Dreams have been discussed here in the past - but what are they exactly for you?

I think dreams usually represent what I am worried about in real life, what I need to work through.

I usually don’t remember my dreams. When I do, it is usually a bad dream, a nightmare. My nightmares typically are me running to get away from a bad person. Many times I am beaten, stabbed or shot. They usually happen as reoccurring dreams for weeks on end. For me it represents having no control over what is happening to my body, and seeing doctors usually causes them.

Just last night I had a dream I was in Mexico and a friend was with me who usually would not be with me. We were at my MIL’s house (but not really her house, it was a different house in a dangerous area). I had not slent time thinking about this dream until this question. When I woke up from it I thought it was really odd, but now I am thinking it represents a couple regrets I had last time I visited my MIL. Things I wish I had not said.

It’s just brain processing the info we absorbed during that day I don’t see any deeper meaning in it.Yes they are healthy and vital of course.

A bit of a ride, really. Sometimes it’s a nice gentle ride, like a Sunday drive in the countryside. Sometimes it’s a surreal ride, in a fascinating world full of creatures that don’t exist and super-saturated colors. And then there are the terrifying rides… like the highest roller coaster ever, one with no safety harnesses. All in all, I find them entertaining, mostly.

I had a dream the other night that both the jonsblonds and I were hanging around on a patio, drinking beer. That was fun. :D

I believe it’s just the brain processing what it’s been thinking about whilst awake. I like to remember them though. Sometimes they give me ideas for stories. Often my dreams are like (cheap, tacky) adventure movies. They even have a sort-of plot, sometimes, and there’s nearly always a chase involved somewhere.

It’s another world in which I like to escape. I enjoy dreaming, as I often see some of the things I want to in the real world, but am unable to. Dreams for me are an adventure, sometimes exciting, sometimes terrifying and sometimes wonderous. If I didn’t dream, I would be very depressed.

I enjoy my dreams, they have taken me to some pretty wonderful places packed full of emotions. I used to get scary ones when I was young but nowadays they are mostly very pleasant. The last one I remember I was in an old flat of mine and the orange coloured kitchen curtains were blowing open in a clean warm wind that drove all the stale air from the flat. It doesn’t sound much written down but there was a nice feel to it with an almost erotic tinge.

Dreams for me have many meanings. Some are just inspired by things I experienced threw the day. Some are reminders of my past. Others are my subconscious thoughts and feelings or my conscious thoughts and feelings. Once in a while they tell the future! Most likely it’s either coincidences or clues I picked up on without realizing. They mean a lot to me and I love researching supposed meanings.

Dreams are not anything I spend much time trying to remember. I figure they do their thing, and I do mine and if they need to to communicate to me, they’ll make themselves known.

Defragmentation, and perhaps more.

Dreams are pretty cool, if they’re intense enough and if I remmeber them clearly, it’s like hanging around in some other place. It helps that a lot of environments and themes in my dreams are often reoccurring, so it’s like it has its own mythos. They’re not much of anything else for me though. I admit though, I do enjoy looking up meanings and stuff, even if I don’t believe in it. ...mostly. XD

I think dreams are telling you things that you need to know. You should write down as much of your dreams as you can remember & then study them so you can get some idea of what the symbols are as they relate to you (most people will have symbols that they can identify with, even though some dream images are universal).

Dreams can be very creative in the way they speak to us. I often have very odd dreams that I don’t understand but when I talk about them to a friend, as I am telling them, I realize that the dream is a metaphor. By having to put it into words I see it. I had a dream in which there was an ancient city in an old warehouse that was made of ice. I went to see it and I wanted to photograph it to document it somehow. But when I got there it was all melted away. What did it mean? I have my theory but it doesn’t matter. I love dreamscapes and I love surrealistic art that seeks to utilize those subconscious symbols.
Sooo…., Zensky What __did__ you learn on the dream documentary???