Are our dreams a reflection of reality?

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes.

Dreams are your subconscious thoughts manifestations. But they also have independent meanings.

Most importantly, your dreams convey your most deeply guarded secrets or they might give you some hidden hints about inherent dangers. Most often than not, your dreams reveal what is happening in your life right now.

You may even have an instinct that something bad will happen in the near future in your dreams. More powerfully, some people have the uncanny ability to foresee events of the future in their dreams.

But why, most of the people don’t experience it, is because, we forget most of our dreams.

Dreams seem to help us process emotions by encoding and constructing memories of them. What we see and experience in our dreams might not necessarily be real, but the emotions attached to these experiences certainly are.

Our dream stories essentially try to strip the emotion out of a certain experience by creating a memory of it. This way, the emotion itself is no longer active.

Can you imagine a sound you have never heard? Some musicians can, and quite often spend years 'seeking a sound' that they can hear but don't know how to create

Most people at some time dream of events that later happen. Commonly they appear to be coincidences, and if you relate them, others will dismiss them as such, but you will actually feel it is not a coincidence

Again, if we write our dreams down, we will rationalize them to make sense in a linear sequence, yet when we mentally go back over our dreams they are not in a linear form but we are in the center superimposed images

It has been said that we never see ourselves in mirrors in dreams. Again, we commonly see ourselves in difficult situations yet know we are dreaming. With practice we can actually make ourselves dream.

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Thank you?...We can have seemingly long dreams yet they take a fraction of a second. We can be asleep and hear outside sounds that we incorporate in our dreams in a meaningful way

We can dream we are being killed, and see it happening. We can have dreams in sequences like a TV series. We can have dreams that include sequences from other dreams

The main problem of investigating dreams is that we try to make sense of them, rather like being in a real state of chaos and trying to describe it when the images have no sequence

The closest we can get to describe a dream would be with a video editing program that allows us to separate and overlay images and sounds. It is a method used in film making when shooting dream sequences

Being able to interpret dreams would be a huge advance for science. It has implications for medicine, communications, religion, and education

Perhaps the biggest puzzle is whether dreaming has evolved for a purpose

There was a time when people heard music but could not sing it or notate it. Once we could then music took on forms of its own, and machines can now create an infinite range of sounds we have never imagined

When we can answer the question in scientific way we may have moved into the last level of awareness

On the other hand, our dreams may well be the only private territory we have lefts, and it may be better to leave it that way

Do you want to add a word or two?....

From the abundance of studies, mostly MRI, strongly suggest that every conscious thought comes from the subconscious.

Studies on dreams: Most of them are the result of random firings of neurons, from which the subconscious creates a story.

Nightmares, on the other hand, represent our fears in the waking world. 99% of them have no connection to the actual fear inducing event.

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

Your comments........?

Most dreams are not memorable ones; most are based on reasonable, normal experiences.

Dreams are not magical, don’t tell the future, and aren’t sent by spirits, demons, angels, God, or gods.

Dreams are just products of our imagination.

I don’t blame people for asking; dream interpretation has been around for thousands of years! And dreams can at times be REALLY strange.

Many think dreams are more than just the way your brain processes information while you’re sleeping.

Dream interpretation is just part of a spiritual belief system unsupported by meaningful evidence.

When you are awake, you are, without being aware of it, constantly receiving a barrage of information, sights and sounds, feelings, etc. that go straight to the brain.

At certain times while you are sleeping, it all gets sorted, filed away as memories, or discarded, resulting in your imagination going wild. The brain makes a narrative, tells stories in your sleep, stories which can be very complicated indeed but may not make any sense.

This happens mostly during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep, which corresponds exactly as one is dreaming. It may even happen when you think you are wide awake. This is something all mammals experience.

That dreams really don’t mean anything is pretty much a fact.

There are many different types of dreams.

Processing dreams - where your brain is clearing out the day’s events. Perhaps your subconscious is working out how you feel about whatever it is you are dreaming about. Sometimes a subconscious desire shows up in a dream, but the details are not what you would want; like say the specific person involved.

Breakdown/transformation dreams - when you are going through a life change, or spiritual path leap, either consciously or unconsciously.

Premonition dreams - seeing into the future.

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