We all live two mental lives. When we are awake it is mostly ordered, rational, linear and bounded by rules, both behavioral and physical. When we are asleep it is chaotic, nonlinear, without rules, often without sense.
According to some, dreams are nothing more than the byproduct of a brain disconnected from its normal sensory inputs, freewheeling its way through the night. To others, dreams denote night-time learning or problem-solving, even automatic sifting of the mind’s detritus – useless information to be skimmed off the surface and dumped like so much mental junk.
Amongst the general public, though, there are much stronger beliefs about the power of dreams. So strong that, according to recent research, people seem to believe that dreams can predict the future.
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To label “Freudian” the idea that “dreams reveal buried truths about the self” gets the research and article off to a bad start. That dreams are meaningful is not just a Freudian view– it is the view of most cultures, of Carl Jung, Medard Boss, and many, many others…. Maybe one of the reasons that people believe that dreams are meaningful is because they are; this biased research assumes they are not….Our current President talked about two of his dreams in “Dreams From my Father”; they were hardly irrelevant and meaningless in his life…. How about an article highlighting some of the overwhelming evidence with the other point of view, that dreams are meaningful.
One of the most common dreams we have is the flying dream.After having one of these dreams I wake up feeling rested and wanting to get back to it as soon as posible.When we are flying we tend to stay close to the earth,and get scared when we fly too high.Does that mean anything?Who cares!!!