Thread: I'm gonna have a bad dream tonight, my girl just left me.

Don't worry IZ, as we speak yours truly is actually creating a Tutorial of dream interpretation. Hopefully I will have it ready in a week or so, but it is turning out to be more work than I thought(not harder work, but just more so it will take me more than I first estimated). Anyway, wait for it...

Thats great. Anything is always helpfull.

And for the self-interpretor thing, this is true but ones self cant see the many signs that one thinks is just there for the purpose of being there, like your past being changed for the dream to make sence of the dream or music playing in the distance or even when its extremely hard to move in a dream and it takes a hard effort to move just a little bit, stuff like that one thinks is normal.

It is my belief, though don't be offended by this, that dreams aren't meant to tell you anything. They're just a load of stuff your brain felt like showing that day, but you can make links to some images to your life because that's where the brain gets images from anyway.

Well, that's just what I think.

You're probably right. I think it's the most subtle and the most affected-by events of the day that slip into your dreams, however. Which is why if you really want to have a dream about, say, banana pie (I dunno...), just focus all of your attention for the day on banana pie. Become obsessive over it. Wa'la: Dream of...banana, uh, pie. Yeah.

Actually the primary purpose of dreams is to fulfill the unconscious desire that we have, that are offensive to one's ego, therefore we do not directly fantasize about what we want, but rather our censhorship mechanism decodes them so only the subconscious will understand them, and not the conscious mind...

From the tip of my tounge...

Huh? My brain hurts.

But I do have to agree that some events in the day do effect what one dreams.

Of course they do. If I am not mistaken, in English that should be called the daily residue(?). Our brain always takes what we have experienced in the last few days and uses it as a way to fulfill your desires, while keeping it relevant to your current life. For example, the other day you had a fight with a friend. Two days later you might dream of something that has to do with him, in a unconcious effort to make up with him(in case that is what you really want, of course). You probably won't dream about you making up with him, but something that will represent that action to your subconscious mind.

Its complicated stuff, I know. But that is why I am making a tutorial ....

Well, if I were my subconscious, I wouldn't want to just sit there any do nothing while the rest of my lame-ass body takes a break. I'd need some entertainment!

But really, I think that of all of the reasons people use to explain what dreams are for are partially true; your mind is resolving internal issues, expressing things that you don't want to reveal in your waking life, all in one neat package.

So...what if a person does not want nightmares, yet continues to get nightmares every night. That's the subconscious bitch-slapping you right there.

What I've found, is that if you remain confident that you will or will not dream about something, and then just let it pass (go onto another activity), your attitude will affect your dreams. However, it can backfire. You might be subconsciously saying "it won't work" and thus, the opposite affect happens.

Then there's a subconscious "paradox", where you try to fight the subconscious, but you continue to fail, and eventually "win", discovering a way to beat (yeah right) it, yet as soon as you try it again it fails. Finally you give up and something you want you begin to dream about, and *bang* backfires next night since you decide not to care anymore.

Truth is, you can't do anything, and you can't do everything. Both ways you will be confused and contradicted.

I want to clear something up: The subconscious mind is part of our person, it is not an enemy to defeat, or an antagonist to our consciousness. It is merely what we are not completely aware of, things that we have repressed but should be able to discover consciously without that much effort. If you don't want to have nightmares but still do, its only cause you have undealt issues that need to be resolved in order for you to move on.

Don't try to beat anyone...rather try to understand the cause of it and deal with it consciously

Originally posted by Truthbearer
Actually the primary purpose of dreams is to fulfill the unconscious desire that we have, that are offensive to one's ego, therefore we do not directly fantasize about what we want, but rather our censhorship mechanism decodes them so only the subconscious will understand them, and not the conscious mind...

From the tip of my tounge...

I think you mean the censorship mechanism encodes them, otherwise it would be decoding something not encoded, right?

ARGH! I will defeat my subconscious! It does not control me!!!!

Originally posted by Kaniaz+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kaniaz)</div>

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Actually the primary purpose of dreams is to fulfill the unconscious desire that we have, that are offensive to one's ego, therefore we do not directly fantasize about what we want, but rather our censhorship mechanism decodes them so only the subconscious will understand them, and not the conscious mind...

From the tip of my tounge...

I think you mean the censorship mechanism encodes them, otherwise it would be decoding something not encoded, right?[/b]

Whatever

I would just like to let the girls know that "I'm single again Yeah!" (The Austin Powers 2 theme playing in the background)

Originally Posted by IZ

I just wanted to post a strange dream I had about my girl last night.
This isn&#39;t the dream yet: I recently drew a picture of me and her together looking all happy and stuff. I gave it to her and she kept it with a letter I wrote to her some time ago.
My dream: I&#39;m walking in a room and I see a table with some papers on the corner of it. I walk to it and I notice and realize that its the drawing I gave my girl. I thought she must have forgoten it. but as I look again at it, its a friends face on it enstead of mine. I know that she talks to him and he likes her but these drawings seems to be set up for me to find them and look at them. I felt has if I was being attacked be these drawings showing my girl and him together as a look from one to the other. I thought to myself if my girl had showed him the picture that I drew of us together and he made a counterpart by drawing one of his own and trying to scare me. But the dream ends and I realize that it was only a dream, but it seemed so real.
Why would I dream of something like this? I dont have any anger or know if my friend his mad at me? Is my councious unsure or what?
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Really? so you said I WAS UR FIRST? U bastard

It&#39;s funny, reading these old threads, I remember how Dreamviews used to be. People managed to have fun here without the bufoonery, philosophical conversations would grow out of nowhere in the middle of a thread, and there were less kids. WAY less kids.

*sigh*

Originally Posted by MSG

It&#39;s funny, reading these old threads, I remember how Dreamviews used to be. People managed to have fun here without the bufoonery, philosophical conversations would grow out of nowhere in the middle of a thread, and there were less kids. WAY less kids.

*sigh*
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Alas, those days have passed.

Ahhh, but there will always be more kids. With the growth of the internet as a form of social interaction, and the decreasing real wage of the average worker, the average adult will be able to spend less and less time on internet forums, and kids will be turning to the internet at younger ages and in greater numbers.

The implication this has for the use of the internet is profound: Take wikipedia for example. Over the past few years, the average age of contributors has been speculated to have dropped at least 4 years - this greatly affects the quality of information, and prevents the influx of new academic thought, as it is perpetually censored out by wiki editors. The philosophical spin-off this has fo...

Originally Posted by MSG

It&#39;s funny, reading these old threads, I remember how Dreamviews used to be. People managed to have fun here without the bufoonery, philosophical conversations would grow out of nowhere in the middle of a thread
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FUCK. Whoops. See how easily this shit happens?

Just rape her in your dream or something

nah, the point is: Love can sting, but new love will come. And there isn&#39;t a reason to stop being in love with life. ^_______^

Originally Posted by Neruo

Love can sting, but new love will come. And there isn&#39;t a reason to stop being in love with life.
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That sounds so fkn cheesy, it&#39;s just sick.

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love

I once had to write an essay on love in like 6th grade or something

I seriously wanted to kill my teacher

I wound up just writing about something else

Originally Posted by TweaK

That sounds so fkn cheesy, it&#39;s just sick.
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lol yeah I know. Well hey, cheese allways makes Me feel good&#33; Tastes gooood. ^__^

and man, it was more hippy then a squirell on acid.

Originally Posted by MSG

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love

I once had to write an essay on love in like 6th grade or something

I seriously wanted to kill my teacher

I wound up just writing about something else
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I luh-oove you, Micheal Shane
luhjoooove.

Yes

This world offers infinite opportunity to improve things. Yourself, your life, others&#39; lives, etc. That is something worth living for, even if they&#39;re essentially meaningless improvements in the end. After all, they&#39;re no more meaningless than death.

Of course, this whole world is indeed a dream, as dreams and waking life are (almost) the same thing (see my sig). This has little to do with the question though, because even so, you can still ask yourself if it&#39;s worth living.

G&#39;night