to happen.

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Well then I guess I got my answer then. R. Lee Ermy reffered to my type as "A minister of death praying for war." in the movie Full Metal Jacket.

MERCENARY X99

Dreams are just distorted reflections of your psychic subconscious activity.

Mercenary X99 said:

While I'm a Christian now, I wasn't always and messed around with a lot of stuff I shouldn't have and will not tamper with anymore... but during my Astral Projection days, I saw and went places before I actually went there, and when I did go there it was the same, meaning I was there OUT OF BODY beforehand. *When in deep sleep more often than not people do indeed have involuntary OBQ/Astral Experiences, this is more or less your soul connected by the silver chord that tethers you to your body. When in that state you can go anywhere. If you take classes with some truly weird types who know how to harness this, they'll teach you the fine points of Astral Projection at your will, but it's a dangerous thing since I don't believe GOD intended for mankind to play with such a thing as that, but no doubt the Native Americans used it as much with their VISION QUESTS. If you have ever suddenly and violenty jolted awake, it's because your soul tethered to the silver chord was yanked back to your biological housing when something was amiss on the Astral Plain, or your conscious mind became alarmed and in your sudden fear you come back. *Then there is the other type of sleep/dream, called "Lucid Dreaming" where the sub conscious mind is so ingranined in the "Overmind" state that dreams become more of premonitions but you never actually leave your body.

...now do ALL dreams mean something? I don't think so, but a lot of them are in fact warnings/visions. I have had three regular occuring dreams since I was 10 and they're not nice. If they prove to be "Visions" then I know by age 35-40 some sort of global war has occured or a take over (since the enemy has no face) and people are struggling just to get food. I've got a freckin' nasty scar that runs down my forehead all the way to my chin, badly healed at that, look dirty and probably stink... have an assault rifle slung over my left shoulder, and I'm standing in a dilapitated feild of junk and debris from a building nearby. I'm holding a little girl's hand (age of about 8 or so) and we wait for the sun to rise. I feel horror, and then I wake up. Never know what happens after the sun rises. Been having that dream since I was a kid. There are two more variations on it but they'd take to long to describe. *In once sense it gives me a sense of peace knowing it might mean I'll get my "Righteous War" to be apart of and fight in... on the other, I try not to put too much stock in it just because it in the past has lead to illusions of grandeur. Though there's nothing GRAND about the conditions of those dreams.

If you're gettin' your cawk sucked by a super model or a porn slut though, it probably just means your a normal male and you'll wake up sticky and with morning wood.

MERCENARY X99

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Dude, I've had the same type of dreams for as long as can remember....and they still come occassionally. Mustve started when I was about 5 or 6 but they all center around some really fucked up time when a army in navy blue uniforms and hi tech combat technology are literally beating the living hell out of the nations around the globe. The earth is semi-desolated, water levels have become insanely high, flooding out cities, and people are starving everywhere. In a fe wof the dreams I was actually a slave in some massive factory while in others I was out in battlefields fighting against the navy blue army whose faces would start to felt for some odd reason. Then there are the even odder dreams were a being or beings show me things on large screens, but these tend to be more religious in nature. ie, people praying and suddenly their skin gets these acid like burns. When I was a kid, I used to be scared to go to sleep to avoid the dreams, but my parents thought I was simply afraid of the dark lol

Steve said:

Do you think they contain some sort of (hidden) message or do you think they're merely a vintage of random shots worth for naught?

(sometimes, never, always? answer it however you feel. If you feel poetic for some reason, hey, by all means feel free to bust out the soliloquy... if you feel funny, go ahead and crack that joke you have about dreams, etc.)

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Well, according to Freud...

I haven't normally had dreams when I've been at the dorms, however when I'm home I seem to dream about alien lifeforms invading Earth. IMO, I don't think dreams should be taken with too much thought.

Like the writer H.P. Lovecraft (if you didn't guess that I'm an H.P. fanboy then may Cthulhu punish you eternally), I have nightmares rather frequently. Not as hellish as his, but not very nice either.

They usually revolve around the idea of guilt. I have one recurrent nightmare in which, for some reason, I murder a number of people. When I realise what I have done, I start to get corroded by guilt and fear, and ultimately I have to pay for what I've done.

@MERC X99 / MEGADRIVE 20XX: your dream sounds a bit too similar to that film...what was it called..."Red Dawn" or something? The one in your old sig...I just watched it the other day, lol, quite a nice old film from the good ol' 80's

I wouldn't say that most dreams have any signifigant meaning. 99.9% of the time, I can pinpoint things that happened in my dreams and tie them to events in my actual life. I've had reoccuring dreams before, but most of them were completely nonsensical and I haven't really thought anything of them.

Mercenary X99 said:

...now do ALL dreams mean something? I don't think so, but a lot of them are in fact warnings/visions. I have had three regular occuring dreams since I was 10 and they're not nice. If they prove to be "Visions" then I know by age 35-40 some sort of global war has occured or a take over (since the enemy has no face) and people are struggling just to get food. I've got a freckin' nasty scar that runs down my forehead all the way to my chin, badly healed at that, look dirty and probably stink... have an assault rifle slung over my left shoulder, and I'm standing in a dilapitated feild of junk and debris from a building nearby. I'm holding a little girl's hand (age of about 8 or so) and we wait for the sun to rise. I feel horror, and then I wake up. Never know what happens after the sun rises. Been having that dream since I was a kid. There are two more variations on it but they'd take to long to describe. *In once sense it gives me a sense of peace knowing it might mean I'll get my "Righteous War" to be apart of and fight in... on the other, I try not to put too much stock in it just because it in the past has lead to illusions of grandeur. Though there's nothing GRAND about the conditions of those dreams.MERCENARY X99[/B] [/B]

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Come on. That's one's easy. It just means that one day you'll have to repopulate the world together!

Lovecraft0110 said:

@MERC X99 / MEGADRIVE 20XX: your dream sounds a bit too similar to that film...what was it called..."Red Dawn" or something? The one in your old sig...I just watched it the other day, lol, quite a nice old film from the good ol' 80's

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WOLVERINES!!!

If recurrent dreams mean something you want to avoid then i want to avoid beeing chased by Predator in my former elementary school.

I ve seen that movie in Theater when i was a kid, i was really thrilled but then scared at night... since that night i m having the dream once every 1 or 2months. Anyway i like this one, since i manage to escape -and Predator kills a teacher i hate-

There are several theories about dreaming, but i'm sure as hell not gonna pull out my old psych 101 book from five years ago, so i'll just spout off what i remember and what i think.

Dreams are a way for your subconscious to process and deal with waking events and create almost a "memory bank" to draw upon in case these events reoccur. The random imagery comes from the neurons in your brain that become excited during REM sleep and start to fly around your noggin, literally slamming in to areas of your brain that contain said images (neural nodes?) and triggering them (i swear i read this somewhere? Anyone?).

That being said, i do believe there is an aspect of dreaming that can't be explained with science. Myself and many of my friends have had dreams that seem to come true in some way, shape, or form. I also think that my constant deja vu stems in some way from situations experienced first in dreams, then in real life. It could be that we are in fact remembering events that HAVEN'T happened yet. Precognitive dreams could be explained if you subscribe to the theory that at birth, our DNA contains information about our whole lives...

Obviously this shit is in the realm of "crazy ass theory", but it's interesting stuff to ponder, nonetheless...

Mercenary X99 said:

WOLVERINES!!!

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HAHAHAHAHAH!!

Yeah, that one

Great film!

Dreams are echoes that get garbled in the transmission.