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- borez, on 01/05/2009, -3/+89Dreams are just your brain defragging.
- Cappez, on 01/05/2009, -1/+38"Usually, children have more flying dreams than adults, Norris said, because children are more open to their possibilities, and adults have often accepted limitations imposed by society."
That's pretty sad. - Totz83, on 01/05/2009, -0/+28Calcium deficiency?
- TheBeigeKnight, on 01/05/2009, -4/+21This is just *****. There is no such thing as a universal symbol in dreams, everything means different things to different people.Buried.
- Llanowar, on 01/05/2009, -0/+13That was after I met her.
- Jsmuli2, on 01/05/2009, -1/+12The fact that you are so quick to not get a joke makes me farty.
- Tophillious, on 01/05/2009, -17/+27Power user. Buried.
- Hetman, on 01/05/2009, -3/+13As far as I can tell from psychologists. Dreams have pretty much two meanings. Eithier you want to kill your father and elope with your mother or you are gay. And that is the reason I have never had a dream.
- laserdog, on 01/05/2009, -0/+10A piece of art can have different meanings to other people as well.
Personally, I'm a fan of Jung, who says that the meaning of the dream to the dreamer is the most valid interpretation. The idea being, that you are the only one with symbolic knowledge to decode the meaning. - jimboejw, on 01/05/2009, -3/+13That woman has got one massive mouth....
http://s3.amazonaws.com/newsok-photos/531087/mediu ... - Fuckmypooplease, on 01/05/2009, -1/+8Yeah, next time I get attacked by 50 giant yellow elephants whilst being armed with an ipod, i'll know exactly the right moves to make.
- MalarkeyPN, on 01/05/2009, -0/+7what's a poop lease?
- groo68, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5And it is defraging, your dreams break down and examine everything that happened to you in the day and tries to find the fastest way to solve that problem when your awake, in the same way that a hard drive puts files in the location which allows them to be accessed the fastest.
- SgtSeaCow, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5Such a massive over-simplification of one of the brain's most powerful forms of self-expression. Buried for pointlessness.
- adiggityam, on 01/05/2009, -1/+6Many psychoanalysts think that dreams involving swimming in cotton candy to Dancing Queen by Abba mean one wants to ***** thier mother. One step ahead of you, psychologists, one step ahead.
- Maynza, on 01/05/2009, -1/+6"Norris recalls of a woman who dreamed for years that an old, haggard woman was chasing her around her home. When she finally stopped in the dream and asked the old woman what she represented, the old woman suddenly turned into a beautiful young woman and replied, "I represent your question of ‘what if?’”"
Oh give me a break, that just screams of either an untrue story, or someone who buys into this ***** telling this guy what he wants to hear. - TyrannousDotNet, on 01/05/2009, -1/+5Dreams are your worst case scenario for your brain, it gives you ridiculous situations, so when you encounter a similar situation you will be a bit more mentally prepared.
- pault107, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4I often have flying dreams, mostly they're great fun. But if I'm stressed or worried about something, I have to work really hard to stay in the air - not fun.
- Llanowar, on 01/05/2009, -1/+5No way!
My brain runs Linux. - Ladycomet, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3Dreams are totally subjective. A car in a dream is not the universal representation of your body. Dream dictionarys are the worst. And when I read something means bad luck I get really pissed.
A normal person might dream of being naked and it could mean vulnerability, but a nudist wouldn't see it that way would they, or a stripper. - aklu, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3@Jsmuli2: Dugg for farty.
- Atertract, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3The notion of a universal system of representation in dreams isn't likely due to the likelihood of our each possessing differing construct systems.
- Evocati, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3What you get from anal bum covers.
- Halsfield, on 01/05/2009, -1/+4thats funny, you can speak with such certainty about the subject when so many other researchers talk in maybes and possibilities. thats like someone saying magic isnt real because he read a book on d&d. you also dismiss them like they don't matter, but you say yourself that they are preparing us for daily life. you seem a little confused but incredibly certain about it.
i think dreams are very important, and it may be that we're unwinding from the stress of the previous days troubles and our sleeping brains and just trying to make sense of it, or trying to release built up stress from the day, but thats just my own thoughts. I think understanding dreams could be a key to removing or reducing stress, mental problems like paranoia and manic depression, fixing depression in general, and so many other things. they're already working on a way to record dreams, and after that its going to be a lot easier to compare dreams and try to interpret them when you can remember every detail. that however is just my opinion, and i'm not going to go anywhere and say "this is how it is, anyone else bringing up a possibility is a fool". - Twenty, on 01/05/2009, -2/+5Three hours ago, I woke up and my memories of my dream quickly faded. The thoughts I was left with were "I will only go to VANS Warped Tour if Bad Religion is breaking up and it's their last tour ever."
- tangorooster, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3Interesting way to think of it. Is this why my memory recall is better after I get a full night's sleep?
- cougar3429, on 01/05/2009, -1/+4So the only reason I can't fly is due to society? The man is keeping me down!
- donkz, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3"Norris recommends trying to stop in the dream and identify what the dream is trying to tell you"
I'm sure he can do that too. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3Well the old woman's answer was quite the anticlimax...
- Hetman, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3I will say this I remember reading a study about people who had memory loss. They would make them play tetris for x amount of time before they would go to sleep. And then the next day ask them what they saw in their sleep. It turns out they saw falling tetris blocks. If I find the story I will link it to you. But my point being is that when halo 1 came out I played it so much that I would have dreams of running around halo with the halo 1 pistol. Not really shooting or do anything. Just running around. That is when I knew I had to slow down on my halo playing.
- pagno, on 01/05/2009, -1/+4What does it mean when you dream of patrolling a Halo-esque landscape made of fried rice? In Spartan armor. And I really dont even like Halo...
- Darkyuubi, on 01/05/2009, -1/+4Article is a little too mystical for me.
The end where the woman stopped her dreams and had an "epiphany"...come...on.
I was expecting some solid research proof not some random babel crap of someone I don't know... - MalarkeyPN, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3***** metaphor. Isn't there significance to what your brain chooses to do when it's "on auto pilot?"
- garryw, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2I once had a dream that I opened up a swimming pool business, on Jupiter. I was so upset when I woke up. It took a minute to realize it was not real.
- SleepParalysis, on 01/05/2009, -3/+5Sleeping for me is like a psychedelic trip sometimes.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2I think that just being introspective can lead to significant improvements in your waking life. Dreams are just an excuse to actually think about what goes on in your head.
- RudeTurnip, on 01/05/2009, -1/+3I generally agree. But, sometimes lots of people will have the same type of dream...whether or not it means the same thing to everyone, I don't know. There was another discussion here about a similar article a few months ago where quite a few people had the same type of dream about not being able to physically pull a trigger on a gun or being able to kill people.
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2it's threads like these that make me glad i read the buried comments
- Atertract, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2I do wonder if there are any inborn constructs, like the concept of a predator, that may be on some level universally interpretable when encountered in dreams. I sort of doubt that kind of interpretation has any usefulness, though.
Most of my dreams seem to be very pleasant, complex nonsense; only a few dozen have actually meant anything specific, as far as I know, and when they did, it was very obvious what they meant. - Jsmuli2, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2if you haven't already, read the "Sandman" comic book series. That's the best way to understand yourself and dreams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_(DC_Comics) - bbqsalad, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2Yeah if I go to sleep too lit or drunk I never remember my dreams. Try going sober for a few week ***** gets scary.
- Vodd9, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2Whenever I try to fight in a dream, the punches I deliver are always void of any power (much like when Mr. Burns attempts to fight). I think that this might be due to the fact that I'm very poor at arguing in a spontaneous debate (only IRL thought, I can be quite a keyboard warrior online).
- Jsmuli2, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2you kidding me? the whole thing is an interpretation. How you interact with your dreams is basically the biggest undertone of the entire series.
- insomniacal, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2I have a lot more success finding meaning in my dreams if I ignore the traditional "symbols" and focus instead on the emotions in the dream. The who, what, and where can usually be ignored -- in fact they sometimes distract from what the dream is really about, which is usually processing a feeling or emotion I haven't owned up to in conscious life.
- Halsfield, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2oh god, the norris's werent just happy with owning us in real life, now they own our dreams!
anyone else feel like people that try to interpret dreams are usually way off ? i think they're right that its about archetypes and symbols of things happening in the real world , sometimes, but the actual reason those symbols are there is really only interpretable by the dreamer/subject unless you live your entire life with the dreamer you just do not know all of their possible fears, hopes, interactions, etc.
I also think that some dreams may mean nothing and people look into them too much and if they have a nightmare they think they need to fix something in their lives when it may have been nothing.
I also want to know why some drugs like opiates make dreams more vivid , or terrifying, and some drugs cause lucid dreaming even. its strange that something like that could control your dreams in such a profound way when most other substances do not. are the dreams trying to tell you that opiate use is wrong and the scary dreams are your brain screaming at you? do they just make dreams more vivid and do not really change the content?
lot of questions still unanswered about dreams that we should look into. know ourselves before the universe. - groo68, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2Ive never had a flying dream.
- ngmcs8203, on 01/05/2009, -1/+3Watch Waking Life. You can train yourself to have more control in your dreams by doing simple exercises through out the day.
- aklu, on 01/05/2009, -1/+3TLDR
- aklu, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2You can't wait for breakfast?
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2But it MUST be true. It came directly from research done at the Oklahoma Schools of Metaphysics.
Seriously though, what the hell is that all about? School of Metaphysics?
Who teaches there? Professors Sylvia Brown and John Edward? -
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