Thread: 2 Dreams that I would appreciate Interpretations, any help is appreciated.

1st dream:
Someone is sneeking around (the back door) trying to get things from, about you, (thief). You may or may not know this person. maybe a coworker, jealous friend, ex lover, or just a stranger really trying to steal from you, Could be a dream to warn you about the future, where you park your car; in the business district...

I'm lousy at interpreting my own dreams.

A very good book is by Robert Moss "Conscious Dreaming" tells many aspects of dream interpretation, and dreaming overall. The best i've read.

Originally Posted by kulananda

Could be a dream to warn you about the future, where you park your car; in the business district...

Do you seriously believe that it is possible for dreams to 'warn you about the future'?

In Robert Moss's book he clearly shows it is possible for dreams to tell the future.

Originally Posted by kulananda

In Robert Moss's book he clearly shows it is possible for dreams to tell the future.

Really? Was this actually in a controlled environment, or just him saying it was so?

I think it is possible to tell the future using dreams. I don't think i have done it. I'm not into dream interpretation per se. I suggest you read books, and dream, get other peoples experiences and then decide for yourself.

Right, but you said that Robert Moss 'clearly shows' that it's possible. Assuming you read this book, how did he do this?

He held dream workshops and people relate and interpret their dreams and have followup sessions, and he also does this through his personnal accounts. Its up to you whether you place any value on his accounts and dream workshop participants testimonials

It is absolutely possible for dreams to warn one about the future. Dreams come in many different types, warnings are just one of them.

There is obviously no way for us to record dreams, and it would be very difficult to quantify their predictive qualities even if we could. As such, it's impossible at this point to get real evidence one way or the other. However, for dreams to predict the future would require a good deal of our basic scientific knowledge to be incorrect. A more plausible hypothesis might be that dreams (which we experience multiple times every single night of our lives) occasionally happen to coincide with future events, and these result in anecdotes which can sound quite convincing when you don't consider the billions of non-predictive human dreams. Another possibility which is not mutually exclusive is that our subconscious, a system which has presumably evolved in part to help us predict the behavior of the world around us, is capable of occasionally presenting us with possible future events in dream form. These constructions would be accurate a small percentage of the time, adding to the anecdotes mentioned previously. Neither of these would constitute a dream 'telling us about the future'. If it doesn't seem obvious to you that it is much more likely for those possibilities to be true than for dreams to actually predict the future, then I would argue that you are accepting an extraordinary claim in the absence of extraordinary evidence, and violating Occam's Razor. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am saying that you are being irrational.

I have recorded my dreams by journaling them for the last 35 years. They are usually road maps for where one is heading given if one stays on the present path they are taking. Some dreams warn, some compliment, some are like report cards and some are valuable messages. I choose to live using both sides of my brain, the intuitive as well as the intellectual. If you were to journal Your dreams for the next 35 years, take them seriously and learn the dream language, you might just find yourself changing your mind, or not.

Humans are pattern-seeking animals. We can very easily manufacture meaning to find in meaningless or vague content. Think about astrology - newspapers publish one vague, generic message and hundreds of people presumably find that it is meaningful or relevant to their specific lives. Here's an example of this in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw

It's not an issue of using 'one side of your brain or another', it's a matter of requiring reasonable amounts of evidence before accepting ideas as truth. You say '35 years' as if it makes your anecdotal evidence somehow stronger. However, it's not a matter of quantity but quality. Nothing you have said about your dreams is inconsistent with either of the two possibilities I put forth in my last post. On what basis are you rejecting those hypotheses and accepting your own?

There was a time when I believed dreams were meaningless, so I began to study them. 35 years later I have not a "belief" in them, but a "knowledge" of them. If you come here to debate the subject, I see no point because I have already proven it to myself. You choose your own path and I choose mine.

Maybe most people seek patterns, those who move through life as part of mass consciousness and who do not open their minds to other possibilities. You find those people in dream language...."Riding the bus" or some other means of mass transit.