I'm just curious here. I don't usually remember my dreams and often they fade away. If I remember actually having a dream once a month, that's a lot for me. And if I remember details of a dream a few times a year, that's also a lot for me. The ones I do remember are truly bizarre.I don't really think they mean much. Other dreams I have seem more like a movie sequence or even a mystery. I chalk it up alot of times to having read right before bed. Do most people think that dreams are always telling us something? or can it just be like...an over active imagination?
One dream that I remember was kinda gross actually. I had these biggish black ants which were biting me because I had high cholesterol (I don't); but because I had high cholesteral, my blood was yellow and sluggish. I woke up feeling all creepy crawly (and thinking "wow. that was a bizarre dream).
RE: are dreams ever just dreams?
Hello Crystarra,
Personally I am a firm believer that dreams are never "just dreams". I always see them as a message from my unconscious mind to my conscious mind. But at times the conscious cannot cope with the message in the dream, so the dream is forgotten (not remembered).
If you start paying attention to them, you eventually will start remembering more of them.
Ants, like other insects in dreams, can mean transformation. If you see blood as your "life line" then it oculd be that something in you needs to get transformed, become more alive.
Artemis
RE: are dreams ever just dreams?
Hi Crystarra,
I have been blessed with vivid dreams for as long as i can remember so I'm with Artemis on this one.
I do not beleive dreams are ever just dreams.
Whether they are allowing you to process the days events, usually because you have not been in the moment enough to process them at the time. Whether they are symbolic of what's happening in your life or the world or/ whether they are situations or events which may come to fruition,
I too beleive dreams are a form of communication between You as you are (subconcious & concious) & You as who you are in the world.
If you remember a dream, take into account colours, feelings & smells as well as the situation. Think about what these things represent to you as well as what they may represent symbolically.
The more you listen the more communication you will receive & this applies in all aspects of life, whether it be health or even your heart.
I would like to say, however, that i have learnt not to get too caught up in dreams. Remember to always stay in the moment & enjoy your waking life.
Sweet dreams Sister
Sheoak
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RE: are dreams ever just dreams?
I can still remember most of my dreams from when I was younger because they were so real. I remember a lot. I have a pattern though most of my dreams have dark skies, cloudy rainstorm threatening ones. Its very rare I get a nice blue sky.
I can remember some nasty ones and some good ones. I also can sometimes wake up crying when I have been crying in my dream.
I find dreams fasinating but all I can tell from them is that I know why I have dreamt certain things for example once I had been thinking of a game too much and a character from that game came and we were inside the Fantasy Island pyramid at Ingoldmells, things like, also that if there is a film I have seen that really sticks in my head somehow something similar will happen and i can trace it back to that film. I can never figure out what they truely mean though [:-]