Are dreams the way that our subconcious talks to us?

I cannot take seriously a question that begins with: “like”

Like, when you’re sleeping, then who is your subconscious talking to? Like, to itself?

Nostradamus was a fraud who played upon ambiguity like a carnival Tarot reader.

Your dreams may contain some content that has a meaning to you, or they may be just random neuronic firings. You are the only person on earth who can possibly tell if your dreams have a meaning, and if so, what that meaning is.

Well, like, I think it does. Maybe not every dream, but a lot of them are our subconscious telling us something.

No. Some things in dreams are reflections of things that are causing us emotional stress (dreams about showing up for school naked, for example), but most are just the brain moving stuff around and sorting things out.

For the love of God, people.
I wasn’t saying it with the intention of seeming like an airhead.
I was saying it to give an example.

@troubleinharlem hey, that’s not fair; my post isn’t funny anymore

@patg7590 – but it never was.
now you see it my way.

ooh burn

I wouldn’t say that it is our subconscious “talking to us”, but rather our subconscious expressing itself.

It seems to me that my dreams are always the things I thought about for only a split second sometime during the day. If I dwindle on it, I won’t dream about it.

I often have recurring dreams, usually months or years apart. Does anyone know what those are all about?

I also find that I am as prudent in my dreams as I am in real life. I often wake up wish I had done the unthinkable in my dream; after all, there’s no consequences in dreams right?

@jfos – so it isn’t really telling us more about ourselves, right?

@patg7590 – it’s the opposite for me.

Dream books can only give you the author’s POV on dreams. We all have our own personal archetypes (see Carl Jung for more information on archetypes). Anyone who tells you they know what your dreams mean and will interpret it for you is, at best a charlatan, and at worst, a liar.

Dream books can give you a general idea of dream archetypes, but to take them at face value is pointless. A simple case in point. You and I both have the same dream, (as near as we can tell) one that involves a white horse, an airplane, and showing up naked to work. Should we use the same dream book, then our dreams would be about the same. Not true. While showing up naked at work or school or whatever MIGHT have to do with anxiety, it also might have something to do with whether or not I am an exhibitionist. As for the horse and the airplane, well only through self-reflection can we figure out why a white horse would be flying a bi-plane.

I think so. I don’t think it’s a deliberate message, though – one notable researcher whose name begins with F said that pathways of connections between thoughts, memories, emotions, etc. – the stuff of our minds – are created when certain input makes an impression. This input sinks down to the unconscious, and when we dream for a reason that has to do with that input dreams, for him, were unconscious wishes – but that’s another story the pathway gets lit up.

Did I get it right, pdworkin?

@patg7590 seems our moral compass invades our sleep as well. =)

@Psychedelic_Zebra sometimes, If I’m nearly awake, I can tell me dream-self: “hey, it’s ok to go for it; it’s only a dream.”

How weird is that?

@troubleinharlem Not necessarily. I mean I’m not a dream-expert or anything, but I think that some of the mindsets/situations/problems in our dreams certainly relate to “real life”, and some are just fantasties or entertainment.

I’m firmly convinced that you can have a very intense, memorable, apparently symbolic dream, something like a David Lynch film, that leaves you really feeling disturbed, concerned about what it means, and it means nothing. It’s just synapses firing, random images surfacing as your brain is actually storing away the things you’ve learned or experienced the day before, etc. So you go around telling people about your dream, reading about dream interpretation, asking what it means, thinking about, because it was so intense, when you would be better off ignoring and forgetting about it because it says nothing about you, your thoughts, your feelings, or your future. Except that little people and old people sort of creep you out. That’s why dreams fade from memory and get foggy so quickly, because they are meaningless.

I don’t think so. I think we like to believe so, but I think our dreams are made up of random memories that we impose a story on simply because that’s how we understand things.

The memories might or might not be real memories.

I think the subconscious “speaks” in other ways. Sometimes it’s messages seem to simply appear like magic. Sometimes they are niggling worries. They are hard to understand in a raw form, and trying to interpret dreams is fun, but I don’t think it’s very meaningful.

@daloon

I agree (mostly). Dreams can be fragmented images but I always manage to craft some sort of narrative out of them.

Of course, that doesn’t make them any less fascinating or meaningful to me. Nabokov liked to shuffle index cards he’d scribbled on and write novels that way.

There are many different systems of belief that revolve around dream meanings. I completely disagree that dreams are random as do many intelligent people. I admit that some dreams are like random occurrences but I do not believe that is the case for all of them. I also disagree that the subject person is the only one who can determine the meaning of their dream. That requires great introspection and sometimes we do not have the ability to do so ourselves. Carl Jung has some great dream theory that is used in modern psychology today. Also there are many cultural beliefs that occur around dream meanings.

In response to your question? Are dreams the way our subconscious talks to us? I think that in some instances this is the case, yes.

@patg7590 That’s not weird. It’s just Lucid Dreaming.

@patg7590 Like, do you dwindle on many things?

I’m not sure about dreams, but I do know my brain is sorting things out when I sleep. More than once I’ve woken up suddenly, sat bolt upright saying, “I know the answer!!” I can’t associate that with any dream, though.

@Val123 I like, try not to; unless they’re things I want to dream about, but then once I realize I want to dream about them, I’ve already thought about them too long to be able to dream about them.

@patg7590 I think you meant “dwell!” “Dwindle” means to….slowly go away. Like, “the tree dwindled to nothing before it died.”

@Val123 yeah that one.
…now please excuse me while I dwindle away in shame…

@patg7590 LOL! I’m sorry! But, you know…..your shame will dwindle till it’s gonedled! :)

I hope not, my dreams are seriously F#*&!! up

Your subconscious “talks” to you through logic which brings thoughts and ideas across the threshold between the two minds and into the conscious mind. Dreams are your subconscious mind’s sorting out the things it wants to remember.