Meaning of dreams - what do you think it means?

[A Former User]

There Is no difference between dream and reality because they are both products of the infinite consciousness, everything you see and believe is a waking dream

[pari1]

I think dream is thinking beyond your imagination. One has to break the ice for dreaming. Dream is reason of your happiness and life.

[asekfhksajhgla]

@Wolfie_11
The fact that you aren't too conscious all the way throughout the dream might suggest that during REM, the subconscious mind is just running by itself - making whatever connections it can whether or not real (conscious mind isn't too prevalent - no strong judgement and rather disinhibited) - ultimately what you naturally think about events

So if in your dream, you are hanging with your current friends in a cafe you've been going for years by yourself, your mind won't perceive it as weird or off (habitual activities wear onto subconscious well). So if you take them to the cafe one day, you might feel deja vu

The subconscious mind thinks before the conscious mind but its strength is what determines 'control' so to speak. In dreams, the conscious mind is weakened - in reality for me, not too different lel.

And how can I wrestle the subconscious mind?

NOTE* The drug pretty much blocks a receptor that things like THC (active ingredient for psychedelics) act upon and those seem to alter dreams - either stop them or create retarded ones - so I believe I'm isolating the dream experience in a sense as nothings influencing it.

[asekfhksajhgla]

@Rayse
Good point - In my dream, I remember nothing about so called 'reality' e.g. I'd be at my highschool and right next to it would be all the skateparks that are supposed to be hours away from each other.
And in reality, you get to remember nothing much about the experience you had in your dream.

But I gotta say reality is an external feature perceived by your consciousness hence independent from your mind. so no. Reality and dreams are different - I can't just think about Kirby hence spawn it in reality unlike in my dreams where it just happens and its completely normal (went off road motorcycling with Kirby!!!)

[asekfhksajhgla]

@pari1
But imagination is a quality of the human mind. Dreaming just sets it free without boundary of the judgmental ego- a part of human consciousness.
And what about bad dreams? - I started a bushfire in my dream and got caught smoking cigarette in my dream yesterday (I don't smoke)

[A Former User]

@briankaranja well I think that the reason we can't just spawn whatever we want is because we have convinced ourselves that it's impossible whereas in a sleeping dream it feels natural and not at all out of place, certain limiting mental paradigms must be set aside for it happen while awake I believe...because illusion and reality are actually one.I think the Multiverse is just an infinite Mind imagining itself into being, and all "matter" arises from the thoughts of this Metamind, and this "matter" is infinitely divisible which means it is of the same empty essence as everything. So that life and death, awake or dreaming, future or past are all One.

[asekfhksajhgla]

@IM-NOT-ORNY said in Meaning of dreams - what do you think it means?:

There are two kinda dreams,
One you see when you’re sleeping
And the other when you’re awake.

you mean lucid dreaming- or is it simply just imagining at night right before going into REM sleep. - there is also a sleep where you are completely knocked out - like unconscious dead knocked out

[asekfhksajhgla]

@Rayse
so my limiting mental paradigms are the only stopping factors of spawning Kirby in reality. So people with messed brains can spawn things - hallucinations. Cool!
Ok so everything is derived from the metamind- making all extrinsic qualities of reality actually intrinsic as they are all one. So the Multiverse in it self is actually a singular presence?
What makes you think that everything is all the same if they are only just derived from the same thing?

[A Former User]

@briankaranja yeah the multiverse is an infinite Mind which contains an infinite number of finities which are infinitely divisible.

[asekfhksajhgla]

@Rayse bit like pi

[asekfhksajhgla]

@IM-NOT-SLEEPY
Yeah being too ｈｏｒｎｙ causes insomnia at times

[Wolfie_11]

@briankaranja
Tbh the drugs, the subconscious, your personal experiences and your state of mind- all of ‘em are influencing your dreams. Yes you might be isolating them as well, just like you mentioned.

Also, there are a few good pointers in Joseph Murphy’s book, “The Power of your Subconscious Mind” which might be handy in wrestling control over your subsconscious (more like how to use your subconscious effectively). Its quite deep and technical book in which you might lose interest after a while, but as I said, some pointers are good.

“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.”

[Alte]

Dreams have no meaning. Your brain is just trying to make sense out of those thoughts or whatever. But i dont complain.. Mine have been pretty nice lately. Also, well.. The reality had to be first since you cant dream about something you have never seen before.

[A Former User]

@Alte
Then explain to me and to everyone else how i sometimes manage to see a glimpse of something that will happen in later time.
As much as i hate my dreams for being senseless most of the time, they can predict the future for me.
Not so meaningless now, are they?

[Alte]

@Karina-Kara All you need is a hug dear. A big big hug and a warmth of another heart.

[A Former User]

@Alte
. . .

[asekfhksajhgla]

@Alte
chill lol
gotta agree that reality comes first

[Alte]

@briankaranja Did I already offend you? xD

[A Former User]

@Karina-Kara What you think of on a regular basis affects your dreams. If you engage your brain in nice thoughts, you will have better dreams ^^

[A Former User]

@Karina-Kara
So i was asleep one morning and my parents were getting ready for the day. I dreamt up that I'm hearing the news about a terrorist attack in one part of India and the death count was 20 something. The other news (in my dream) was about something having happened in Germany and France (i don't recall exactly).
So when i woke up i read the newspaper to find out that indeed there had been an attack with like 22 casualties and the two countries had been hit by floods.
I asked my parents if they had read the news aloud or if there was any other way i may have come to know of the news. Turned out they didn't even know the news before my telling them. And trust me there was no other way i could have heard it or know about it.
So yea idk how dreams work and how my experience can be explained but good story right? xD