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Again, it has been 3 years since I asked about this topic. I want to see what people believe in now.

"You know how people talk about Dream lands and how we also hear about Astral Projection (Traveling)? Well what if we actually leave our bodies during our sleep and dreams and go to the "dream land" and actually live a whole other life? What if when we're awake we r dreaming in "dream land"?"

Do we get to live our "dream life"??

I think on that one... where we go is where we want to be. Our dreams take us to places that we long for. We may not consciously know that's what we want, but our minds do.

It's different for everyone I suppose but for most dreams are their subconscious thoughts, wants and desires but for some it's when they remember. My dreams are hardly ever my desires but precognitions in some cases or memories I suppress in my waking hours bleeding through.

I'd like to think yes. but two thing, one what of a nightmare how is that related to your "dream life" and I remember what I dream and it often doesn't involve me so how does that relate?

When we dream of a nightmare it could be our biggest fear playing out in front of us. When we dream of other people not involving us, we could be looking in on someone else's "dream life".

When we dream we are in our own heads.

"What if when we're awake we r dreaming in "dream land"?"

Do we get to live our "dream life"??"


I like your words and what are you pointing at.

Best dreams are when we recognize them as such.
When we wake up, while still in the "dream land".
Then we have the control we need and all the fun.

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Allthough a romantic idea. I believe that we stay in our heads sorta speak. Dreams can be beautiful, or scary and everything else that can be imagined......But it's all in our minds.

Ever have a dream where you're in a landscape you've never seen before in your life and the very next day or couple of days later you see it in the waking world? there you go) pychology (everyday basis and awake) refers this as "dual tracking" or as more commonly known your brain is multi-tasking/autopilot. LOL

Oh and in science, theories of paradigm galaxies meaning it's the same exact galaxy as another galaxy just the happenings in it are different so its possible to have two of you- one here on earth and another in the same exact galaxy far away. This is all theorized though so don't count me on this.

There are those who can astral project consciously at will and those who can dream walk.

Dreams let us in to what we want,what we fear, and what is to come.

I agree with the above statement... It's like a filing system what happens to you during the previous day. These "files" are sorted and categorized then filed in to groups that are easy to associate in our memories. Which accounts for our strangest of dreams. Then on top of that once filed these new memories are combined with our new ones and used to predict possible out comes in a safe environment. We play out these what if scenarios in the safety of our minds while the body is in a state of rest, so that we are left relatively unharmed, at least physically. Fears are played out as well as hopes and wild ideas in these various scenarios, so that when facing an issue similar to the one in our dream we know how to react. People that sleep too little or too much or stay in one stage of sleep for too long tend to develop long lasting social, physical, and psychological issues. Aside from sleep disorders like sleep walking, but that's another story.

I believe its just the underlying part of our minds connecting dots in a different way. Dreams are a way of solving problems, expressing desire and emotions and exploring different parts of your self.

there are also day dreams and dreams that feel real as u are having them i have had dreams that feel so real my brain thinks i'm awake

If that's so if we left our bodies and traveled to these dream lands that could be an interesting factor in the human experience but then I would wonder what happens to those who do not dream what happens to them

I have an Iphone app that has keywords you can put in from your dream and they tell you what it means. If you wanna find out message me gadly tell you if anyone is interested. Or try it for yourself it's called "IDream"

dreams for me is just like opoturnitty

I'm not sure honestly. I've often wondered this myself. Dreams can be so random, are they multiple lives? are they simple memories, or the cause of deja vu? What always makes me wonder most.... is what if the dreams are realty, and this is the dream.

idk really. dreams are weird. but i dont believe we leave our bodies. when you sleep your brain is the only thing really going and it just mixes all of your information up and makes a scene out of all of it.

"Of course it's in your head, but why should that mean that it isn't real?"

Just because things can be explained logically doesn't mean that they aren't divine or supernatural or whatever.

That being said that is a good question that I have always wondered myself. But, I don't think so, simply because our dreams are so easily influenced by what we do in our daily lives. Or sometimes, while we are asleep, outside stimuli can influence our dreams. For example: Last night my room mate was snoring and it sounded like she was saying "Ben...Beeennnn.... Ben..." In my dream, I was seeing me and my room mate, looking for a guy named Ben. o.O.

However who's to say that it isn't the other way around? That this is the dream world and what we perceive as the dream world is actually the real one?

but what about the people sharing the same dream at the same time??

To me dreams are your deepest, darkest desires that you would never think of doing otherwise... kind of like when you get drunk and you act completely different.

Dreams tap into your subconscious(?) and lets you act out your fantasies, or what you actually want to do.

That's true, that's exactly how my psych teacher was describing dreams. However I believe that dreams are one of those areas that could mean anything.
For example- Last May one of my best friends died of an overdose. She didn't usually do drugs so I guess someone gave her too much. I was distraught and was having problems coming to terms with it. Until I had a dream. She came to me in a dream. She hugged me and cried and so did I. It wasn't just that it felt real, she had been sending me signals for a long time. Leaving dice that she was buried with, finding stuff of hers that we never had at our house. In this dream she knew she was gone and she was saying goodbye. I told her I never wanted to wake up, she said 'I know'.
So, to quote Dumbledore again "Of course its happening in your head, why should that mean it isn't real?" People have more power then scientific explanations give them credit for. I saw my friend one last time that night. Its given me a little bit of closure. I miss her so much still. But I'm glad that she gave me a little bit of time before she moved on.

To go with what Sifa has said, I had a similiar dream...

It was the night my best friend was shot, after I found out I was in total denial, expecting him to walk through the door and say something about it all being a joke. That night I dreamt that we were just driving around, like we usually did, holding hands (we often did that), and just talking about life. The next morning, my roommate tried to wake me up, but I didn't want to get out of bed, because I could feel his arms around me and it made me feel safe, he whispered in my ear "I'll always be here for you, baby. It's time to get up and face reality." He gave me a kiss and the feeling of a hug and then he was gone.

It will be 6 years on March 27, and I still wake up sometimes with the feeling that he is laying next to me. I know that he still loves me and I talk to him all the time.

I know that it is my subconscious telling me that everything will work out, but it is also the fact that knowing he is there sometimes that helps me through a tough day or night.

i dont remember any of my dreams and when i do they are always bad dreams about the past or things im afraid of so i honestly thing that there is no dream world.

Perhaps we visit each other and places we've never seen before...all this unfettered energy running loose. When we are asleep, our "souls" go lurking about, leaving the physical body on auto pilot. Any suggestion sounds plausible.

I believe that dreams do not have just one explanation or meaning. I agree with many whom have stated that dreams “play out” parts of our subconscious experiences. I also believe that dreams are not a repetition of the same function/dynamic.

I also believe in other possibilities related to dreams. Such as Astral Travel and even the possibility that we have entered into another dimension. To include to have experiences there with other individuals or intelligences.

In response to evilkittty: Yes, I have had those dreams that feel so real, that I don't think they would be "normal" dreams.

I feel that sometimes dreams are the product of our imagination. Did you see something, read something, watch something that unknown to you, stuck in your head and your subconscious mixed it with imagination to replay that detail as a dream? I talk to myself all the time in my dreams - usually to tell myself to end the dream cycle and get some rest.

Most of the times dreams are the product of our super subconscious just our subconscious, trying to make sense and dealing with our every day lives, worries, stresses, emotions, etc. and translating them into something that we would psychologically understand in time.

Oft times, the dreams aren't necessarily dreams at all, but our dimensional travels through the ethereal (astral) dimensions (planes).

There is a distinct difference between the two. Sometimes you feel as though you can fly or are flying and can control certain aspects of the dream. That would be the ethereal (astral) dream, the other dream you can't control and are hardly aware that you are in the dream.

when i was 10 or 11 i dreamed that i was on a swing. i was a little poney tailed girl just swinging. when all of a sudden i flipped over the top of the swing rotating until i came to a dead stop up at the top part of the swing still on it. i remember looking at the playground and hearing hissing sounds. i don't see anything until this huge, black snake ( a cobra) was slithering toward me . i was terrified but not screaming as he came up. then he opened his jaws with a hiss and waited for me to fall. somtimes i would fall and be eaten by the snake other times i would not. but i know one thing i can't forget it , his green eyes , the scales , that hiss, truely terifying.

I like where you're getting at with wondering where we go when we're dreaming. If we go by what science says we're in our heads. But then theres people who walk and talk in there sleep. Maybe part of our dreams are in our heads. I know when I have a nightmare, I usually get hurt in nightmares, and I'll wake up with cuts, scratch marks, and bruises that were never there when I went to bed. So maybe to some of us dreams are more real than to most. We might all have a 'Dream land' the big difference would be to what degree we are able to get to our dream land.

~ShesMyGoddess~, This would depend on how deeply you get into the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep state.

i think dreams can be our subconsince telling us of what we desire and our nightmares are our fears of what could happen now for example dreams that happen in real life or precognition have happened to me recently but i think dreams are a form of desire

I agree with Demi on this one.
We dream of things that we want to happen, most of the time.

But if what you dream is truely what you desire what does that say of the person doing the dreaming .
if what you dream horrifies you.

That is your mind trying to cope with your stress level from the night or week before.

Based on what science has had to say in the past was only on the limited info they had at the time. Concepts of why we dream from psychologist are just ideas and as we can see from the starting gate Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jun clearly show a division. A dream can be just a random spasm, it could also be lucid if trained or by accident, it could be astral and OBE. The scientific NDE studies performed over the past decades indicate that heightened mental functions can be experienced independently of the body at a time when brain activity is greatly impaired or seemingly absent (such as during cardiac arrest). Some of these studies demonstrate that blind people can have veridical perceptions during OBEs associated with an NDE. Other investigations show that NDEs often result in deep psychological and spiritual changes.
These findings strongly challenge the mainstream neuroscientific view that mind and consciousness result solely from brain activity. As we have seen, such a view fails to account for how NDErs can experience—while their hearts are stopped—vivid and complex thoughts and acquire veridical information about objects or events remote from their bodies.
NDE studies also suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality that normally is not accessible to our senses and awareness. Needless to say, this view is utterly incompatible with the belief of many materialists that the material world is the only reality.

So dream on my friends dream on

in my opinion our dreams always have something to do with our real lives, even if it's only the slightest bit... here in my country we have superstitious beliefs like if you dream of Water it means Tears...

Dreams are just dreams, and cannot cause or predict anything..

At this juncture it is wise to mention the leading "mind benders" .
Leading hypnotists have recognised the brain forms highways...like the I5 the 405 or the M25.
The more regularly one travels down this main highway the more that particular thought is enforced, including it's eventual outcome.
Paul McKenna is a leading light and repeatedly states that those who have a very negaitive thought experience can break that highway through meditation and nerve stimulation.
Therfore, if you have a traumatic experience it is impotant to cross wire those thoughts with a very positive or funny experience.
However, whilst dreaming it is almost impossible to stop re-inforcing a bad experiece and creating a larger highway. Hypnotism seems the way forward.
None of this explains repeatedly walking in foriegn landscapes that seem very real and have no basis in real life.

i dont have happy so called dreams, but its not what i would call nightmares, though most would. i find life in dreams, when i dont dream it seems like being dead. so im hoping when one dies thats where they go.. in an eternal dream world.

I believe when you sleep, your mind simply wanders through memories, wishes, thoughts, etc.. and since you're asleep, it projects it for you. We always have dreams only relating to what we thought in the past or seen.

Well I work at the same damn place in the real world and the dream world. UGH!

LadyKate I liked your part of the Galaxies. I have thought of that many times. :)

I wrote about this in the tread abilities.I dream abouth another world,actualy it is like i am living in the another world when i am sleeping.

My dreams isn't just wishes or memories.My husband and i have the same dreams at the same time.How can it be a memori when i am dreaming about creatures that i never saw or heard about it?I know this thing is real,and i realy like it.

dreams are just dreams, and we don't have to rely on it.

I have actually had an experience with astra dreaming during high school. I was hanging out with some interesting people at that time. We did a lot of oujah talking with spirits and demons. For about two months I did not get any real sleep. While my body was sleeping my astra was out wandering the streets of the city with my friends. There was a figure in dark robes keeping pace with us and several weird thing happened.

Has anyone ever spoken with a demon who goes by DYC? If so, send me a message.

there is no reason that both our waking world and dream worlds are equally valid....
altho if my dream world is reality, then the universe is really odd...you have no idea of some of the dreams ive had LOL.

~W~

I think it's possible that when we sleep here, we could travel to other planes of existence, whether it's something we like or don't like, and seemingly 'live' out parts of life there maybe. There's been many times I've seemed to live another 'life' in my dreams and whatnot and even to the point of where I might get hurt in the dream and then wake up here and have the same bruise, cut, scrape, etc from the dream in the same spot but yet it was not there when I went to sleep. A friend of mine spoke about it being called 'dream walking' with being able to live life in the dreams and they're an alternate reality or whatnot.

dreams can be real but mostly i believe they are to put fear in us to awaken us to something that may be greater for us idk

I read that dreams are simply memories being jumbled up. Even memories we do not know about. Some believe our dreams to mean something more than we can possibly interpret just like you cannot perfectly describe your own self. They also try to say that dreams are only in black and white. I don't believe that because I definitely can identify color in my dreams as well as certain smells, tastes, and touch. For example one night I was sleeping when camping with the family. I dreamt that my brother had kicked me. I woke up and angrily told my parents that he was kicking me. My parents both laughed and said he went to go to the bathroom.

I think that when we dream we allow out selves to full fill all of our wants and hopes when we fall into slumber it gives our bodies a chance to do and live out all the things we are either afraid or have no chance of doing or accomplishing when we are wake. In our dreams we are free to live the life and have the freedom that we want because our dreams come from our hearts and with a strong heart any dream no matter how big or how small can become a beautiful reality

I think dreams are like reflections of the day even as the moon reflects the sunlight at night. Of particular interest is the night of the new moon-not much reflecting going on there:)

Dreams and astral travel are quite different. Dreams are the way to read your consciousness. You can interpret them and discover what is secretly troubling you, your desires, and so much more. Astral travel is traveling out of the body; you can pretty much go anywhere, learn anything, shift through dimensions, etc. Imagine it, and it can be done.

I go can Astral travel asleep and awake. And did you know you can share dreams with people? its amazing isn't it?

I can also do the same^. Yes, yes it is. I found my love by visiting his dreams.. He lives states away. It was a random chance that I could connect to him through our minds.

From my own experience I can say that when I dream I tend to subconsiously replay events from that day if it was a busy one or 'eventfull' shall I say. I believe that our minds need this 'downtime' to process and learn from day to day experiences. I have no recolection of travelling somewhere else in my dreams except finding myself in locations I am already familar with.

Of course sometimes I find myself dreaming the most random series of events that seem to have no meaning whatsoever, except for the occasional time when I've dreamed of an event occuring then a matter of hours/days later it does. But that's another story.

Nikki, me too i found my fiance through dreams. i recently found him on vr and now were engaged. i am so greatful for astral projection.

There are those who can perform astral projection effortlessly and not even know it. But there isn't exactly a "dream land". There are many different worlds or spheres of existence that can be visited through astral projection ((you should know which one you would like to visit before attempting)). However, when most people dream while sleeping, it is sort of like their own "lala land". Like day dreaming but more vividly sometimes.

I have different 'types' of dreams.Each 'type' feels different. I have dreams where I am in the same house. I've never seen this house while awake. When I am having this dream the feeling is different than the feeling I have when I dream of those who have passed on. I speak to my mother and best friend this way. I know I am asleep at the time (strange) and I know that they have died. Though I have asked many times they will not tell me what happens after death, they say they can't. Since we only use a percentage of our mental ability while we are consious, maybe when we are sleeping our sub consious allows us to use a larger percentage of our brain and it's abilities?

knowing that would depend on if you could control your dream enough to preform tests

My dreams have ranged widely. From total bliss to complete terror. I'm not sure if thats what can be called another life, but a purgatory of multiple levels.

The 'dream world' is an interesting thing. Not only are we in the subconscious, but we are without ourselves, and if you can 'walk' others. I do believe in astral walking, and I have seen many different things that many could categorize as sometimes Deja vu... I have drempt things that would happen, places I have later gone. The aspect of this is a dream can be more then just a fantasy or a memory repressed.

A dream could be by far a message as well. They say if you die in your dreams you die in real life, well that's only partially true. There are factors of which you must have for that to happen, though I will not speak of them.

A dream as a message could be something as simple as say where you left your car keys, to something as omen as who in your family is going to die.

As for astral projection, or dream walking. To walk in another's dream is to watch another, to help or harm in some way. Though often times those you slip into this state with tend to never remember till you bring it up.

I have also see what is called shared dreams, separate from astral projection... but similar in ways as well. These dreams are not of either of yours, yet both share it none the less.

So, what is a dream? Are they sub conscious, or are they in fact spiritual? Well think of them as a little bit of both, they could be a different world, a different life. yet in the same sense, the same life, same world that we have woken to time and time again.

Intertwines in a webbing of mysticism one would wonder how to even explain it. Best way... don't let the message come to you naturally, ask for meanings when you are stumped. but also get a second opinion. If they don't match up with each other... search on your own...

Very good question. I believe it is possible our bodies cannot go where our mind can. Dreams are just one place our mind can go that our body cannot.

I like the concept, but I've never had real lucid dreams to the point where I can put any stock in the theory.

They say that dreams are the wants, and or fears of your subconscious so as much as I would like to think you are going somewhere when you dream, I think you're just within your own head.. makes you think doesn't it?

I was told by an old Irish aunt that what we dream is our lives in an alternate reality and vice versa...

What if dreams are an alternate reality? But then that begs the question, what if you don't dream? My mother never dreams but I dream every night, but never the exact same dream. So........

I hoenstly don't believe that we're living out a different life when we dream for the simple fact that most of the time, or atleast for me, our dreams don't 'synch up', there's not an actual chain of events...or anything. You know how when we are awake, we are living a day to day life? Well when I'm sleeping I could dream about anything without there being any connection to the last dream that I've had.

When you sleep everything shuts down but the base things needed to keep you alive. Your brain is the most active during sleep and to keep from getting so bored as to shut down it has to do something. So your brain replays things you've seen, heard, felt, smelled... That's why they can seem so real sometimes. Anything you've ever seen or done is stored in your brain whether you realize you've seen it or not. Anything you've ever made up is mixed in and then you get dreams. They're made to keep your brain entertained and moving while you're asleep. That's all. For the most part dreams are nonsense. You don't actually remember your dreams or that you did dream most of the time. I bet you didn't know that you dream every night. Your brain does a wipe process as you're waking up so that you don't get confused with the daily happenings. Sometimes it isn't able to because we wake up suddenly. It's not some big secret. This information has been out for years.

It would be interesting to have an alternate world/life. but lets face it we are stuck here and now. Our dreams are not a full life . They are a fraction of reality and wishful thinking for the most part.

I hope it isnt true ... because I have some pretty weird dreams o.O

I die a lot in dreams, so i hope it's not a dream world! Also my dreams tend to involve vampires, and i'm obsessed with them. So i just think it's my subconscious.

your dreams are what you make of them

for some they are insight to our own psyche

to others they are merely memories and thougths randomly mixed up in a sort of strange pantomine

Reality is the common perception, a theme from Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (sorry, no underlining here!). Even if this reality was happening in our heads, I believe it would still be real and not a "dream". However, I do believe that our dreams are our reality for that brief bit of time. They're not fake or shadows but experiences that have the power to define us and change us for at least that moment.
I remember a dream i had when I was 10. I was in a McDonald's play pen - the type with all the plastic tubing you can crawl through- with my sister. She was ahead of me, crawling along to the area where I knew the slide was.
Unlike today's pens, there were clear plastic flaps dividing each separate "room". I followed my golden-haired sister to the room with the slide but stayed outside the flap, watching her as she approached the slide. Suddenly a dark, oozing, "seaweed" man jumped from the mouth of the slide and grabbed her. I was frozen in terror as the man spat in her eyes as she screamed for help. I tentatively raised the flap, hoping she would come towards me and make a run for it. I was too scared to go help her. She was devoured and I woke up.
This was a dream created by my own insecurities. i was afraid that I would not be strong enough to defend my family if the time ever came and my subconscious latched onto that fear. Although it was a dream, a reality experienced only by me, I was forever changed by it because the dream showed me the risk I take by being indecisive. Now I don't hesitate when my family needs something. I'm happy I didn't have to learn that lesson in "real life".
On the other hand, I don't know what to make of this. My mom, sister, and I have all dreamed of the world ending in the exact same way. Purple and red or orange arcs of light shoot through sickly yellow clouds and obliterate everything in their path. They remind us of solar flares and there is never any water in sight.
Could be that we all watched the same movie or saw the same storm clouds although I think I would remember that. I agree with the previous posters in this one case- dreams are what you make of them.

I never thought of that. Normally with my dreams they warn me on things. Like I knew I was pregnant bc I dreamed it n then I found out that I was actually pregnant. Also If i am real close to someone I know a year before something going to happen but idk what.

The first and most famous dream theorist of the modern era, Sigmund Freud, said that the function of dreams was to preserve sleep, but that theory from the year 1900 is contradicted by the fact that dreams happen very regularly at least five or six times per night in an active stage of sleep called REM sleep (after the rapid eye movements that are part of it, along with many other neurological and physiological changes). In other words, dreams don't just happen as we are about to wake up due to hunger pangs, sexual urges, or the need to go to the bathroom, as Freud thought way back when, before REM sleep was discovered in 1953.

The other famous dream theorist of the modern era, Carl Jung, an early follower of Freud who broke away to develop a very different theory, claimed that the function of dreams is to compensate for those parts of the psyche (total personality) that are underdeveloped in waking life, but Calvin Hall's studies of two-week dream series from students and longer dream journals from adults of all ages strongly suggest that dream content is continuous with waking thought and behavior. That is, if we are outgoing and active in our waking life, and not very introspective and reflective, then so too in our dream life, which contradicts Jung's view.

Still other dream theorists say that dreams have a problem-solving function. Dreams supposedly deal with problems we can't solve in waking life and offer solutions. But a variety of systematic studies find precious little support for this view. However, this is one of those places where we have developed "uses" for our dreams as part of our cultural lore. Looking at them in the light of waking day, and believing that they may be full of insight, we may sometimes come up with new ideas or insights while studying them. That is, we have invented a "use" for dreams, but that doesn't mean that problem solving is a psychological function of dreams built into us over evolutionary time.

I used to say that I lived two different lives, my real waking life and my dream life. Simply because I dream so vividly and almost always remember my dreams.

Unfortunately a very common theme in my dreams is being chased. In fact I just had a chasing dream last night. I'm always in a house, realize someone sinister is in the house, and run away to a different house, only to find that the man followed me. I'm never killed in these dreams, but I know that I'm running BECAUSE I'll be killed.

It's always a man I'm running from. Last night's dream was different than usual because I was face to face with the man. I tried to convince him I was a friend, but was given a lobotomy and made to be this person's like, slave of sorts. I remember saying, I only like what you like, because I was afraid I'd be killed if I tried to rebel.

Weeeird.

I'll tell you a little something about me and it is personal I have severe and I do mean severe nightmares have for years sometimes they repeat sometimes once and never again mostly I don't remember them I sought out therapy my therapist and I entered into ''Lucid Dreaming'' you have probably heard of it if ya have not look it up if you want it is far too taxing on me personaly to get that deep into it. also I have a dream diary to help me remember my mares if you will what you do is keep it on yr night stand its just an empty journal and the moment you wake up right down yr dream or dreams to go w it i have a dream book it explains what the different things you see and hear in yr dreams may mean my worst one ever and still to this day is a repeat dream in it im being chased picture wrong turn yes that scary that real ive woken w cuts and bruises which i had obviously given to my self while flailing around in my sleep or had i ? I still dont know but I am ever on the path to finding out peace be w you

I had a dream last night that I crashed into a van. So, I will be driving in a few going to work, and for sure, I will be super careful. Dreams are unexplained behavior of the mind. But, also can be a look into the future.

dreams are the fantasies or horrors of ones own mind. dream land or such places that we think we go but in reality it is just the doors of our own mind and our own wishes and expeirences that gives us our fantasies of the slumbering mind.

That's why I sleep for 12 hours. There's a whole life that I'm living on the other side. However, I believe that I'm someone each time, which is why each dream is different.

Dreams are very interesting, the best dreams are the ones you feel you are in control of. Anything goes in the dreamworld and thus it makes a good break from the dreary reality.

my dreams are mostly irritating - they like to remind me of the stupid things i have done (like my ex) as if my brain would ever think about going back to that life -

other than that i can see where dreams can be window to the sub-conscience as well as a door to a some where else

I enjoy my dreams, I remember most of them and like them. A few have even come true. How all of this ties into our everyday lives im still not sure. I do believe dreams can hold answers even if your seemingly giving them to yourself.

I often force myself back into my dreams, no matter if they a good or bad. And right after I wake, they are so vivid. Then as I push myself back into reality they slip away. I also know that my number one nightmare is when I am helpless and cannot fight. It's like when I turn around to punch or kick everything is weak and soft. I also cannot scream, in a night mare or in real life.

My mom is a nurse and says dreams are the result of our subcontious. she says that since I am the number one thing in her life when she does dream (cough, cough, nightmares) they always involve me.

She is also a nurse and told me about how humans have an autonomic, parasympathetic, and a sympathetic nervous system and this is why humans dream and also have to go through the process of waking. As opposed to animals that only have an autonomic nervous system.

Your life it what you think it is.. plain and simple.. I tend to thing we live a brutal reality and we then spend our life dreaming of what we want and then getting trapped in those dreams and then setting ourselves up for disappointment ..

However our dreams in our sleeping state are telling us things that we need to know in our waking state and they are usually never exactly what we dream about but rather than the symbolic meaning of each thing we see

The dreams I find amusing are the ones that suck you back in when you are trying to wake up, normally when falling back to sleep you may dream something differently but I usually fall back into the same ones though certain things have been skipped as a few seconds of being awake is like hours away in the dream "world", so I am not usually in the same spot in the dream when I re-enter it or if I am, the area around me is different somehow.

have you ever jumped when you were asleep? That is when your astral body is catching up to your sleeping body. I astral project a lot but do not always remember. I always keep a notebook with me so I can write down what I remember before I forget it.

Perhaps dreams are a taste of what physical death is like... Our day to day conscious mind is subdued while our subconscious mind has free reign. Just a thought...

"have you ever jumped when you were asleep? That is when your astral body is catching up to your sleeping body. I astral project a lot but do not always remember. I always keep a notebook with me so I can write down what I remember before I forget it."

Actually that usually means you're dreaming of falling and just before hitting the ground you jump in your sleep. Some people believe if you do not wake up before you hit the ground, you die.

our dreams are part of what our sub conscious wants for us what we are selves don't no or what we invasion in our life for our us or some one else

I think when we dream we are escaping the real world.
In our dreams we can be who ever we want to be ,in our dreams their are no limits.I found that when I think about something just before I fall asleep I will dream of it and sometimes I have nightmares as I thought about something bad.

Has anyone else tried this?

Dreams try to teach us things. If we go to bed and sleep on a problem (sleep on it), often we are better able to resolve the problem the next day. Scientific studies have been done on this...

Dreams are a way to work through problems or issues

Some dreams show us a potential future outcome

Sometimes dreams are invaded by others, creatures, demonic creatures (scubas, incubus, or cambions) etc.

Or dreams can be accessed by others who have the gift, this might answer the questions of dream worlds entering others dream state, and if there is no boundaries of range who know what dreams worlds you will enter.......

i sometimes have dreams which later come true.

i offten dream of flying, not in a plane...
and i also wonder if we are dreaming right now, and one day we will wake up....

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