If you dream about someone, does that mean they were thinking about you before they went to sleep?

No. It does not meant that.
Sorry.

Nope, but you can believe that if you want to.

No. That just means that you were thinking about him because you like him. It doesn’t mean anything was going on in his head. Dreams do not connect people’s thoughts. It violates the laws of physics. You cannot create a bond between you and another organic being by sleeping and thinking about said organic being, it just doesn’t work like that.

@Math321 It doesn’t say that in physics XD. But, no; It only means that you are thinking about them.

I had actually read that people typically dream about whatever it was they were thinking about when they fell asleep.

Not sure how official or studied that is… but I can vouch for it to some degree.

There is only one way for you @ilovetuesdays to prove your theory, ask him if he likes you or dreams about you.

@Afos22 The only way information (such as a dream) can travel without some sort of physical medium is using quantum entanglement, and all that is measuring the spin of one particle and then being able to figure the spin of another with that data. You cannot transmit thoughts with it.

1. Thoughts are very complex series of electrical impulses, not particles.
2. Quantum entanglement is unstable. You need lots of equipment to even create one.

It means that you enjoy obsessing about him. You want to surround yourself with thoughts of him day and night. You want to imagine this whole love scene with him, ending with the two of you transcending humanity with the power of your love.

It’s a powerful dream/myth/fantasy and one that is pretty common. Enjoy it, but don’t take it seriously. Not that you will heed my advice. It’s too powerful at your age. It makes you crazy. You don’t think right when under its influence. But try. Just try to enjoy the feelings without taking them too seriously, because when they end, you want to reduce your devastation.

In any case, go talk to the poor guy. Ask him to have a coffee with you, or to see the basketball game or whatever. See what happens.

@Math321 the only way you say?

Do you have any other way?

Computing ability grows stronger every minute my friend. One day we will be able to log in to a sleep internet if you will. And link up thoughts and ideas that way. Or, not even asleep; One could hook up and transfer thoughts/ideas/feelings/sensations.

I said a physical medium. Meaning wires, or wireless communications, or paper and pencil, or something similar.

What you dream of has nothing to do with who thought of you. More likely, you are thinking of him and thus you dream of him.

If you want to think it means he dreams of you, I don’t see any harm in believing that. Sweet dreams :-)

If he was thinking of you it was coincidence. There is no such thing a ESP.

That sounds like an old wives’ tale. More likely you went to sleep thinking of that person. I have been consistenly dreaming about my boss lately, which is pretty freaky. I didn’t even know that I felt that way about him. The freaky part is that he is about 10 to 15 years younger than me, has the cutest little wife that he adores, and has three sons that he lives for. So inappropriate for me to be dreaming about him, but I can’t control that.

@Skaggfacemutt

Well, if the theory that “you dream about what you think about” is true, all you have to do is think about someone/something else before going to sleep at night.

Dreaming is the nightly exercise for the brain. The things you dream about are nothing more than the thoughts in your brain getting re-organized.

Not just thoughts getting organized, but usually the dream you have isn’t really the reason why your dreaming it, I mean sometimes the meaning is way deeper behind what your dreaming IE: your not just dreaming about your boss and his family because you like your boss more than you thought, it could be subconsciously you want to be fulfilled so your imagination just produces what you perceive to be greater than what you currently have.

i heard that what ever you eat last before you sleep also affects what you dream.

You see and hear and touch so many things in a day that you don’t need to remember- periheral stuff. Your brain has to get rid of it and it has to work from things you know.

I think that during the day we can imagine and visualize lots of things, who says if it ever has to stop? How do we not know it couldn’t keep going after your body stops if the brain was preserved. I mean think of all these things the human brain has invented and if you could preserve the brain after death who’s to say it can’t control just whatever body it is attached to. Imagine Island of Dr. Moreau only experimenting with brains! Weird. I’m sure it’s been in some science fiction movie before..real life I’m not so sure about.

@Meego I doubt brains could keep working after being dead, even if preserved. For one, you need just the right chemicals to put with the brain for it to work right. Secondly, you need some way to remove the brain and put it back without damaging it. Thirdly, you need someway to keep the body alive without a brain for a while. Fourth, what if the body rejects the brain, like the body sometimes rejects new body parts that get surgically added?

I know but it goes to show the power of the imagination :)

What I dream about will come true sometimes. Sometimes, my dreaming is just symbolic of how my soul is feeling, other times, my dreams have no reminiscence of my life or me, and lastly sometimes my dreams tell stories of where i am located. I believe that people can connect to you through your dreams, because the soul has no limitations, if you have an open heart and open mind—anything is possible. There are some things in life , that are unexplainable. Okay? some people don’t want to admit to it.

Recently, I dreamt of my grandfather, and I have no spoken to him in…years! and 3 days later, he found my mother on an internet website. One time, my father dreamt of me taking a math test. and I just took one for my college placement.

Never limit your thinking, or you will limit yourself.

@MissesAntonia1771 Far out.

@MissesAntonia1771

While your post was sweet, it’s still wrong.
Your dream stories can be explained.

1st dream: The grandfather dream
Coincidence. There is no way that you can predict what happens with dreams.

2nd dream: The math test dream
Your father must have known about the math test beforehand, and was worried about you passing/failing because that’s his job.

As very well proven before, the only way that information can travel directly from one head to another without any sort of interaction is quantum entanglement, which:

A. Is very unstable. They aren’t stable in nature, and only last a millionth of a second at the very most.

B. Can only transmit binary information, which while the brain does work in electronic impulses, the brain isn’t binary. Any given brain impulse could be a 1 or a 0, but it could also be a 0.239 or a 0.867 or any number between 0 and 1.

C. Even if the brain was binary and the entanglement was naturally stable, which, for all intents and purposes is impossible, you can only read the binary of a quantum entanglement with big, heavy, multimillion dollar equipment. Not with your head. It’s IMPOSSIBLE!

D. For a brain cell to be activated by a quantum entangled particle, you need energy, and that’s more energy then any one particle should naturally have! Again, an impossibility.

E. Even if a quantum entangled particle could fire a brain cell, it wouldn’t mean anything to the person’s brain unless

1. The particle was in the exact same place as in the other person’s brain.
2. The brains were EXACTLY alike. Same memories, same external stimuli, everything.

F. Finally, the chances of all of this happening are 1 in a Graham’s number chance of happening.

I think that wraps this up. It’s impossible on multiple levels. If you really want to continue this, I can (most likely) think of many more ways that this is impossible.

Until then!

Math321

It depends. There is such thing as clairvoyancy and precognitive dreaming, believe me – I’ve experienced it/had them many times. But I’ve been practicing meditation for several years, and this is just a “by-product” of the practice(s). I think for people who dont have any spiritual or meditative practice, it can occur randomly for perhaps “obsessive” or “unconscious” psychological purposes. But, there still is a possibility that clairvoyancy, etc can still occur to people who dont have such practices.

@Math321 Honestly, I do NOT ever think of him; before sleeping, during the day, never! It must by psychosomatic.

I think no, because first, it doesn’‘t say anything about your dreams about a person who you’re obsessed with is thinking about you prior to sleeping. 2nd, how do you know they are thinking about you, or they know you’re thinking about them, it’s all in your mind that makes this such thing about the particular person you’re in love with. The other person who is thinking about you don’t know either that you like him/her or not. So, again no I don’t think its this way. Dreams happen because you’re brain developes them when you’re eyes see something more often. Just like if you’re so obsessed with something and you see it, play ir, or touch it more frequently, you’re brain is likely to develope more dreams about that thing. But when you stop see it, playing it, or touching it, you’re brain will stop developing dreams about that thing.