An interesting thing I saw on National Geographic about dreams

[paisley]

I saw on the National Geographic channel a very interesting show in which studies followed the development of fetuses and by monitoring the eye movement of a fetuses in sleep it was discovered that this was the same movement of an adult's eye movement when they are dreaming so it was concluded that even fetuses dream. It was then speculated on what a fetus could dream about. I thought that was really interesting. And, of course, anyone that has ever had a dog knows they dream as well. My dog will go back to a puppyhood yip or she will move her legs like she is running. So I wonder if like water and food, dreams are essential for all higher forms of life.

[Varzandeh]

Hi,
Thank you for your information.Another research done by Stanford uni showed that each person dreams at least 6 dreams each night .And if the dreamer was interfered while dreaming too many times , he will have psychological disorders.

[paisley]

SIX dreams! That is amazing! I wonder how our minds pick which ones to remember? Also, I wonder if each of those 6 dreams are the mind playing out the same scenerio (dream meaning) but in different manners or is it working out the same scenerio like we would work through a choice by considering the positives and negatives and the final dream is our mind's final conclusion and that is the dream we remember? Anyway, I find not only dream language and meaning interesting but also the process behind dreaming to be very interesting.

[mythopoet]

Hi Paisley,

I also believe poets from around the world have spoken of the world dream and the late Joseph Campbell, a remarkable teacher, writer and mythologer suggests this is something eastern spirtual notions affirm. Aliveness itself, Campbell thought, is a dream in which all the dream characters (including you and I) dream, too.

Psychology today supports the insight with one of their own. The ground of conscious reality is buoyed by an unconscious one, the core of which is poetic, aka a language speaking to us in image-ideas shaping our own sense for the "real". What is real is so through the metaphor that shapes it. Reality is an as-statement making here what is here and also what isn't. That, also, is what dreaming "knows" and "speaks".

Warm wishes,
mythopoet

[vee]

Six dreams threw me. Wow. I only remember one dream usually. Does anybody actually remember more than one a night? Also does anybody ever remember all six?
Thanks
Vee

[paisley]

Vee, I have remembered 2 and 3 dreams in one night on various occassions without having any interruption of sleep. However, my dreams tend to be long and detailed so it was too overwhelming to me to try and sort out each one and see how they corrolated. Moreover, I did not know enough about dreams at that time to sort them out and I felt it would be too burdensome to post them on a board like this so I just let them go. However, now I wish I had recorded them to see if they were all the same message just being played out in a different manner.

[Varzandeh]

I want to tell you a reason to know that 5 senses can't understand anything except by the soul,
Have you dreamt you were eating and drinking and had pleasure of that. He said yes. I said: have you dreamt laughing and crying, and strolling in the cities that haven't seen yet but you know the specialties. He said: yes dreamt very much. I said: Have you ever dreamt about your dead brother or father and know them like they are alive.
He said: yes too many times. I said: tell me which sense has received such things to see the dead and talking to them or crying and laughing. He said: I can’t say which one. Because the body is slept like a dead. I said: tell me when you wake up don’t you remember and report to the friends exactly, He said; yes and sometimes I see that before night in real life. I said; which sense keeps it to remember the dream after waking. He said; there is no way for sense. I said then you should know because senses are vein here that is the soul that God has put wisdom in it and it is a reason. He said; what I dream is like mirage one thinks it is water but when arrive at there is nothing. I said; how do you say it is like mirage and you ate sweets and pickles and were happy and sad he said; because what I dream when I arrive at it is nothing. I said: have you ever had sex in the dream and your hearts beat, have you ever had wet dream about a woman or man. You know him or don’t know He said many times said had you orgasm and when you woke up you were wet then this is not mirage.
He said: dreaming orgasm is just like the real life .I said this is my reason that soul. Knows everything although senses are dead and can’t see or hear of course you shouldn’t deny that soul in addition of the senses knowledge recognition in the waking life and after vanishing the senses has sex with them then it recognizes the things after going senses and now you understand that the itself is guiding the senses and is their governor and none of the senses can’t do anything without soul; if the soul goes a head body wasn’t get back and if soul gets back the body won’t go ahead with the soul the happiness comes and with it the ache is received if a sense is damaged the soul is remained but if the soul is damaged senses can work properly.

[vee]

Hi Paisley,
It's me Vee again. Have you been keeping a journal now?
Hope so, maybe it will happen again.
Talk to you later
Vee

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

Hi Paisley

It is interesting what you say. Dreaming is eseential for us. Well maybe thats not strictly accurate. Its sleep that is definitely esential. WE store information in short term memory banks during the daytimer. Then at nighttime to process these through the hippocampus. This transfers all short term memories to long term memory.

The theory goes like this. If we had brains which could process through new events immediately then we would need a far bigger brain. So for efficiency we store information in short term memory. Lower species need absolutely huge brains becaUSE THEY DO NOT DO THIS

preciusely what we dream about is a matter of pure speculation. I am not sure what a feotus would dream about. What soprts of things would dominate a feotoes mind... learning how to kick and flexc muscles perhaps. We dream about things that we learn. We also dream about basic emotions. So basic moods and moods linked to the mother maybe important.

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Dreams are not about the facts about our lives they are rather about the reality of our feelings. Thats why many dreams are about yesterday. There is a tendency to see dreams as premonitions and the terrible things happening as omens for the future. yet such dreams can often be about the reality of our own feelings. We feel as if we are being chased by dogs. We feel as if we are on top of a skyscraper and about to fall to the ground. So such dreams are often about mundane and simple situations that at the time we exxagerate in our minds. So a skyscraper dream could simply link to some situation where you had your confidence tested.

To help you understand the process of dreams try reading these pages

A dream dictionary that explores the variety of meanings in a dream symbol
Dream symbolism - How to use dream symbols
Dream symbolism and dream dictionary interpretation - How to interpret dreams
Dream interpreting - the police and security forces and their symbolic meaning

[Jennings]

Do foetuses dream; very doubtful. Dreaming is probably a symbiotic symptom of another basic and primitive instinct connected to the need of the body to rest so what was being observed was more likely the resting movement of the foetus. When scientists speculate the lay-person's guess is as equally as good as theirs. Here is another consideration; dreaming also occurs in the waking state; think about it.