Dream Decoding
 

Anyone know how to do it? Had a weird dream last night which seems to be on my mind a little bit :eek:

Andy

Yup - listen to somebody's dream and make some stuff up that sounds convincing, same principal as astrology.

Do some reading of REM and dreams from respectable scientific sources, they are more a case of your brain suffling about the data is has assimilated than some spooky way of looking in to the future.

I'd love to know what my dreams have got to do with my brain sorting through input!

Have a read up on "lucid dreaming". It is believe that some people can influence the "direction" of their dreams. I suspect there is a degree of sub-conscious data sorting mixed with conscious interpretation and influencing going on.

Olly,

Yeah I'd agree with you on this - I've never thought that it was some way of reading the future. More an indication of what and how your brain is assimilating what is currently going on :)

Been doing some reading on the net - one part of my dream had an airplane that crashed, which according to one source claimed the following.....

"To dream that a plane crashes, suggests that you have set overly high and unrealistic goals for yourself. Your goals may be too high and are impossible to realize. You are in danger of having it come crashing down. Alternatively, your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt toward the goals you have set for yourself is represented by the crashing airplane; you do not believe in your ability to attain those goals. Loss of power and uncertainty in achieving your goals are also signified"

At the end of last week my Line Manager and I were agreeing on my objectives for 2005 - wonder whether my brain thinks I've over cooked myself :D

Andy

I can change the direction of my dreams when I am aware I am dreaming, I can dream within a dream, eg I'm dreaming, and the character I am in the dream then goes to sleep and they dream.

There are times when I try and change the course of a dream but it just wont let me do it. The brain always seems to bring up a new block.

Going to do a search on Lucid dreaming.

I wouldn't read too much in to the dream interpretation, it seems very wooley to me, bit like spirit readings and astrology, leave it loose enough and anybody can read something in to it.

Sounds to me like that is what you are doing, you may well find it interesting

I rarely remember my dreams but I had a really weird one (no not that sort ;)) this morning just before the alarm went off. It also involved aircraft amoungst other things. I doubt anyone could make any sense of it, I was questioning my own sanity for a while after waking from it :D Must lay off the homebrew :)

That's what I usually blame it on but I haven't had any since Saturday night.... unless it was a delayed reaction? :D

OK, been looking into Lucid Dreaming, I can do it from time to time, don't always realise I can do it, but still do it on a subconcious level.

I also remember lot's of other dreams regardless. Hmmm.

I DON'T want to remember these dreams, I wake feeling tired and irritable. I am fed up remembering dreams, people on the Lucid forums are trying to remember their dreams :cuckoo: and control them more. :eek2:

Has anyone got any ideas on how I can sleep without remembering my dreams?

I had one patch of a couple of weeks just before I got made redundant when they stopped. Next day after the meeting they were back. :(

My whole day suffers as a result of my dreaming, lethargic all day, not helping my depression and ruining my attempts down the gym.

I want rid of these f*cking dreams.

No idea, I very rarely can remember my dreams and I am odd anyway in that they aren't usually visually driven but more by touch.

REM sleep seems to be considered necessary, however you do need your deep un-interrupted sleep as well. I wonder if you are not falling in to that "deep" sleep which is making the tiredness and irritability worse? I am no doctor, but it may be worth having a chat with yours, or try and over the counter remedy like Nightol or whatever.

I've heard certain "herbal" remedies are quite good for increasing the amount of deep sleep you have ;)

I've spoken to my Doctor, Shrink and Councellor, so far no one has come up with any ideas. :Brickwall: I am probably going to try nytol. If that doesn't help I will try Graz's 'Hebal' route.

My dreams only ever seem to last like 5 seconds, always seem a bit short in fact most of them are just 2 or 3 images and its over.

Last night I dreamt that I was going to get f*cked up the *rse by my ex mother-in-law and a family division judge.


Guess what happened today.

You got a sore botty today!