Why do we dream? Even some places that we have never been before?
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u construct the place from various pieces of other places where u have been. that is what makes a human different from a comp. ability to imagine.
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Oh yeah, I've had those deja' vu instances many times. Especially if it happens to be an older place, maybe a place with some history or legend behind it.  Sometimes it's just nothing more than a coincidence, other times, who knows a leap into something that might have occurred in your past?\nI don't think anyone really knows or understands fully what cases those feelings. It could be something you have lived before if you believe in reincarnation and past lives, it could be that you saw that place or had been to that place when you were younger and only by seeing it or going to it again did it bring back that past memory from your childhood.\n\nMe I believe in Past lives and reincarnation. But that's just me and my opinion on things.
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a dream is just a thought process. \nWe dont have to be asllep to dream. We even dream sometimes when we are awake...Our Brain goes on a thought spree..\nand makes us believe what ever it thinks. Thats why dreams feel so real sometimes...
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Dreams are crazy and they all have hidden messages, remember that your subconcious mind is still working as you sleep\n\nI dreamed that I was at a carnival. The rides were very colorful and I got on this ride that was SO MUCH FUN!! \nThe dream was very enjoyable because it was very colorful and the people in my dream were very very friendly and happy people
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always happens to me but there is no clear cut policy on what dream is doing what, some are for counseling us and some are for detouring us from disaster, some are showing future but in  some odd way than reality, then some are just completely useless in the real world and some are completely reality based. good luck , please ask your higher self to give you answers after you wake up from these dreams. God bless
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Most of my dreams are of people I've never met and places I've never been.\nOne thought is that these people are real and they are interacting with one of my 12 (or 144 depending on who you read) soul extensions and I'm tapping into one of those soul extension's lives for the dream.\nAnother thought is that I am a writer and extremely creative so even my dreams are unique.\nMy therapist says every person in a dream is an aspect of the dreamer. So if there's a tall thin black sharp-shooting army woman in my dream, it's up to me to figure out what she represents in my personality.
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Really? Cause I am having dreams of that sort for almost 6 or 7 years. I have dreamed it at least 30 times and every time it's different town and situation. Are you dreaming the same thing or different every time? Could that mean something will happened?
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Usually dreams are an extension of what you are really feeling.  So maybe you should or make sure that it is something that you want to do.  Think about it for awhile.
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Our brain keeps track of everything we ever see or hear, whether or not it's important to us. I've had some very strange dreams sometimes involving things I've never in my life thought of doing. Your brain can only compartmentalize everything it's seen when it's not being distracted by everyday life. During the day we're busy interacting with people, working, doing chores, even now as I'm typing, Im distracting my brain. When we sleep, it gets to deal with everything that's come our way. So what I'm saying is, don't worry about your dream. It's just a big ol' jumble of things you've encountered in your life, whether on tv or for real. I do empathize with your problems sleeping though. That's happened to me when I've had strange, bad or weird dreams. It'll go away fairly soon though.\n\nGood luck and sweet dreams tonight! :)\n\nP.S. I included a link to a show archive from Dr. Phil that you might find interesting. Last week he had a show dealing with sleep problems. One of the women on there had a HORRIBLE dream for the last 18 years.
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our life is a dream you are right! Everything we do is just an illusion .\n\nour mind created it and we just follow blindly. If just for a second before you want to do anything.....pause for awhile check whether you are at present or the past or the future..........then maybe one day you get the answere.\n\nYour experience are great!  Maybe you should go for a retreat under a great meditation teacher
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Annoying when responders can be too bloody literal, wouldn't you agree?\n\nI was walking last night looking up at the stars and wondering almost the same question, "Is this life a very long very detailed dream we'll someday wake out of?"\nI myself have incredibly vivid, sometimes wild and unbelievable dreams, and sometimes so real that it's a distinct relief when I wake from it. \nA friend and I have thought that some of the more fantastic "almost another world" sort of dreams are just that, our celestial bodies mingling with other realities and possibly other parallel planes of existance. \nOf course I can't prove any of that, it's my own personal experience, but it's real for me and therefore valid.\n\nI myself have experienced what Prof Beatz mentioned about not being able to make lights come on, and not being able to read things written on paper (though I have sometimes and I get the feeling if I could just remember what it said it would be very revealing).\n\nMatrix really spooked me because of my open-mindedness, but if it turns out I'm on some feeding tube of the worst stuff possible and still able to be this real in my mind, then I'll take contentment for the moment. \n\nKeep seeking your own answers....
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I always find dreams really interesting.  In my dreams are events and scenarios that I could never think of on my own.  I kind of like the lack of logic in dreams. So, dreams interest me a lot, too.  I always pick up any article or whatever that I see about dreams.  From what I've read, dreams are your subconscious trying to work out your problems, and in extreme cases they help people move on from tragedies, because it helps them deal.  That's cool that you're conscious in your dreams.  That never happens to me but I do know people that could relate to you that way.  You can probably learn a lot from yourself by controlling your dreams
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Some dreams are our subconcious telling us something were afraid of, something we feel guilty of , someone we miss, there are alot of different way to interpert dreams, especially if you are remembering this one, you may take a closer look and try and sort it out.
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When I dream, I don't just see things, I also feel them.  I remember dreams that I've tasted food, felt pain, smelled flowers, and heard noises.  I would imagine that in a blind person's dreams, that is how they dream, the same way they experience the world.
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Dreams are the subconscious minds' method of acting out possible scenarios in our own lives. There have been experiments into sleep deprivation...dreaming occurs during the REM (rapid-eye-movement) cycle and at this point the body is paralysed, all apart from breathing equipment and the eyes. This is to stop the body physically acting out its dreams. Nightmares occur when the dreams basically overlap into the non-REM cycle (non-rapid-eye-movement), it is at this point that people sleep walk or talk.\nDuring these experiments, participants were woken as soon as they fell into REM sleep (dream sleep), this stopped them from having dreams. Participants reported that they felt as if they had had no sleep, they eventually started having hallucinations...the body was having dreams during the period that they were awake, they overlapped into the conscious mind, such was the physical need to have dreams.\nNo-one actually knows why people (and animals) have dreams, but researchers have acknowledged their significance in human evolution.
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Freud interpreted dreams as being symbolic manifestations of subconscious desires which were too dangerous to face up to in their real form.\nHowever, these days, most psychologists are more likely to believe that dreams are either random triggerings of old memories, thoughts, and perceptions; or somehow the brain's way of sorting out the important stuff from the rubbish.\nThere is no 100% accepted theory of why we dream, but in general, the idea of "dream interpretation" is mostly disregarded these days.
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I dream of people all the time... people from my past, and present. Sometimes they're good, and sometimes they're not... but usually they're just really weird, like it mixes people and places that never actually had any association