Thread: Are your dreams a guide to the future??

What do you think dreams interpret? Are they warnings, possibly a guide to the future, or indirect visual to unlock ones potential, resolve issues perhaps, a message from the sub-conscience of whats going on in your mind? Are dreams just a rush of thoughts, experience, emotions mixed into one.

How do your dreams fit in with reality?

Well I've had 4 dreams in a row of my ex it's kinda scary really, but from that I can conclude dreams couldn't possibly tell the future because I'm sure I won't see her again. I believe they rise from emotions or things that are happening throughout your life that are affecting you emotionally or mentally. I believe the answer is perhaps even more complex, it's almost like asking "what's the meaning to life?" It cannot be answered. Dreams show us so many things and most of the time they are random, but I'm gonna extend on my answer and say it may also be a visualization of our biggest fears, desires and questions. I've always found every dream to be related with something in my personal life. The funny thing about dreams is that I could usually tell when it was a dream and force myself to wake up, lately I can't tell the difference anymore

I think my dreams are a mix of all things that I've experienced or had random thoughts about in recent weeks. For example, I had a dream that I was at my college, looking for a counselor who just happened to be Howie Mandel. After talking with him, I proceeded to head to my college's cafeteria where there was a pond with fish and I decided to go fishing. Then I woke up. If that dream meant something, then I'd be glad for someone to tell me, because I have no clue.

I want anyone who dreams to check this site out, its basically a dream dictionary. Very interesting and might guide you. For example, by entering fishing

Fishing
To dream that you are fishing indicates that you are confronting and bringing your repressed emotions to the surface. In particular, to dream that you are ice fishing suggests that you are breaking through a hardened emotional barrier and confronting difficult feelings from your unconscious.Alternatively, it represents your need for leisure and relaxation.

Consider the common phrase "fishing for compliments". Perhaps you are looking for attention.

An Online Guide To Dream Interpretation

Dream on Dream on Dream on man i am cracking up if only dreams were the guide to ur future then i wud be a billionaire and life wud be my bitch :):) Medically and scientifically a dream can include any of the images, thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can be extraordinarily vivid or very vague, filled with joyful emotions or frightening imagery, focused and understandable or unclear and confusing. Why do we dream? What purpose do dreams serve? While many theories have been proposed, no single consensus has emerged. Considering the enormous amount of time we spend in a dreaming state, the fact that researchers do not yet understand the purpose of dreams may seem baffling. However, it is important to consider that science is still unraveling the exact purpose and function of sleep itself.

"dream is destiny"

if you haven't already, i thoroughly recommend watching the animation "waking life" ... amazing and brilliant and packed with ideas. i must've seen it at least 15x and still it never loses its charm

with respect to dreaming as a gateway into the future, i'm not entirely sure. the rational part of me believes that it's just a construct of the mind, and more or less a simulation of random neuronal firing. on the other hand, i've experienced a lot of dream-related non-ordinary states of conciousness and used to be massively into astral projection and lucid dreaming... that part of me likes to think there's something more to dreaming than necessarily meets the eye.

Try reading something in a dream, it isn't possible...

or flicking on a light switch!

actually, this is one technique that's recommended in lucid dreaming. if you make a habit of flicking the light switch on and off (in your waking life) then as a consequence of habit, you'll attempt to do so while you're dreaming. if you happen to try this while you're dreaming, you'll find that you're unable to turn the light on, which will hopefully make you realise that you're actually dreaming... which in turn will trigger lucidity.

Originally Posted by AnteL0pe

Try reading something in a dream, it isn't possible...

Lol, just have to reply to this. I have actually tried it, I woke up, and everytime I dream "that dream" again I now know in the dream that I can't read that book no matter what So I keep on looking around for other books to read, find one, can't read it, wake up, and so on and on again. What does that mean i real life? That I read too much? (which I probably do....) Lol.