Interpreting dreams

[LinktheDeme]

I had a really weird dream and I never actually care about what they mean. However, I am just really intrigued by this dream and if anyone actually knows what it means I would be greatly appreciative.

Essentially it was me with going out drinking with my 3 best friends throughout my life from gradeschool, highschool and parts of college, and then my roomate and ultimately my new best friend I would say. We all went out to buy some alcohol and so other shit and ended up going to a party. My roommate ended up disappearing at the party and I tried figuring out where he went like 10 times by calling no answer. Eventually he texted that he went to a different bar (Orange, which strikes me odd now that I think about it because at school we go to a bar called Blue which is weird).

Anyway he said he left without us and I was like wtf whyd you just ditch us all and he was just like sorry (and he's never really like this at all in real life he would at least let me know before doing something like that). Basically until the end of the dream it was me and my other 2 earlier best friends trying to walk there for a while and then I woke up really confused trying to puzzle it together.

[Not Kuno]

Your dreams are just random things you know/remember put together haphazardly.

As for your dream, no idea. D: Doubt it really means anything.

[Xno Kappa]

You want to do your mother.

[BerenTebogo]

Was under the impression that dreams are just side-effects of your brain shuffling around information making associations, storage, blah blah, the same shit a computer does to increase efficiency when you defrag it.

Not an expert, yadda.

[Ivaden]

I hate to even say anything because I'm not sure how much I believe in dream interpretation myself, but I do have a slight interest in it. Just based on the few times I've looked up interpretations for my own dreams, I'd say you're probably feeling distant from this friend that walked off, and the difference in bar names/colors might represent that something to do with your friend/dream in general is not the norm, or complete opposite of the norm (orange is opposite of blue on the color wheel lol).

I feel like a fruitcake for even saying this, but yeah.

[LinktheDeme]

I hate to even say anything because I'm not sure how much I believe in dream interpretation myself, but I do have a slight interest in it. Just based on the few times I've looked up interpretations for my own dreams, I'd say you're probably feeling distant from this friend that walked off, and the difference in bar names/colors might represent that something to do with your friend/dream in general is not the norm, or complete opposite of the norm (orange is opposite of blue on the color wheel lol).

I feel like a fruitcake for even saying this, but yeah.

well he was the person who got me into smoking lots of pot whether thats a norm or not is up to debate i guess ;o

I guess that makes sense

thx

[BerenTebogo]

well he was the person who got me into smoking lots of pot whether thats a norm or not is up to debate i guess ;o

I guess that makes sense

thx

I guess that makes sense

I guess that makes sense

Are you fucking kidding me right now?

Edit: Not gonna hi-jack this thread, but I will ask, if that makes sense to you then does the scenario where a small imp lives behind your eyes and presses the "shuffle" button on both the memories part of your brain and the imagination part of your brain at the same time also make sense?

Both theories contain the exact same number of testable hypotheses and facts.

[MoogleAura]

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You'll find some kind of meaning if you look hard enough, like people who believe in horoscopes. A dream is a dream, sometimes they are pretty interesting, most of the time they're not but I don't think they're actually telling you anything. I wouldn't worry about it.

[Sepukku]

I don't dream often, but when I do, they're usually really fucking insane and I try not to make sense of them due to the amount of thinking that would require and slightly out of fear of what the dreams may mean if I were to make sense of them. I do have one comparatively normal dream that repeats itself though, I've had this dream like a dozen times over the past couple years. Does anyone else have repeating dreams?

[OWS_Tonx]

Does anyone else have repeating dreams?

As a child I did, not recently. It was about like 3 flying witches taunting me lol, fucking weird dream I had like every other night since I was 5 until I was about 8.

[isladar]

I don't dream often, but when I do

All posts in this thread must now start with this statement.

[Kuya]

I skipped the chapter on the neurophysiology of dreams, so take this as a grain of salt that is bigger than all the other grains of salt: Interpreting dreams is bullshit. Note i did not say that dreams mean nothing (to you), just that the practice of interpreting them is full of shit.

[kuronosan]

I like to interpret dreams once in a while, but honestly the only ones that tend to have relevant meaning are the ones which are abstract.

There is a lot of symbolism in dreams, which your subconscious uses to make sense of the world while it's cramming the day (week, or month) into your memory.

Dreams tend to be weird because you aren't actively using your brain to interpret, it's doing it on its own (which is why they feel so insane or odd). For example, going out and drinking with your friends could represent a desire to go out drinking with your friends, or you could have just gone drinking, or it could mean nothing.

They're just too open for interpretation for it to mean anything significant, unless they're repetitive. Then they generally represent an underlying event that may require close, conscious attention.

For example, I just had a dream before I woke up this morning about my classmates in medical school studying for a big exam and wanting to smoke a big bowl of meth while lighting a joint. There was one female classmate I thought would listen to me, but in the end they all ended up doing it as I walked off. Then I woke up.

This could mean many things, or it could mean nothing. One literal interpretation is that based on my stress lately I feel like nobody listens to me. It could also mean that my classmates do their own thing despite my role as class president and regardless of my advice they continue to make mistakes that could cost them. It could also be because I talked to my mom earlier about my brother, who was a meth-head.

See where this is going?

[BerenTebogo]

I like to interpret dreams once in a while, but honestly the only ones that tend to have relevant meaning are the ones which are abstract.

There is a lot of symbolism in dreams, which your subconscious uses to make sense of the world while it's cramming the day (week, or month) into your memory.

Dreams tend to be weird because you aren't actively using your brain to interpret, it's doing it on its own (which is why they feel so insane or odd). For example, going out and drinking with your friends could represent a desire to go out drinking with your friends, or you could have just gone drinking, or it could mean nothing.

They're just too open for interpretation for it to mean anything significant, unless they're repetitive. Then they generally represent an underlying event that may require close, conscious attention.

For example, I just had a dream before I woke up this morning about my classmates in medical school studying for a big exam and wanting to smoke a big bowl of meth while lighting a joint. There was one female classmate I thought would listen to me, but in the end they all ended up doing it as I walked off. Then I woke up.

This could mean many things, or it could mean nothing. One literal interpretation is that based on my stress lately I feel like nobody listens to me. It could also mean that my classmates do their own thing despite my role as class president and regardless of my advice they continue to make mistakes that could cost them. It could also be because I talked to my mom earlier about my brother, who was a meth-head.

See where this is going?

I think the good message to take away from this is that interpreting dreams is like interpreting art:
It can be fun to do, it can give you new topics for discussion, and it can expand your creativity, but if you think there is any level of seriousness to biased interpretations of abstract designs you're a fucking moron.

[Tristam]

I was never much for interpreting dreams, as I have some pretty damn crazy ones myself. I had one where an army of babies pushed me off a cliff as I tried to fight them off. I had another where my parents were assassins trying to kill me as we ran around a gigantic house. I have dreams where animals attack me. I have dreams where I wake up and think spiders are all over me. They're all so different I don't think it's worth trying to make sense out of them.

I also have lots of dreams where I have sex with people I know. Not alot of interpretation needed there.

[Eratosthenes]

Does anyone else have repeating dreams?

The dreams themselves aren't repeated, but I occasionally dream about tornadoes. They aren't scary dreams, though.

Another thing that's been repeated in my dreams is sometimes I have the ability to levitate and slide across the air, as if I'm riding an invisible skateboard.

[Weiing]

When I first saw this post, I thought of Inception. I expected more jabs at it...

Dreams are just dreams, honestly. I don't know why people like to interpret them, other than wanting to find meaning in things. Having been a psych major and now into social work, I've been exposed to all this dream theory crap.

If you want to believe - dreams are your subconscious. All the individuals in your dreams are a projection of yourself (concept was demonstrated in Inception). So it's yourself doing something to yourself, rather than the actual person you're dreaming of interacting with you.

Ugh, I feel kind of dirty just explaining that.

I do have a lot of repeated dreams.
I actually have a lot of zombie dreams that when I know they're zombie dreams, I try my best to wake up and dream something else. I blame my zombie dreams on watching too many SyFy B movies.
I've dreamed about my grandfather saying he was okay the night he died and before I even knew he died.

Dreams are strange; strange crap happens. But eh, I don't put too much stock into them.

[Kayatani]

I don't dream often,

Arguably you do, you just don't remember it when you wake up. Dreaming is supposed to occur during REM sleep, as dream recall is typically higher for people who have been woken during REM sleep than those left to wake normally (but don't quote me on that, I'm going by memory and I'm not sure how empirically sound that study is).

You can't really confirm you don't dream unless you've gone for a snooze in an fMRI scanner.

Also this:

Interpreting dreams is bullshit. Note i did not say that dreams mean nothing (to you), just that the practice of interpreting them is full of shit.

If you enjoy guessing at dreams, go ahead, but don't pretend it's some mystic premonition or supressed desire (lol)

[Gadritan]

A couple of random questions for people that might know. This is just stuff I've heard over the years and I really have no fucking clue how valid any of it is since I've never really given it any serious thought or research.

Do you dream every night? I've always heard that you do, but it's incredibly rare that you remember it, which is tied to the next question.

Are nearly all dreams in black and white? I've also heard that the dreams you tend to remember are the ones that are in color because it's so rare. That nearly all dreams are in black and white.

Again, I've always considered these myths, so keep the nerd rage at bay here please.

[Kuya]

I've been dreaming of a white christmas.