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post #31 of 42
11/20/10 at 5:51pm
FWIW: I had a dream last night where a friend of mine killed himself in front of me. It was graphic and a little unsettling.
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post #32 of 42
11/20/10 at 6:09pm
I have styleforum related dreams once and a while.
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post #33 of 42
11/20/10 at 6:16pm
I place considerable value on those dreams that obviously have an profound impact/relationship to my subconscious. If I wake up from a dream sweating or afraid or in ecstasy, I think it's only wise to spend a bit of time trying to determine what it could mean. I am also convinced that dreams have limited prophetic value, and I don't at all see this as illogical. In fact, I think viewing time and space as strictly linear progressions as even more simple-minded.
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post #34 of 42
11/20/10 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by Petrus1 View Post
Yes, dreams are sometimes important but most people ignore them or don't understand the significance. During your waking hours you are subjected to all sorts imput some so subtle that you are not even conscious of it. Most dreams probably mean nothing and it's sort of like your brain is rearranging things (like a computer defragging itself) so that information can be got at quicker. But in other dreams it's like your natural animal survival mechanism is trying to tell or warn you of something based on some info you took in but were unaware of or even just an animal sense about something.Just like other animals humans sense things and sometimes it comes out in a dream.We also dream in symbols a lot.Suppose you had a dream and in it you were bitten by a dog. A dog is a universal symbol of loyalty and friendship and a dream like this can mean that someone you believed was a friend may betray you.
Dreams can also indicate a medical problem before you're conscious of a symptom since most people in their waking hours tend to ignore things. Suppose you have a dream where your jacket is extremely tight. This may indicate a heart condition. Or suppose a female dreams a tooth falls out. She may be pregnant. Actually Freud even used this one and it's taken from folklaw otherwise he was a very bad interpretor of dreams because he was sort of imposing his ideas on the dream rather then using a scientific method where you would just collect data and see from certain outcomes if it made sense.

You're full of shit.

Dreams are wonderful fodder for inspiration. I've had dreams about bizarre music and surreal landscapes that I wish I had the talent to compose or paint. They are not Gypsy mystics.
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post #35 of 42
11/26/10 at 9:42am
I think dreams are like a screensaver for the mind, with bits of thoughts and images collected in your brain, nothing else.
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post #36 of 42
11/26/10 at 1:32pm
I've been getting shot about once a week in my dreams for the last three months.
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post #37 of 42
12/1/10 at 4:38pm
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no.

they're most likely random firing of neurons and prolly have to do something with memory storage

Agreed! Someone's taken a neurobiology class.
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post #38 of 42
12/2/10 at 8:55am
Thread Starter 
I have a question though for those who find dreams to have no value, purely for inquisition sake.

If dreams have no value, then why do they exist? What biological purpose does dreaming serve?

Secondly, if they are simply random sets of memories, might they still have an artistic value, in their subverting consciousness? Or do dreams really subvert the conscience?
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post #39 of 42
12/3/10 at 5:35pm
For some reason I started to have a thing for fucked up/obscure dreams. I also like watching Lynch's movies before i go to sleep (watching lost highway right now). In Mulholland drive, the scene with "monster behind corner" - I would love to experience feeling of that man in a dream. Human mind is a strange thing
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post #40 of 42
12/3/10 at 6:44pm
I've had lucid dreams for about three or four years now. They all take place in the same little Slumberland City, and they are so real that I often wake up exhausted. I place value in them in that I think something is probably really wrong with me.
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post #41 of 42
12/3/10 at 6:47pm
Never recreate from your memory, always imagine new places.
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post #42 of 42
12/3/10 at 6:57pm
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Originally Posted by Manny Calavera View Post
... they are so real that I often wake up exhausted. I place value in them in that I think something is probably really wrong with me.

+1

I don't know about other people but I absolutely love nightmares, the scarier and more F'ed up the better.

lately the theme has been hunting hobos living in my walls and attic with a shotgun. The first thing I always have to do when I wake up is to make sure my girlfriend is ok, because the hobos have this scheme to swap her with a crack whore.... lol, I find it endlessly amusing.
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