What, exactly, are dreams and why do they even exist. According to you?

[Clear]

I think this is the main thing about being human. Really think about it. It proves the mind believes what it sees, implicitly. Then it "rises" to higher consciousness and the previous state seems so foolish. What if thats the hint and the nursery rhyme literally told you the truth about this world? Anyway, what do you think about them both personal views and researched perspective?

 

[Ohana]

Thats a really interesting topic to discuss. I think dreams in my expierence can be a lot of things. Sometimes in my dreams it feels like it allows for more contact woth an "other"? Maybe so one idea I have for dreams is to look at them as a shared space that everyone is in when dreaming but are far away like islands for each person.

I could see there being dream entities that know how to navigate those islands so can visit people. Thats just my guess though could be wrong. I think I might have been visited by something that was like a shadow but moved like a fog but more solid if that makes sense? Anyways it was really interesting but I don't know if it was just my imagination or not.

One time I heard from two people that were really close friends that they saw each other in a dream. It was super weird so maybe sharing dreams is possible? It was super weird.

I think dreams also talk about your own wants or "dreams" I think. There's a reason that dream can also mean an aspiration you have in life. An example being someone's dream to win the Olympics or someone's dream to become famous.

I remember when I got hungry sometimes I would dream about eating a lot of food. Or when I wanted to see friends again I would dream about seeing them. So I think dreams can also reveal a lot about your own personal psyche and what you personally want at that moment. Not always though since nightmares also exist.

Nightmares are interesting because sometimes I have a nightmare then brush it off. The nightmare doesn't affect me much since I can telling by expierencing the dream its mainly caused by stress. Other times a nightmare can poke at a insecurity and affect for me the rest of day. I remember getting such bad nightmares as a kid.

Then theres the deja vu dream where it feels like you expierenced this before because a lot of dreams are just a rehashing of your memories. Sometimes dream memories can match up ones memories a person hasn't expierence yet. I think this is because time is weird and our expierence of time is also weird. I notice most of these dreams are only a at most a few months in advance so even even we perceive to expierence time linearly people might actually expierence time in chunks. So our brain actually processes time given chunks of it give or take a couple months.

When I also expierence those types of deja vu dreams its kind of painful like I'm rushing through processing something I shouldn't rush through. Its like getting fIickded by an eIastic rubber band. Really weird.

Thats a lot but I just have a lot of thoughts on dreams and what I think about them.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I think that dreams are your sleeping brain wandering around the multiverse and trying to interpret what it sees from its limited perspective.

 

[dcwilson]

I think this is the main thing about being human. Really think about it. It proves the mind believes what it sees, implicitly. Then it "rises" to higher consciousness and the previous state seems so foolish. What if thats the hint and the nursery rhyme literally told you the truth about this world? Anyway, what do you think about them both personal views and researched perspective?

Dreams have a physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions. The physical dimension is the easiest, it tunes up your body, especially your sight and warns you of problems with your health. And whether you have to take a bathroom break. These tend to the dramatic to get your attention.
The mental dimension is garbage collection and sorting through the trivia of the day to decide what events should be remembered, it's also freer that the conscious mind and its barriers are relaxed. Your feelings and emotions are put in symbolic language to visually express your ambitions, hopes and fears - it's your Unconscious expressing itself. Your mental blocks dissolve and the weirdness sets in. You can go places with or without guides, visit realms that are closed to you otherwise, be given magical tools (mine was a medicine bag). You can do things that you never would do in waking life, speak to entities who bring both negative and positive advice. Magick works more directly there. Yes, it is a place. You can fly and do extraordinary things, be visited by authorities like sheriffs and arrested, and talk with relatives and others, and sometimes you have to try and calm some natural events - and run if you don't succeed. Mine was talking to the entity that is Mt. St. Helens. I failed and the eruption took place. So, you "know" things before and as they're happening.

 

[Siddha]

Hy there!

To me, dreams are like a bridge between our daily conscious mind and the deeper layers of our soul or the astral plane. i dont think they are just "brain garbage" or just random neurons firing like science wants us to believe.

Sometimes, a dream is definitely just the brain processing the stress of the day – like a data clean-up. But other times? They feel way too real, way too structured. I'm convinced that during deep sleep, our energetic body travels to other realms or meets with guides. That's why some dreams leave you with a feeling that lasts for days, even if you cant remember everythign that happened.
It's basically a personal playground for the spirit where physical laws don't apply. It's how we reconnect to the bigger picture while the body is recharging.

I personally love dreaming especially astral traveling. Anyone else?
Siddha