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Dreams
Dec 6, 2011 21:17:24 GMT
Post by Ambrose Yarwood on Dec 6, 2011 21:17:24 GMT
Do our dreams have meaning? Are they the subconscious telling us something, or are they nothing more than random images and ideas generated by the subconscious? What purpose do dreams serve?
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Dreams
Dec 6, 2011 21:23:24 GMT
Post by ksen on Dec 6, 2011 21:23:24 GMT
I went to bed the other night and in her sleep my wife said, '"The Dreammaster is here."
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Beau
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Dreams
Dec 6, 2011 21:28:16 GMT
Post by Beau on Dec 6, 2011 21:28:16 GMT
Must they serve a purpose? They could possibly simply be a result of our brain never switching off. In fact, our brain becomes more active while we sleep. Some believe that they may act as a kind of filing system, remembering the important things that happened during the day and retaining it, while disregarding the rest.
As for our dreams having meaning, I don't subscribe to the notion that they have a universal meaning. As the part of our brain that is responsible for logic is not active while we dream, they can make very little sense, and I tend to think that they can give us some insight into our subconscious and I find that fascinating.
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Dreams
Dec 16, 2011 0:47:52 GMT
Post by Magilla on Dec 16, 2011 0:47:52 GMT
Maybe dreams have a purpose, and maybe not. But it seems to me that at the least, they must be the outcome of a purposive function in the brain. The universality of dreaming would indicate that this is so. For there to be such a significant thing going on, and it having no purposive association seems unlikely.
Medical experts in sleep will tell you not only that dreams are part of a purposive system, but what that purpose most probably is.
As for the meaning of dreams, I think that there are some more widely applicable elements, and some which are idiosyncratic. On this basis, a person trying to find the meaning of a dream they've had by reading the answer in a book, or getting someone to tell them what it means, is like trying to walk with one leg tied to a large stone - it's not ideal. You might get somewhere, but you need to look for the idiosyncrasies which are implicit in the dream.
The more widely applicable elements would be those which are cultural - things like popularly recognised symbols, fairy tales, movies, idioms, proverbs etc. etc. etc.
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Bayes
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Dreams
Dec 16, 2011 5:16:25 GMT
Post by Bayes on Dec 16, 2011 5:16:25 GMT
We know that without dreams we would die. That has been tested.
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Dreams
Dec 20, 2011 1:29:23 GMT
Post by Worldquest on Dec 20, 2011 1:29:23 GMT
Do our dreams have meaning? Are they the subconscious telling us something, or are they nothing more than random images and ideas generated by the subconscious? What purpose do dreams serve? In my view dreams are real. Our consciousness begins to be aware of and observe a different reality to the everyday waking one.
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