(May 12, 2018 at 11:44 pm)Magilla Wrote:(May 12, 2018 at 8:32 pm)Quick Wrote: Don't know if this is the right section, but there is no psychology section (which is a shame really) so I will post it here.
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If anyone has any interpretations to these dreams, I'd love to hear your take on them.
As I understand it, dreams are highly personal and peculiar to the dreamer. The content can be analysed, but it is the dreamer who is best disposed to do it. But it may not be easy. You need to know yourself. The dream may contain elements which you may not recognise, or you may be able to recognise, if you think of them the right way. I'd suggest that if you don't recognise these elements, you may not be thinking of them the right way.
The elements may be concocted into a narrative, or linked up into a surreal sequence. But, I am suggesting, the elements in there are identifiable, if you think of them in the right way. The elements that I have identified in my own dreams are all creations of my own brain, so there are no spooky supernatural predictions in them.
The elements are derived from things which have happened to you, figures of speech, mottoes, personal pet phrases and the like. For example, if your mother, (in your waking life), calls or called you a 'cheeky little monkey', then a diminutive monkey doing odd things, may just be a reference to yourself. It may be that your mother hasn't called you a cheeky monkey for a long time, yet the phrase, and your possession of it as a description of yourself, has stayed resident in your mind. The odd things that the monkey is getting up to may be references to things which happened over the last 24 hours, or maybe longer.
When a dream contains the diminutive monkey, it may not occur to you that it is a reference to the figure of speech applied to you at one time, probably repeatedly by your mother. But if it's right, when you make the connection, you go: "Aha ! That's it !" It's unlikely that I could interpret that for you. It's too personal and unique to your own memory and brain, for me to come up with that interpretation. It is likely, IMHO, that since your brain concocts a dream, it is something in you brain coming up in the dream . . . therefore, to me things in your dreams, of no significance, seem to be unlikely. That doesn't mean that you will always understand what the the significance is, (as your request in the OP tells us).
Just think of some of the things which might be smacked together to make a dream. Here's a few, some are things which happen, some are figures of speech, some are feelings etc.
You're a cheeky monkey; Happiness is a warm gun; I dropped my cup and broke it today; Sally broke my heart; You say 'Amen' in church; All men are bastards; I hate spinach; Spuds are vegetables with Irish connotations; Murphy is an Irish name; I have a pet hamster called Murphy; I call my spouse 'twiddles' as a pet name; My son widdles in his bed; My Dad twiddles his fingers when he's thinking; My Dad has big ears, like Prince Charles does; Republicans are symbolised with the elephant; Publicans sounds like Republicans; Publicans are dealers in pleasure, (if you like a drink - maybe misery if your spouse is an alcoholic); I threw up today; My son is a great fielder, and throws the ball up high and far . . .
I have put these elements as, (fictitious), suggestions, and tried to show how association may be made in the mind. So in dreams, one thing may be present as a symbol of another. There are symbols which are public, like the Republican Party elephant. Some symbols are private, like your self identification with cheeky monkey. Some experiences may be public, like the volcanic eruptions in Hawaii, some experiences are more private, like you dropping your cup. An elephant in a dream may represent alcohol, by association of Republican, publican and drinking. But that'll only be true, if that is part of your own brain, you way of thinking, and in your memory, even if hard to recall or link up in waking life, after the dream.
Your brain can make up weird and wonderful imagery, using these elements. Dreams may incorporate the elements as pictures, or words, (maybe words you seem to hear). Sounds may come into play as well. It is you who is in the best position to know what the symbology in use is. So what do the elements in a dream mean to you - even if disguised to some degree or another, in symbols or figures of speech, idioms, pet phrases, experiences etc.
I don't think that dreams have to make sense in the way that a story might make sense if you were writing a story in a book. But you can still analyse your dreams and identify the elements. Your brain is doing re-organising, and making-and-breaking connections, (I'd suggest). Suppose you have to mow the lawn tomorrow. It may be that the fact of lawn mowing being imminent may get woven somehow into a dream, possibly in disguise or maybe overtly, and possibly surrounded by loads of other surreal symbology.
I wouldn't really feel competent to analyse your dream for you. Can you recognise anything in your dreams, in the light of what I'm suggesting?
Toodle-pip,
Magilla.
Dreams are really nothing to analyze outside the bad ones being a signal of some sort of stress triggered by something in your waking life. They are not anything magical at all. Your dreams do not predict the future, they don't allow one to talk to the dead. People who think they are more than just dreams, suffer from selection bias and sample rate error. In one's lifetime you have countless dreams you do not remember and those outnumber the far fewer you do remember.
As a kid, not knowing what i know now, I used to have a reoccurring dream after watching a kid's movie "Escape From Witch Mountain". Everything scared me back then. That reoccurring nightmare I had almost every other month was because I was sensitive, impressionable and also had to do with being bullied too. When one is stressed or scared and superstitious your dreams can really fuck with you.
But, now that I am older and wiser, when I have a bad dream, I don't try to analyze it, I just say, "I had a bad dream".
I've also had some really good dreams too, manly about having sex with a attractive female.
I also long ago, realized that when I woke up in the middle of the night, good or bad dream, would look at the TV I left on, and realize my brain was interacting with the TV.
Dreams are not "symbolic" one bit. They are merely a physical reaction to stresses and or desires, both good and bad. And you already said it, "imaginary".
Again, the ones that one should focus on when they remember them, are the bad ones. Those can be a REAL indicator of anxiety and stress that you may not be aware of in your day to day life.
Humans make up fiction in their waking lives, dreams are merely the same thing while you sleep.
