Do dreams mean something?

[Speedball]

Dreams are supposed to be tellin you somethin about yourself

I like Jenna Elfman and wanna get mad drunk...t:

 

[Frico]

I like Jenna Elfman and wanna get mad drunk...t:

 

[Kritish]

SD, his theory runs that

1) random neural images are fired during sleep;

2) the mind is, essentially, "a machine that creates meaning", and dreams form from the organ's attempt to make sense of randomly fired information without its waking dominant function, thus the "chaotic order" of dreams


So both your mentionings come from Hobson, or so I guessed.

Bull ****, you like the idea of dreams having a meaning.

 

[Honey Vibe]

Bull ****, you like the idea of dreams having a meaning.

You wanna take me on?

(Also, you completely missed the point that Hobson argues: all dream interpretation, from Freud to Garfield, is shamanism. He claims to have proven dreams have no meaning through his theory )

 

[Kritish]

You wanna take me on?

There's been no unbiased evidence to conclude that dreams have any meaning what so ever.

 

[Sun_Down]

SD, his theory runs that

1) random neural images are fired during sleep;

2) the mind is, essentially, "a machine that creates meaning", and dreams form from the organ's attempt to make sense of randomly fired information without its waking dominant function, thus the "chaotic order" of dreams


So both your mentionings come from Hobson, or so I guessed.

Interesting, I'll have to look at that stuff again, I didn't know it had been disproven. What's the prevalent theory now? Surely it can't be Freud.

 

[Honey Vibe]

What's the prevalent theory now? Surely it can't be Freud.

Against Jung's theory of primitive symbols, Freud's wish-fulfillment theory is rather unsatisfactory. I believe most theories at work today are based on Jung, but it's difficult to say which is prevalent. All fall short because they are based on the theorist's native field, giving it blindspots in other disciplines: Hobson and Kaplan, for example, have neuroscience backgrounds and their theories on dreaming come from that alone. Patricia Garfield is a spiritualist, who has surprisingly adept methods to decipher dreams but no academia. Freud and Jung are psychologists, but dream psychology is just one corner of the topic Dreaming.

I appreciate the efforts of some, like Kelly Bulkeley, to unite anthropological, spiritual, psychological, and neurological data about dreams, to the appreciation of the subject's complexity.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I wish my dreams meant something.

 

[Diamondhead]

Dreams means something actually
But you've got to learn how to decode them
It’s a unique language according to your intelligence and brain wave
It might be a way that some creatures of the “spirit world” are trying to communicate or to extract information from you
Or try to be part of your life when you are asleep
Whether they are the angels or demons
It’s all part of the great mystery of the universe.

Anyway!
As you become more alert you’ll find out that we are all connected
That every cells of our body is connected or intertwine with every single life on earth and beyond,
The whole universe is actually like a huge super computer that knows exactly what its doing and nothing can escape its awareness.

In order for you to exist or even the most insignificant life
The whole universe has had to agree to your existence; otherwise you would have been terminated, and
This will happen …eventually!

 

[blind_fury]

Just the fact that we experience an interactive world visually while we sleep is pretty trippy.

I think it's proof of intelligent design.

 

[Vilya]

You are actually one of the guys from NBC's HEROES, you need to save a cheerleader

 

[ScottyBBadd]

My dreams of unicorns mean that Kritish loves the cock.

Anythings possible.

 

[November Rain]

Dreams are an insight into other reality versions of yourself...

imagine in one of a infinite amount of universes outthere, an alternate version of yourself has dreampt segments of your life

that's how i rationalise it.

 

[Hades]

In all seriousness, I know that if you dream of being chased, that means that your mind is battling a struggle that you think you can't overcome. If you fly (6 nights ago for me), that means that you are feeling a sense of freedom in your mind or something like that...

Heh, most dreams I ever have are of me being chased by something. Sometimes they're so bad I wake up screaming with my legs moving.

 

[heypapajinx]

i can only hope to believe that my dreams about you mean something Hades.:heart:

 

[Hades]

i can only hope to believe that my dreams about you mean something Hades.:heart:

They mean you're insane

 

[November Rain]

Finding logic in a illogical occurence is by far the biggest amount of time wasting i've ever known.

reading into one's dreams is as pointless as going to a tarot card reader or getting caught up in signs of the zodiac.

live your lives peeps

 

[heypapajinx]

They mean you're insane

do they?
do they really?
*lights a fire and puts on some Kenny G*
come sit here... next to me Hades.
brandy?

 

[Hades]

Finding logic in a illogical occurence is by far the biggest amount of time wasting i've ever known.

reading into one's dreams is as pointless as going to a tarot card reader or getting caught up in signs of the zoiac.

live your lives peeps

But can't you say that about everything in life

being born and then dying seem to be the only thing definite in our lives.

 

[Hades]

do they?
do they really?
*lights a fire and puts on some Kenny G*
come sit here... next to me Hades.
brandy?

Kenny G and brandy
you know me too well

kekeke

 

[heypapajinx]

Kenny G and brandy
you know me too well

kekeke

it's because our souls are kindred.
across all the miles between us we connect.

 

[Hades]

it's because our souls are kindred.
across all the miles between us we connect.

*sniff*
so beautifull

 

[heypapajinx]

*sniff*
so beautifull

i know.
i stole it off a bathroom stall... same place i got your moms phone number.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i've had the same dream every other night for the past four weeks and its f**king creeping me out

 

[Hades]

i know.
i stole it off a bathroom stall... same place i got your moms phone number.

What was her number doing in a bathroom stall

oh wait... is she?...that doesn't suprise.