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Had a weird dream last night no explanation for. It revolved around a guy I knew from school and who lived in the neighborhood in which I grew up and does now. I rarely see him other than occasionally in passing usually during summer months. He has a window cleaning business. Anyhow in my dream it was as if I was caught in a loop (sort of like the brain trying to file the record was jamming or the LP was skipping) he kept showing up and I was discussing having some windows cleaned on a large building (I don't own one). When I awakened I had a difficult time trying to connect it with anything remotely to the past days happenings. Bizarre. Gremlins were in my synapses last night.
One other occasion that's funny (a dream about making love with Myrna Loy after watching a classic 1930s movie) and I have a theory for it - outside of the obvious.
We as sensate beings are bombarded by multiple stimuli simultaneously throughout our awake hours if we are actively engaging: socially, work, or whatever capacity. I have noticed on occasion when one meditates or does any activity whose purpose is to 'flush' or shutter the human body of external stimuli to connect with inner energy, or simply put, your 'mind is clear and relaxed while you are engaged in an engrossing activity of interest (living in the moment) that one has clearer/cleaner memory recordings.
If I recall, there were studies done to show placing people in some heightened situation while giving them visual stimuli made them recall it much better. Anyway, the Myrna Loy lovemaking session dream was one of those totally cleared mind events where I must have absorbed the essence of the person on film gone to bed and 'created' a wonderful night to remember.
No I don't think God or spirits try to communicate with us through dreams.
I think dreams are just processes of a brain that is only working part time. The stimuli is usually memories and sometimes we even find ourselves dreaming of people who haven't seen in years.
But they do seem to reflect some of our fears and needs but I guess we keep those in memory too.
I haven't seen the movie "Waking Life" recently but that movie somehow affected some of my dreams. Sometimes when I dream of real people I realize that they are characters and not the real person. Usually they cannot answer my questions or even fake being the real person very well.
In your philosophical opinion, what are the meaning/point of Dreams?
Could it be natures/Gods way (depending on your views) of trying to communicate with us?
Its your body's way of trying to wake itself up so you can hydrate yourself or go to the restroom.
That must be a good sign to not have a nightmare since you were that young?
I take it as a sign that I must be doing something right.
I refuse to live in fear, and I guess that translates into my nocturnal consciousness, too. I'm not afraid of household germs or Muslims or anything in between, so what is there to have nightmares about?
In your philosophical opinion, what are the meaning/point of Dreams?
Could it be natures/Gods way (depending on your views) of trying to communicate with us?
Dreams are VERY important in my opinion and for completely scientific reasons. To understand why, you have to know a couple basic facts about the human mind:
1.The mind is like an iceberg. The conscious mind is only the tip you can easily see above water.
2. "You" is actually more accurately described as "we"... we all have multiple personalities. It becomes a disorder when the conscious mind can't filter them all out. If you don't believe it, ask yourself when you last interacted with a character in your dreams and consider how much "control" you had of that character.
3. Your subconscious mind doesn't "turn off" when you are awake either... Everything (and more) that our conscious mind takes in is also being churned through the subconscious. The influence of the subconscious is simply drowned out by the "loud", narrowly focused conscious mind in normal daily life.
4. Our conscious mind is always about a second behind the actual experience and the subconscious is getting our sensory imput quicker, plus it's got a more complete (albeit rawer) recollection of all that sensory imput.
This all means that in actuality, we are actually only operating on a faction of our mind's true capability. This doesn't mean anything "magical", just that we've generally failed to use what we've got and assumed the acutally mediocre conscious mind is the best our brain gets when it really isn't.
And Dreams?
Dreams are actually a convenient doorway into that massive "subconscious realm" of information and connections that naturally opens up for us every night. The subconscious speaks in a "language" of it's own that is mostly unique to the mind it erupts from. Getting to know your own "dream language" and even actively participating in dreams through lucid dreaming eventually helps break down the walls between the conscious and subconscious, giving you greater access to your "whole self" to tackle all of life's problems.
There are other much more difficult ways to "get into" the subconscious through altered mental states but that's a subject for another thread...
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