Hi, All!

I'm really wondering about this. Some people seem to think that what they dream might have some sort of significant meaning. Others could care less.

To me, dreams, while we sleep, are a review of what might be happening in our lives as well as our minds sorting out the "clutter" of the day.

That's to put it shortly...

I think that our dreams are also influenced by what we've eaten, medications that we might be taking, the time that we go to bed, how much stress we have in our lives, how happy or depressed that we might be, etc.

I don't put much credence into dreams. Although, some of them can seem very real! I did dream once, how to repair something on a piano that I wasn't figuring out how to do in my waking hours! What I dreamt to do worked!

What do you think? Are dreams things that are to be taken seriously or not?

I could ask more, but I think that you catch my "cerebral drift" here! :p

Thanks!

Personally, I don't put much stock in dreams because I know that it is just my sub-conscious writing stories in my head.

Most of my dreams are very vivid and a lot of them deal with things that happen during the day. But, sometimes, I may be lucky enough to have a dream about the past - people that have passed on show up for an "episode" or two.

I don't try to interpret them because I don't believe that they are prophetic. To me, life is what you make it... each step, each decision, each moment is a string in a beautiful quilt that is my life.

Most mornings I wake up and remember my dreams with fondness! :)

Good question!

Hi, HistorianChick!

So, what do you do and how do you feel about a dream that is so vivid and might be a nightmare that frightens you, please?

Some of my dreams are so vivid and can be frightening enough that it's hard to shake them off during the day.

Thanks!

I sure do have frightening dreams every once in a while. What do I do? I guess I don't really know!

I rest in the fact that is was "all just a dream" and keep living. I hug my loved ones, thank my friends for being there, and keep walking on.

Maybe because I'm a writer, but sometimes I'll write them down. For me, things stay in my head until I write them out.

Have you tried that?

Yes, I've tried writing my dreams down. Some of them are fascinating!

I once had one about a person on this site, with whom I've butted heads a few times. I dreamt that she and I were going to walk up to Minneapolis together.

Minneapolis is about five or six hours away from where I live, if you're driving!

I think that the dream had to do something with reconciliation.

Don't really know...

Last night I dreamed that my boss was the owner of an evil carnival. He had a whip, and had really bright blush on and his goatee was forked, so he looked a bit like the devil. He was making me run through a maze of mirrors.

While this could be something where I think my boss is slave-driving me to look at the same things over and over and over, I tend to think that it's really that I'm on a medication that makes my dreams more vivid, and between that, stress at work, and the fact that I'm reading "Something Wicked This Way Comes" has more to do with it than any prophetic vision I might make of it.

I do have one dream, though, that I wonder about. It's not EXACTLY a re-curring dream, but it's about the same people, same place every time. In the dream, I'm a little girl in the 60s in Vancouver, BC. I could describe every room of the house in these dreams, along with the car her/my daddy drives, the bike she rides, and nearby landmarks.

Vancouver is a VERY large town, but I spend about 3 hours there once trying to find this house, because the dream is so real, and so far out of the scope of things I usually dream.

Crazy carnival conducter, huh? Sounds interesting! Do you by any chance watch Heroes?

That dream about when you were a kid: I've had those, too! It's really interesting, the little nudges that our subconscious gives us in dreams. I have often wondered what actually causes dreams!

I remember one dream in which I was going down a scary tunnel (I think it was after going through the Small World ride at Disneyland!) and I was starting to get scared. I remember consciously thinking, "I'm getting scared, I should change the channel!" and, in my dream-y way, I switched channels to a happier dream.

Odd, but awesome! I had to have been, wow, maybe 8?

Nope... I don't really watch TV. "Something Wicked..." is about a scary carnival coming to town and stealing souls, though--I really think that's where I pulled it from.

What's weird about the dream I have about being a little girl... is that I was born in the 70s. This is absolutely NOT my life I dream about. It's no TV show that I can find, and no movie I've heard of.

I've only been to Vancouver, BC, once--when I was 24. Part of the reason I went was because of those dreams.

It's just weird, I don't really try to understand it anymore.