Thread: eyes splitting

That sounds really weird.
According to one dream dictionary I have been referring to, "To see your own reflection in a mirror suggests that you are pondering thoughts about your inner self. The reflection in the mirror is how you perceive yourself or how you want others to see you. You may be contemplating on strengthening and changing aspects of your character."

And about eyes:
To see your own eyes in your dream, represents enlightenment, knowledge, comprehension, understanding, and intellectual awareness. Unconscious thoughts may be coming onto the surface.
To dream that you have something in your eye represents obstacles in your path. Alternatively, it may represent your critical view and how you tend to see faults in others.
To dream that your eyes are injured or closed, suggests your refusal to see the truth about something or the avoidance of intimacy. You may be expressing feelings of hurt, pain or sympathy.
To dream that you have crossed eyes, denotes that you are not seeing straight with regards to some situation. You may be getting your facts mixed up.

Since I don't know your situation, I can't help much more. I hope, though, that this gives you some idea/flash of insight.

Being a dream, it probably doesn't mean anything. Most likely, it was just random - maybe caused by something you saw or read earlier in the day, but with no grand or secret meaning behind it.

my question is if dreams are random and mean nothing then why is there a dream interpretation section and why are you in it if you indeed believe dreams mean nothing

Originally Posted by mindwanderer

my question is if dreams are random and mean nothing then why is there a dream interpretation section and why are you in it if you indeed believe dreams mean nothing

Well, obviously because some people believe that dreams mean something.

I never said dreams were completely random and meaningless, I'm just saying that I wouldn't look for some sort of moral or higher message in a dream unless you think your subconscious is that adept at creating secret messages. Dreams are important to notice, I think, simply because they are a representation of everything we expect to happen. Whatever happens in a dream is what you unconsciously expect to happen, and therefore whatever people do in your dreams is what your subconscious thinks they would do in real life.

You can learn a lot about how you see people through dreams, because you often register parts of their character subconsciously without really realizing it. Perhaps your eyes split because you have some subconscious fear of going blind, or you watched a horror movie involving a lizard earlier, or you just have some strange subconscious fear of mirrors.

There's plenty of meaning in there, but I don't think you should start saying things like "well, if the mirror represents my inner child, and my eyes represent the innocence of my soul..." etc. Your subconscious is pretty rudimentary and would not likely create such complex layers of meaning. It's just making whatever it expects to happen, happen.

Well we are all entitled to our own opinions, but It's a shame really that some give such liitle credit to the powers of the mind, how it works and what it can do. I wrote an article of the month about two weeks ago and you may want to check it out Gnome with an open mind. It relates directly to what you said. I'm not saying you have to believe it of course, but atleast consider it.

http://visionsthruthenight.googlepag...icleofthemonth

Now as to your dream MW, very interesting. I know what many dream dictionaries say about mirrors, but there are so many other things symbols can be then the 2 descriptions listed in these dictionaries for a symbol especially one as complex as a mirror. For people to assume that these are the only meanings is useless. Symbols depend on so many other factors and elements within a dream, but lets start at the beginning.

You start by looking into a mirror and your eyes start to change until they become little reptillian type slits. Incidentally this used to be my avatar for forums for quite some time.

The slits then open and close (focusing in and out presumably) startling you into waking up. Short and sweet I guess uh?

Many people believe the eyes are the windows to our souls. The soul being our higher or deeper self. In your dream the windows to your higher self were changing suggesting a transition in your life that you are in or soon to be in come the near future. The mirror probably denoting that you are reflecting on this issue and the fact that you woke up afraid probably suggests that this issue is something you are afraid to deal with or wish to put off. Only you will know the "issue". This could be any number of things. A change of carreer or courses, a change of location or partner or even a change in sexuality. I'm sre you would know it if you gave it some thought.

Now on an even more profound level let's assume that your deeper self or powers of reasoning are looking into the mirror and we all know what happens. The image is shot back. We've all heard of feedback and have even no doubt witnessed it at some time in our life. In music, the sound being projected into the mic comes out amplified where it returns to the mic and is repeated over and over in a perpetual loop. This also happens with a camcorder hooked up to your tv when you point the recorder at the screen and you get a never ending image of the TV screen. And you may have seen it with a mirror as well. If you angle a mirror at another one then it will repeat the image infinitely. In this case the "issue" looking at the mirror being shot back to the issue and repeating. What I am suggesting is that you may already be dealing with this issue and your dream is trying to tell you that the issue is stagnating and stuck in an endless loop and until you confront and resolve it then you are never going to find peace with it and move on.

As usual this is MY interpretation and you are free to accept it or dismiss it, but in my defense, I have analyzed a lot of dreams over the years and I have yet to have a person tell me that I couldn't be further from the truth. What I like to do is help people so I am hoping that some of this will make sense to you and that I have helped you as well.

Take care and good luck.

thanks for the replies, but its hard to explain. It wasn't my iris changing shape, my sclera was overlapping my iris and pupil.....anyways thanks for the help

That's ok MW. The main thing is your eyes were changing and you were looking into a mirror. That's pretty symbolic, but the sclera thing? hehehe I'll leave that to the optomotrists. Kinda reminds me of the all white demon eyes you sometimes see in movies.

Anyhow, good luck.

Originally Posted by Vision

That's ok MW. The main thing is your eyes were changing and you were looking into a mirror. That's pretty symbolic,

Now hold on there for a minute!

Dreams are created by our subconscious, right? So, if he didn't know of this symbolism you've attributed to eyes and mirrors beforehand, his subconscious couldn't possibly have incorporated that symbolism into a dream.

Your subconscious is not a separate entity. It does not 'try to tell you things'. You can, however, derive some meaning from dreams simply by figuring out why your subconscious expected something to happen. (this is, of course, assuming that dreams are simply a series of events that your subconscious expects to happen, according to its model of the world as you know it)

If you have some sort of symbolic meaning that you attribute to mirrors, and your subconscious incorporates that into your dreams, that's fine. However, this is subjective symbolism. Unless you are implying some objective symbolic meaning for mirrors and eyes, there's no way you can tell someone else what their dreams 'mean' by using your own personal system. They may have their own perception of the importance of mirrors and eyes, and that would be what the dream was based on.

If you study some list of symbolism, and come to believe it yourself, then it is possible that they may become incorporated into your dreams - they would be a part of your world model. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Right?

there is a way to stop dreaming, as a choice.

before you sleep, go back from the current moment in time, and recount the day in slow motion reverse, up until the moment you woke up the previous night.

after waking up, use the same technique with your dreams, aside from giving you excellent recall, i have heard through this (it is a meditation technique) technique, that you can stop dreaming.

i think that might say a small bit on why we might possibly dream.

Originally Posted by thegnome54

Now hold on there for a minute!

Dreams are created by our subconscious, right? So, if he didn't know of this symbolism you've attributed to eyes and mirrors beforehand, his subconscious couldn't possibly have incorporated that symbolism into a dream.

Your subconscious is not a separate entity. It does not 'try to tell you things'. You can, however, derive some meaning from dreams simply by figuring out why your subconscious expected something to happen. (this is, of course, assuming that dreams are simply a series of events that your subconscious expects to happen, according to its model of the world as you know it)

If you have some sort of symbolic meaning that you attribute to mirrors, and your subconscious incorporates that into your dreams, that's fine. However, this is subjective symbolism. Unless you are implying some objective symbolic meaning for mirrors and eyes, there's no way you can tell someone else what their dreams 'mean' by using your own personal system. They may have their own perception of the importance of mirrors and eyes, and that would be what the dream was based on.

If you study some list of symbolism, and come to believe it yourself, then it is possible that they may become incorporated into your dreams - they would be a part of your world model. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Right?

Yes! Exactly what I was thinking. Now I have nothing to say.