Does the brain Filter itself?\n\nI have a ugly dream last night and it was actually a situation that I been threw before and it is a fear.I wonder if it surfaced as a warning or my sub-conscious fear surfacing?
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I believe that dreams are both (meaning just that, dreams that are silly and meaningless and products of subconscious). There is symbolism in dreams indicating fears, issues, your willingness and readiness to deal with them, accomplishments, and many more with all outcomes varying on your own level of subconscious creativity. A small example could be the symbolic image of water or 'dream water' if you will. cloudy dream water could be issues that you are not ready to deal with. you swimming in cloudy dream water could be you dealing with the bad issues, or just trouble in your life. clear dream water is the exact opposite, at least when it all refers to me. I got my info from various dream books and realized the relevance with my life, emotions, and dreams. As a matter of fact, I first seek out the dream books because i was making the connections and was wondering if i was psychic lol!. well there's my nutty opinion and even nuttier experience. hope it helps. stay safe. lata.
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You might have sleep apnea.  This would cause your heart to pound as your oxygen level would go down and your heart would race to bring it back up.  If not, could you have been having a nightmare and not remember it?  You may have just been dreaming.  I dream that I wake up only to realize that it was part of a dream and that I wasn't really awake.  I don't mean to minimize your terror or worry just something I thought of.
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dreams do not always mean what they are about. they are more of subconcious memorys. \nwhat do you do?  what can you do?
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Usually these sort of irrational fears are misplaced anxiety and fears about something else that perhaps you do not want to face.  For example if when you were a child you were abused , when you were a kid your brain would protect you from the trauma by blocking it - putting in the 'back burner'.  However when you grow up, the fear  that was linked to the trauma would still be there and would bubble up to your awareness.    When we feel fear but we don't know why our brain would try to attach it to something so that we have some explanation and we don't go insane.   Your explanation is the zombies however you rationally know that zombies dint exist so the question is WHAT IS IT THAT YOU REALLY ARE AFRAID OF ?   it could be that you are afraid that someone close to you will die !   or you may have wished death for someone and you are afraid it may happen or you are afraid that you are not a nice person etc you get the idea !!   Its like anger ,,  if you are angry because your wife cheated on you 5 years ago but you have accepted her apologies and supposedly you forgave her  you will block it and then you will always be angry about the cracks on the pavement !!!!!!!   Every night before you got to bed ask your self loudly WHY AM I AFRAID ? \nnot what but WHY .    soon your brain will answer back . I know it sounds crazy but it aint.
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I know this is personal, but have you encountered any situations with rape or rape victims? Our dreams are our subcocious, and sometimes they reflect personal events that have happened. I am a rape victim and have had several like encounters in my dreams. I would suggest, if this pertains to you, to try counseling and see if it helps.
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I actually had a dream that my family moved and it was a terrible dream and a bad situation.  We had just moved about a week before, so I blew it off.  About a month later my husband lost his job for something stupid and we moved.  When we got to the house we got our U-haul stuck in the mud in our yard and at some point I was looking at the U-haul and the house, and it was just the same as in my dream.  It didn't make me feel ant better knowing that I had dreamt it.  Best wishes
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I have spent a lot of time in the past few years analyzing my dreams.  I find the more I pay attention to them, the more (and in depth) I dream -- or more and in-depth I remember them.  [The argument remains, "do we always dream & not always remember?" or "Do we not always dream?".  I, personally, have not decided that issue.]\n\nI do find that my dreams relate to the present.  For example, in last night's dream, I dreamed a restaurant caught fire (I mentioned a dessert from that restaurant in a recent Yahoo!Answer); I was about to watch a sports event with girls from my high school (I have been thinking about my high school in the past few days, and about some of my male friends loving to watch football on TV); we were about to pull a fire alarm before I woke up (it was exactly like the fire alarm at my high school)...\n\nI remembered about seven specific connections between what's been on my mind lately and what I dreamed about in that one dream -- before I got caught up in the day's activities.  \n\nI am seriously believing that night dreams are very much like "day dreams" -- when your mind wanders during awake hours (when you think of a subject and your mind wanders with it... you make a story out of it sometimes).  If you've "day dreamed", you know what I mean.  \n\nPerhaps the more creative or day-dreamer you are, the more you night dream.  And, the more you pay attention to them, the more you remember them. \n\nMy conclusion is, more and more (or I should say "continually/repeatedly"), settling on that  relationship.  I have been studying them for years because I have had time to devote to it and dreams are such a hot issue at times; I have been intent on figuring them out, if I could.\n\nI do not believe that dreams are symbolic of some "inner self" that you are not unaware or conscious of.\n\nI, too, find I dream more (at night), or remember them, when I am (in general) less stressed.  \n\n\nTHAT'S the report!!   :D
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Maybe it'll happen again tonight :-)  Past Life?, no way..  Sounds like you've been watching lots of movies and having fantasies, and your brain put it all together for you last night!
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yes, because i am falling into a deep state of unconsiousness, known as sleep. i think of important things, which i nearly instantly forget. but i remember they are important. falling asleep is nothing like the way it is presented on television or on the media. the natural way is simply shutting down all organs in your system for utter tranquility and comfort. when i am tired, i tend to do strange things. yesterday, i was exhausted after my 2nd class at school, so i left home without even considering the circumstances. being tiresome completely changes my personality. i wouldnt be the least bit surprised if the same occured to everyone else. i hope i answered your question correctly =).
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this is natural and normal  Dream and fear, there's several possibilities as to why you dreamed this dream... i could not begin to speculate based on the information you provided.. what you dream is secondary to the state of affairs you are presently in or going/leaving from.\nthat is a better indicator of reasons for the fear..\nit is said that we have several tools to help aide us such as feeling that you are being watched and you look around and see that you are... we feel/sense  others eyes on us. or feeling that a situation/place/person/event is "right" or "not right" (intuition) i believe that the dream is another sense that we use... you i believe have the answer... there is no question without an answer... your answer is probably right (99%) chance, because you analyzed your dream yourself (answered your question..\nmay i suggest that you take control over your dream  it is possible to dream what you want to dream.. with practice..\ntry thinking of clouds before you go to sleep, water, landscape,\nthese are the easiest to get you started.. then focus on what you would like to dream about (it takes time) but you can and will focus your subconscious on your conscience thoughts/images.\n\nsorry to b so long winded.. this is vital and a tool that we seldom use. and its for our peace
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Oh, you're clearly the anti-Christ!  \n\nLOL.  Just kidding.\n\nDreams are very strange.  Sometimes I have had dreams where my brother was so mean, or a friend of mine was very mean, and in real life, they are wonderful people who would never act like they did in my dreams!  I don't know why I would ever dream that of them.  But just because I did certainly does not mean that there was any truth at all to the dream.  I had probably just eaten onions or something.\n\nSometimes dreams are just our brains jumping from one thought to another, and it tries to make sense of them, but it does not always do so accurately.  So if one moment these people were dreaming about meanness, and then you popped into their thoughts, the brain will try to connect the meanness with you or something.  It doesn't mean you are evil!\n\nPerhaps your own dreams are your own insecurities about this.  Look at your awake life.  If you are acting like a good and nice person, ask yourself why.  Are your motives pure?  Even if they are not, you can make them pure.  You just have to realize first exactly who you are, so you can be a better person.\n\nI have a feeling you're not so bad.  ;-)
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thats interesting ..i never thought about that before ...can a blind person dream of something that they have never seen ? i think maybe they would dream more of the things they experinced while not being able to see ...since the theory is , when u lose one sense another one gets stronger .(.touch , smell , and taste ...)
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I can sometimes do that.  If I'm dreaming and know I'm dreaming, I'll lower my inhibitions a bit and just let myself go because I know it's "not real".  (i.e., if it's a "happy" dream and I want to go through with it because I know there won't be any consequences because it's "just a dream")\nAnd I have woken up from a dream and wanted to go back to resume my dream.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  If I am not "fully awake" and I focus on the dream and where I was, I can resume it.  If I wake up fully and try to go back to sleep to resume it, it doesn't usually work...\n\nInteresting question...
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I am not going to give you a lecture like others do.\n\ndreams are from our subconscious mind, based on our daily experience, they reveal your inner personalities like fear, desire.  They can be triggered by media effect, actual event and personal experience..
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Everybody dreams though they may not remember them. There are many schools of thought on the dreaming process. It is believed that they are just random images going through your brain, it is also believed that your dreams hold meanings by analyzing the images. \n Personally I love dreaming and when I go through stages of not remembering them it saddens me as I learn alot of things from my dreams. They also give me ideas that I can use in other ways...
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These are big dreams buddy, but here's the standard model:\n\nYour brain works by making connections between ideas; if they are similar enough, the connection is substantial and they beocome mental metaphors of sorts.  Assuming this is not psychological repression (something from your past that you are blocking out, very unlikely), you are making a connection between HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT hiding a murder and something else.  First you have to answer how you feel about it.  \nIt sounds like you feel that you dont want someone to know about it, I.E., the connection is being made between something in your life that you want hidden.  Start asking yourself that question -- do you have something you dont want others to know about?  The body is probably the secrect, so study the body for answers to figure out what the brain is getting on about.  Remember, these are usually emotional connections, not literal.  Say you cheated on your wife (obviously I know nothing about your life, this is an example, and its likely to be more subtle than that); this is they type of dream you'd have if you thought that she might be closer to finding out, or you were feeling guilty, or what not.  The body would be the guilt or the secret, though, not something physical.  Its just a metaphor or logical connection being made by your brain between two ideas (the logic is noth teh ideas themselves, its how you feel about the two ideas that the connection is based on.)  \n\nNOTE! Its not necessrily a bad thing that you did, its just something that you dont want people to know about.  YOu have to answer your own questions with these things, but if its repeating, then your brain is trying to tell you something and you'd probably be in better shape to figure out what.  \n\nHere's a question to ask yourself that will probably tell you a lot about your answer.  Who are you most afraid to tell about your dream?
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No..\nThey are going to think you've lost your mind...\n\nDreams are simply a state in your unconscious mind that reveal your inner most thoughts, fears, wishes, and sometimes it's just a carnival of emotions.\n\nAs you hide your feelings from others, your subconscious needs to let those feelings go....  And dreams are one way of safely accomplishing a "mind purge."\n\nYou could also pick up a gun, climb up a clock tower, and go ballistic on the public.\nIt's really all up to you...\n\nBut bring a few doublecheese burgers on your way up the tower.\nAt least you won't starve.