Do you listen to your dreams

magic_murph

Do you pay any attention to your dreams as in do you think there is a message or a learning to be taken away from bits you actually remember in the morning or is it just a case of oh that was funny/ strange/ disturbing and just move on?

Feisar

I sometimes have to clean up after my dreams, does that count?

valoren

Had a disturbing and upsetting one recently. My mother was recently recalling the time her sister died 20 years ago and the situation in the hospital at the time. Our aunt had suffered a massive heart attack and her death was a shock to everyone. I had also been recently reading about the Nazi T-4 euthanasia programme which murdered thousands

In my dream, our mother was sent by her doctor to a place reminiscent of the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre for examination.

It was a decrepit, sad place. I was there with our father and my two brothers. The staff told us that she was suffering and in pain and would need to effectively be 'put down'. They insisted, seeming very sure this was for the best.

We felt helpless, feeling numb and paralyzed and so none of us spoke up which they took as a go ahead from us. About 20 minutes later they came out of her room and said it was unsuccessful and she was asking for us. We went inside and she looked at us with pure fear and was in a silent state of panic and confusion. She had a look which suggested she didn't want to die but couldn't say it aloud and believed we wanted this to happen. She was clearly not in any pain. They insisted they needed to try again and we could see that they were dipping a sponge into a bucket of floor polish. They try a second attempt as we stand by watching helplessly as they place the sponge to her mouth again, covering her eyes and she eventually goes limp and lies lifeless on the bed. The image of her dead body and the open mouthed expression on her face was reminiscent of footage from the bodies of holocaust victims.

It was a deeply upsetting and disturbing dream. I take from it that even if people in positions of supposed authority tell you something then you should not automatically take their word as being right. Bad things can happen if you blindly accept and go along with supposed experts.

Canis Lupus

They're just dreams. Interesting, funny, weird and sometimes scary but just dreams. Nothing more nothing less.

take everything

Canis Lupus wrote: »

They're just dreams. Interesting, funny, weird and sometimes scary but just dreams. Nothing more nothing less.

Why do people say this.
Why do we have nightmares about traumatic stuff in our daily lives then.

Deebles McBeebles

Your dreams don't tell you anything you don't already know so why would you listen to them?

take everything

take everything wrote: »

Why do people say this.
Why do we have nightmares about traumatic stuff in our daily lives then.

Exactly. Dreams can draw our attention to issues that may need to be addressed in our waking life. Now I don't believe this is the case for all people however recurring dreams can be an indicator that something is going on for us. Also people who have experienced trauma can find their dreams terrifying. Of course there are dreams which are really just snippets of nothing at all. Bits and pieces of the day muddled with images from our subconscious. The mind is an amazing thing.

jester77

I never remember dreams Or maybe I never have any

Canis Lupus

take everything wrote: »

Why do people say this.
Why do we have nightmares about traumatic stuff in our daily lives then.

F8ck should I know but trying to put some deeper meaning into what goes on in our heads when we're out cold asleep is dumb and is up there with astrology and all that guff.

magic_murph

Well if dreams help you process information received during the day surely after that processing exercise you understand the content better therefore you know new information and better equipped to deal with it.

Like the time I was galloping down a wind swept beach on the back of a unicorn while drinking a nice glass of Merlot and suddenly fell off - the next morning I realized I need to work on my balance or I will forever be wasting Merlot.

Tazium

Mine occasionally scare the bejebus outta me but other times are just simply a place I don't want to wake up from. Can't count the number of times I've woken up and wished to go back to the dream.

fryup

Tazium wrote: »

Can't count the number of times I've woken up and wished to go back to the dream.

Can't count the number of times I've woken up and been relived that it was a dream phew

Apiarist

magic_murph wrote: »

Do you pay any attention to your dreams as in do you think there is a message...

Dreams could be messages from your unconscious mind. They provide another interpretation of things that you have experienced. I love my dreams! To catch a dream though, I need to lie quietly for 10 minutes after waking up to remember what was happening in the dream, and that is not always possible.

Apiarist

fryup wrote: »

Can't count the number of times I've woken up and been relived that it was a dream phew

You can program your dreams to an extent. Try to remember the previous dream and imagine it better before going to sleep.