Do you believe dreams hold meaning or symbolism?
Woke up in bed, turned off the alarm, went to bathroom, brushed teeth…
Then the damned alarm went off and I woke up in bed, but for real.
Happens way too often that I have to slog through multiple boring morning routines before actually getting to start my day.
I killed my father and slept with my mother. Probably doesn’t mean anything.
Just one of those pesky Freudian slips. Thinking of one thing but dreaming your mother :P
Back in grad school, but in NYC for some reason. Doing a shitty job, fucking up assignments that are 3rd grader level math. I’m doing it all on paper which I never did and then lost my entire brief bag when it somehow fell off a bus I was riding. Called wife to tell her that I couldn’t do it anymore, lost all my notes, papers, assignments and would not be able to recover it all to pass semester.
Grad school was more than 15 years ago. I was in NYC somewhat recently and did go to the wrong address for a meeting and was late as a consequence.
Nfi.
Dreams are just the brain sorting out memories, and they often get jumbled which is why they are generally surreal. I have had friends who were lucid dreamers, they just had more intentional purpose to their memory sorting.
I generally don’t remember dreams, like maybe a few a year. As in waking up occasionally means knowing what I was just dreaming about, and rarely having that stick more than a few minutes.
My most recent memorable dreams were a few weeks ago and involved zombies and the people around me doing the absolute most ridiculous stuff to get themselves bitten. Not scary really, just frustrating. Warched a few zombie movies a few days prior and then had some people around me make boneheaded decisions so I am guessing my brain was sorting those two unrelated things. Don’t remember the details of what the people were doing in the dream, just that it was stupid and resulted in getting bit.
I also think dreams are snippets of our minds running in the background that sometimes get patched together in odd ways :D
They can be influenced by recent events or things you think about often.
Lucid dreaming is like a real-life superpower. I wish I was able to do it.
I’ve always thought of it as the brain defragging. That said, I have had a couple where I really felt like the deceased family member was dropping by to say hello. These feel different from the ones where they may appear as a character in my dream, like an extra in a movie. I’m not lucid for those.
Last week it was my mom’s birthday. I hadn’t dreamed of her in a while, but I do think of her daily so I don’t ascribe dreaming of her just because she was on my mind during the day. The night of her birthday she was in my dream.
When I get a family visit, it does tend to end up being a semi lucid dream. I know in the dream that this person is no longer living and this is a visit. But I can’t control the direction of the dream.
So in the dream, I’m aware I haven’t seen her in some time and am very happy to see her. She was also saying how much she has missed me, and was uncharacteristically clingy. Just wanting to cuddle. She knocked me down even to cuddle. She was a tiny woman and I am not.
Then on my other side, my cat that passed 2 years ago decided she wanted to come cuddle too. I didn’t dream of my mom’s calico (whom I also fostered for some years while mom went through a rough spot). This was my calico. Mom never met her. But there they both were visiting at the same time.
It. Felt. So. Good.
I was sad to wake up.
My dog of 14 years passed away in April, and i haven’t really mourned him like i should. I keep having a recurring dream where he’s alive, and I’m mad at everyone who said he was dead. I wasn’t there in the end, life circumstances made me send him to my “parents” house, where he passed peacefully of natural causes.
I also have nightmares that feature my sperm-donor more often than I’d like.
Edit: I believe dreams are a window into the subconscious, but they aren’t exactly reliable or “meaningful”, other than a “huh, that was weird…”.
I hope that you can find peace and closure 🫂
No. I am convinced that dreams are brain training towards scenarios that may or may not become relevant one day.
Last night I dreamt about being at an airport, unsure about where and when my connecting flight was. Surprisingly realistic, considering how often I fly, but unrealistic in the sense that I always know this beforehand and always carry with me a small paper note listing the following:
- Flight number
- When
- From-To
- Estimated landing time
- Booking code
I had nightmares about my supervisor criticizing me. :( She is a bully and no one ever cares or does anything about it. I am asking to be put on a shift that overlaps her less and am being given a hard time about the accomodation because I occasionally react poorly when she bullies me.
I’m sorry you’re having nightmares about your bully. I had a work bully and still have occasional nightmares with them in it too. When I wake up, I tell that person (in my mind) to fuck off. I wish one of these would end up being lucid, so I can tell them in the dream itself. But this helps.
I’m sorry you have to deal with with bullies and I hope your shift change creates a healthier work atmosphere for you 🫂
Thank you very much. I am having to fight hard for the shift change because they are really pushing back on it. I am going to keep trying though. They let me have a trial period for one week at least.
I dunno, I forget dreams easily if I have them, but I rarely have dreams, it seems like I just switch off and everything is dark.
