Dream decoding
It's been a question that's been asked throughout the ages. What do dreams mean? Do they mean anything? Is that one question or two? They're both sides of the coin in my opinion, and you can argue it's tails if it comes up heads if you want 'cos no ones given me a solid, stone cold answer.
Personnally, I'm going with the theory that dreams are the subconcious mind organising your thoughts into something it thinks we can understand. Sure the human mind can interpret pictures better than most things (unless your blind of course, although you've got a better chance if you weren't born blind. But that's not the point), but it would be nice to have some sort of super secret spy key to figure it all out, like those secret code dials everyone used to have.
There are books out there, like dream thesaurus's, and the one I've tried was very good, but who's to say it was anywhere near accurate? If this theory was remotely true, why not make dreams more straightforward so we can all follow the plot?
Because of this I've begun a theory of my own. Maybe dreams are a random collection of images that are there just to keep the mind occupied. Of course that brings up other questions, like why don't we all dream every night? Maybe it's because sometimes are lives are too hectic and our minds are just glad of the rest at the end of the day.
Another thing. Why do we forget our dreams so quickly. A few minutes after waking up these memories fade (at least the do for me). Maybe it's because they aren't real memories. They have no anchor in the physical world, and as such it's easy to forget a confusing metaphor that's telling you you need to eat more fruit through the medium of dancing halloween masks deficating on a nativity scene....or whatever.
Do crazy people have sane dreams? If not then isn't that a bit weird? Maybe this shared dreamstate insanity is what binds us all.
To be honest, I rarely ever dream anymore. I guess that makes each time I do a bit special....but it doesn't help me make any more sense of them. I wonder what that says about me?
Personnally, I'm going with the theory that dreams are the subconcious mind organising your thoughts into something it thinks we can understand. Sure the human mind can interpret pictures better than most things (unless your blind of course, although you've got a better chance if you weren't born blind. But that's not the point), but it would be nice to have some sort of super secret spy key to figure it all out, like those secret code dials everyone used to have.
There are books out there, like dream thesaurus's, and the one I've tried was very good, but who's to say it was anywhere near accurate? If this theory was remotely true, why not make dreams more straightforward so we can all follow the plot?
Because of this I've begun a theory of my own. Maybe dreams are a random collection of images that are there just to keep the mind occupied. Of course that brings up other questions, like why don't we all dream every night? Maybe it's because sometimes are lives are too hectic and our minds are just glad of the rest at the end of the day.
Another thing. Why do we forget our dreams so quickly. A few minutes after waking up these memories fade (at least the do for me). Maybe it's because they aren't real memories. They have no anchor in the physical world, and as such it's easy to forget a confusing metaphor that's telling you you need to eat more fruit through the medium of dancing halloween masks deficating on a nativity scene....or whatever.
Do crazy people have sane dreams? If not then isn't that a bit weird? Maybe this shared dreamstate insanity is what binds us all.
To be honest, I rarely ever dream anymore. I guess that makes each time I do a bit special....but it doesn't help me make any more sense of them. I wonder what that says about me?
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