Do your dreams often have repercussions on your reality?
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August 8th, 2009
For example if you dream someone has been unkind to you and you are aggressive to them in the dream, when you later see them in real life is some of that aggression still there?
I am more and more finding that I am having arguments with my friend in my dreams at this moment in my life and I am finding it hard to distinguish between whether some of this anger is through real stuff they have done to me or whether I have just dreamt it. I also feel that because of these dreams I have drifted so far apart from them that I cannot consider them my friend any more.
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Maybe it would be a good idea to try to keep the difference between dreams and life straight. You may be punishing innocent friends.
It’s usually the other way around, your actions affect your dreams. So if you were fighting with your friend the day before, your dreams will show that, and you may just be in a cycle of arguing, dreaming, arguing, etc. Basically your dreams are a way of your subconsious mind trying to sort out problems you’ve been having.
Well @Rant, that’s the traditional psychodynamic point of view, but we really don’t have much evidence that it’s true.
The fact that we dream, makes dreams a fact of reality. Dreams are real, just like being awake is real. Neither one “affects” my reality. They ARE my reality, the subjective representation of objective reality.
This happended to me in Wednesday! I went to sleep and had a dream about my “aunt” and I woke up angry and I didn’t know why till I thought about it.
No.
Be aware that some schools of dream interpretation say that characters in our dreams are just aspects of ourselves.
So, you may want to look at the content of the arguments and what their message might be for you before holding your poor friend accountable for something he had nothing to do with.
Yes, this has happened to me. If I dream about someone who I don’t really have much of a relationship with, I’ll kind of see them differently the next day. It’s like a strangely personal connection was just made that wasn’t there before. Especially if it was a romantic dream about someone, I will definitely view him in a different light.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies so, according to your definition, the dream I had where I could fly just by thinking about it was me really flying like a bird by simply spreading my arms and gliding around the summer sky?
Only you can interpret your own dreams, and anyone who tries to do it for you is probably just trying to give credibility to the Psychology degree that they earned, and can’t find a use for it that will support them financially.
@evelyns_pet_zebra
Not a definition, just acknowledging reality. The fact that you told me about the dream means that you did indeed have that dream. That dream is real and therefore part of your subjective reality.
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