Synchronized Fluctuations of the Dreamtime World

[hvw]

autologik and I both dreamed of peer acceptance last night, in strikingly similar context. This is the kind of thing that makes it hard to believe that dreams don't signify anything beyond excess mental energy

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[autologik]

I should probably mention that my dream had more coeds trying to kiss me than yours probably did.

[hvw]

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[smjayman]

1. No.

2. I believe similar ones on occasion.

3. Not that I remember.

I believe that dreams are your subconscious' attempt to categorize and understand all sorts of things that have happened to you. I think there are things about the mind we don't understand and may never understand. The full significance of dreams may be one of those things.

I think that for the most part, dreams are only really significant to the individual that had them. I don't bother talking about my dreams for that very reason, they just seem lame to most everybody else but me, I'm guessing.

[hvw]

I love hearing about dreams. The less reasonable, the better. It's very common to feel silly talking about dreams, because what as making sense to your sleeping brain often doesn't articulate well from the waking brain, but I still think it's nifty.

At least two people I've met have strongly expressed that they absolutely do NOT want to hear about any dream they were in, that someone else had.

[224215152]

Weird, I love hearing about any (non-sexual) cameos I've had. It always amuses me.

[revelgrove]

I think they're your subconscious's way of getting across the stuff you're not getting when it tries to tell you when you're awake.

[hvw]

Yay! We're acceptable & desirable! ;) People like us, and gosh-darn-it, we're OK.

I do find it odd that we had the same subconscious expression in the same night.

[revelgrove]

Yeah, but y'all are in vacation-mode over there right now, right? So you've probably been experiencing a lot of the same things through different brains....

[midnightsrain]

I think that sometimes the excess mental stuff rolling around in my brain will have a direct effect on the types of dreams I will have. ex: when a person dreams about their job, or possibly when their mind replays something that may have occurred at work that day; possibly an unresolved situation.

I have never had the exact same dream as another person during the same night. I have had dreams that contained some of the same elements occurring in the same time frame.

Once when I was younger, I had the same recurring dream of a vision of my headstone with my date of death clearly visible. This happened almost nightly for several months. You can bet that when that day arrived, I locked myself inside and stayed away from any sharp objects! (That's just one weird example)

[wbenetti]

I think that there is some spooky action at a distance in effect, because I've had vaguely remembered dreams that nearly accurately prognosticated situations that i've experienced in real life.

[224215152]

Yeah, I've occasionally had a weird sense of deja vu, that I've dreamed about the situation I'm currently experiencing. Oddly enough, it's always something totally mundane, like a particular quality of light and conversation at lunch. Brain chemicals are weird!