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posted January 30, 2010 05:34 PM         

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....and if so, why?

I don't, and the reason is because we are surrounded by external stimuli.
Even if we barely perceive it, it's still there...everything from the picture on your cereal box to what song was playing in the market when you ran in to grab something for dinner.

Here is an example...

My youngest daughter wanted me to analyze her dream, she dreamt:

That she was in a video game with Hannah Montana, and they had to keep running and ducking from flying objects. At the end, when the video game was over, Jay and Silent Bob were waitng for them.

Well, that day she wore a Hannah Montana t-shirt to school. when she came home, she played video games with her brother for an hour before dinner, and during that time, her older sister was in my bedroom watching a video of Jay and Silent Bob.

She was expecting more from me, but what could I say, it was right there.

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posted January 30, 2010 05:50 PM         

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hi gypseewind,

i do not think every dream means something. like last night i dreamt that i was late to go somewhere and i missed out on an event. it felt really real, but i know it means nothing (as in it's some foreshadowing of something) because i had been briefly been thinking about how i'm gonna be so tired to make it to this event. so of course i dreamed that i slept in and missed it. those kinds of dreams mean nothing to me. it's when i haven't been thinking about something at all and then i have a dream about it and then something happens in real life that connects to the dream that makes me feel scared that the dream meant something.

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posted January 31, 2010 08:29 AM         

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I think a lot of dreams just reflect our worries and a general state of mind. Like when i feel vulnerable and threatened by something and dream of being naked in a public place or loosing my teeth. Yuk.

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posted January 31, 2010 04:00 PM         

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GRRRR! I hate loosing my teeth dreams!!!

If you go through some old threads from back in the summer, you can find a discussion on losing teeth dreams. We had quite diverse opinions on that subject.

S&S;
Whenever I am worried about being late for something, I don't sleep at all! But, you are right, that would seem to be the kind of thing to trigger anxiety dreams.

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posted February 13, 2010 03:29 PM         

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I have noticed that outside stimuli can affect both dreams and past life memories.
It can trigger false meanings/memories (seeming at first to be of both current or past incarnations) or trigger actual memories or reveal things deep within us.
Being able to discern betwixt meaningful/actual and outside induced delusion is not always easy to ascertain.
In the case of your daughter's dream...it appears it is as you surmise; outside influenced induced.
Likes and dislikes, fears, and dogmatic belief, preconceptions, can all affect how information comes through in dreams.
That is one reason I am not fond of dream interpretation books.
For example, things are often listed as bad, but it is based on opinion and or old superstitions.
Like the number 13, or darkness, or black cats, and so forth. Even beautiful things may not be seen as good by all.
Too many stereotypes of dream imagery in most books.

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posted February 14, 2010 03:11 PM         

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Yes, Lexx, you are correct. I've always wondered, and you may know, who writes those books? I mean, some guy was sitting under a tree a thousand years ago, and fell asleep, he dreamt of a black cat, and when he awoke, he was stung by a bee, and he said, "It was the black cat!!! Black cats are bad!! I must write this down!"

I'm joking, because I know black cats are associated with witches, but you get my drift. Symbology is a fascinating subject.

I've always been partial to Freud myself. But, then again, I am a bit of a perv.

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posted February 18, 2010 02:25 PM         

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Recently I have very lively dreams of old friends who became enemies a long time ago, coming and talking to me. I have not seen them in years and don't bear a grudge at all. They tell me my ex husband died, but he is very much alive. Gyps, can you see any meaning to that?

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posted February 18, 2010 04:57 PM         

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Your dream seems to indicate renewal to me. You said you have no grudge, and so, I believe you are completing a cycle concerning the past.
Death can be re-birth, starting over. Your ex-husband can signify important relationships, so I think that you will find an important relationship in your life will have new vitality.
(not saying HIM personally, just saying he is a dream "stand-in" for an important person in your current life.)
I sense with the friends, you will have good times and comraderie to come, Kiss, I think some big changes are in store for you, but, you know I've already told you that.
Like Mystique once told me, and now I sense the same thing for you, you have a surprise or more than one in store for you. Good surprises. This is actually a good dream. And the vividness points out the fact that IT wants to be seen and remembered.

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posted February 18, 2010 06:33 PM         

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Where is my post?

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posted February 18, 2010 06:48 PM         

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I don't think mine do. Often they're pretty random.

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posted February 19, 2010 02:50 AM         

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Star, hit refresh if you don't see it. If STILL don't see it, that is weird cuz it's there, and I answered you.

I know what you mean AG, often I can pick apart my dreams to find something in each part of it, that has to do with external stimuli. Some might say, EVEN that means something, but, I don't know. The really important ones really stick out, and you tend to remember them for a long time.

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posted February 20, 2010 08:35 AM         

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Thanx, Gyps. I get worried when I hear the word "surprise". I get suspicious!!! LOL
Had another of those dreams last night, again, people came from the past, even more of them. I have not seen them in years and don't want to, but we had shared very intense time THEN. I am the same age in my dreams as I was then, but that's quite logical, I assume.
What do they want from me?

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posted February 21, 2010 07:56 PM         

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I see it like this:

My dreams are another life, for me. What happens in the "dream world" is as significant or insignificant, as my daily actions.

I mean...

In most of my dreams, I am doing everyday activities, except that they are in a world unlike this one, as if I have gone to another "dimension". I am usually spending time with friends, having a laugh and doing these very mundane things, even though they might be surreal because my body and the environment is usually unlike Earth as I know it - plus the natural laws are different in my dreams. So, my dreams are my other life/lives, and just as my doings in this world are random/organized chaos, with probably no meaning but likely with an overall purpose - so is my dream life.

Then there are dreams where it seems like someone hacked the matrix, as if someone came in the dream, acting as if they are part of your dream world, when they are actually from somewhere else. These are the ones that mean something to me, the ones that leave me asking, "what the heck was that?"

Did anythingI said make sense?

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posted February 22, 2010 02:40 AM         

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Yep, I know exactly what you mean unmoved. This is why I like the idea of the Aborigines "Dream Time," where they believe that our dreams are our real life, and our waking life is just a dream.
Sometimes that can be comforting, sometimes, not so much.

But the hacking into thing you were talking about, yes! That is weird isn't it??
Seems as though, in my dream life, I am fully cogzinant and going about my business, as BIZARRE as it may be, and then someone or something is there, and it's out of place, even in that technicolor world that I dream in, and I'll be like, "whoa, what are YOU doing here? You don't "go" here!"

Fascinating stuff, really, I love to sleep just because my dreams are so flippin entertaining! lol.

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posted February 22, 2010 09:06 AM         

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Hi, Unmoved, yes, it makes sense. The matrix indeed. Just sometimes it does not make sense. Why did they come and bothered me if nothing came out of it? Those dreams have stopped now and nothing happened, so what was the fuss about? Why hack into a different dimension for nothing? Sorry, Virgo talk..

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posted February 22, 2010 01:36 PM         

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i think many dreams are just processing our experiences in waking life. but is waking life another dream?

and many dreams really do have something to tell you, often info that will protect you, though since they are processed through our brains they may be coloured by our prejudices and inclinations,,,and of course interpretations are often biassed by our mindset...

and i have had MANY dreams where people i either did not yet know, or hadn't thought about in years, appeared shortly before i ran into them in 3D. but i think only we can really interpret our dreams, as they are OUR dreams ... while others can give us pointers from their perspective ultimately a dream only means what you believe/feel it does.

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posted February 23, 2010 11:29 AM         

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And last night my teeth fell out.. It's getting better ...

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posted February 23, 2010 11:57 AM         

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There you are, why are you not answering email??? Teeth falling out is just anxiety, stop being so anxious. Cause, whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen, and what can we do about that??

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posted February 23, 2010 02:53 PM         

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I've answered! Check your inbox,plum!!! I can't stop being anxious, it's my nature. You would be the same if your teeth were coming out in heaps.UGGGGH.

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posted March 10, 2010 05:55 PM         

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posted March 12, 2010 09:17 PM         

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I think dreams can be very significant for some people and not so much for others. The number 16 and many others brings the gift of precognitive dreams, or sometimes, depending on an individual's spritual development, out of body experiences. My sister, only nine, has had many vivid out of body travels to weeks or months ahead. Some people may just be so caught up in their lives that they don't dream anything significant or can't remember if they do.

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posted March 16, 2010 02:42 AM         

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Your "dreams" are simply the consciousness of your soul. When your body goes to sleep, the soul wakes up and vice versa. You are two different people, none more real than the other compared to the higher realm, you see? Your body mind says "time to wake up and do stuff"..........then your body mind says "okay time to go to bed".Your body mind goes to sleep. Your soul or sleep mind says "time to wake up and do stuff"........then your sleep mind says "okay time to go to bed".Your soul mind goes to sleep. Then Your body mind says, "time to wake up and do stuff"....... The Mind is the intermediary to your body and soul. It connects the two.
The dream world is made of a language that is used by the people in power in this world. Those in control realized that the dream world was just as real as the physical one but the normal person does not know this. THis is why most commercials or anything trying to sell you something is "like a dream" or they use symbols.If you notice, most companies have a strange zodiac symbol. When they are awake they are trying to sell to your soul because they know that the soul will take the message back into that world and digest it. Its strange. Smart people don't talk to you, they talk to your soul, this is how they can get you to do what they want without you realizing it consciously or in this world.

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posted March 16, 2010 07:57 PM         

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"If you notice, most companies have a strange zodiac symbol".
Can you give an example, S? "Selling a dream" sounds interesting.

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posted March 16, 2010 09:18 PM         

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There are so many. They are everywhere. They either use symbols or have zodiac names and or both. Most commercials are dreamlike as opposed to being literal situations. Michael Tsarion goes into great detail about all of them. Check him out.

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