While we sleep, millions of dreams are produced. Only a select few are remembered. Some dreams are emotional, reoccurring or paralysis. This all depends on one’s mindset prior to sleeping. Dreams are usually a collaboration of different things you saw, did or heard throughout the week. There are a lot of different dreams!
Emotional dreams are our most common ones. These vary between exciting, upsetting, scary, or stressful dreams. When someone dreams of happiness, that initially indicates this person is currently satisfied with all that is happening in their life. Experiencing a sad dream is the result of: loneliness reminiscing on past memories or the feeling of failure. If you were to have a storm occurring, this is due to chaos in your life. Chaos can include relationships, schoolwork, jobs, or money. I will dream about tornadoes ripping through the city and not being able to take shelter. Then we have nightmares. These are the scary side of dreams. We all had a few of these in our lives. Some are extremely terrifying and others just make no sense! These can also relate back to stress in your life. There are a few other symptoms of nightmares as well.
Can dreams predict the future? I would say no. Dreams most defiantly will drop hints. Short story: my mother had a dream she was going to meet someone named Marc. One night she went out with her friends, mainly because of the dream. Turned out she did meet this Marc guy and the rest is history! So if you ever get those hints – do not take them for granted!
Reoccurring dreams relate back to our emotions. Some of my dreams occurred over, and over again. These are either the exact same dream or a dream that needs to be finished. Dreams like these will occur when we have tasks that need to be done, we are scared/nervous of something or even “your inability to cope with something in your life.’
Lucid dreams are ones we have full control over. During the creation of the dream, certain individuals are capable of two specific actions. This person can either wake him or herself or “become an active participant in their own dreams, making decisions in their dreams and influencing the dream’s outcome without awakening.”
Ever feel like you’re falling when you first go to sleep? This is actually your mind and body transitioning into sleep mode from being awake. In contrast to the “overlap state.” Between the “REM stage and waking stage of sleep” is when a paralysis dreams occurs. I certainly do not like these dreams at all. It will diminish your control i.e. no sight, speaking or hearing can be done within the dream. According to the Huffington Post, this type of dream could also mean the person lacks control in his or her “awake life.” Paralysis dreams are rare and in that sense does not happen to everyone. There is no need to be concerned if you have this sort of dream. It is usually just our body not progressing through the sleep process smoothly.
Interesting Fact: If you do not remember you dreams, then this is a sign of a good nights rest.
Being that we are all here in college, rest is not a bad idea! Appreciate it when you can!
More types of dreams listed here.
Rana,
That was an interesting article. I liked this quote from Kevin McCaffrey because it does make us think.. is this another world? Is it the “real world”? What should we take from out dreams? All those questions.
“On the other hand, for those who have had traumatic experiences in dreams and have been able to console themselves with the thought that they weren’t real… Well, they might not be able to say that anymore.”
The example of your mother meeting a guy named Marc is an anecdote that does not prove that dreams are for real. However, I was still curious about this subject so I did some of my own research. The Boston Harvard Medical School conducted a study which concluded that dreams were real based on the evidence. “the scientists detailed how they monitored a number of participants during various stages of sleep, and gave them complex tasks, such as bringing objects from the dream world back to the ‘real’ world. They said it first became apparent that dreams were real when subjects successfully managed to retrieve a number of items, including a comb, a lantern and a baby dragon.”
Studies serve as the standard of proof and not anecdotes.
http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/dreams-are-real-say-scientists/