Thread: My Opinion: DREAMS RARELY MEAN ANYTHING

Hey all,

Jus voicing my humble opinion and seeing if anyone else shares it.

I really dont think dreams mean much of anything at all.

I think the brain is really bored and is sorting through random thought / memory waves and piecing it together as best as possible, even if it doesnt make sense...

Sometimes I dream of things that have nothing to do with what is going on in my life like climbing metal trees, and other times it has to do with something that is very relevant like grocery shopping.

Sometimes your brain finds the easy relevant stuff, and other times it links together random concepts and events. thats my opinion.

tell me whatchu think.

I'm not sure what to think yet. My dreams seem to be mostly memories mixed in with imagination, creating a world that's vaguely familiar but totally alien.. though there are a few elements which show me things about real life which I wouldn't normally notice. It's worth reading into your dreams, but it's not worth taking every element as a sign from the subconcious. Unless of course you tend to ignore your subconcious completely, in which case it might tend to be more insistent on being noticed in dreams.

your opinion is wrong.

naw just kidding, thats a good way of putting it.

I've had some e preety personal dreams in the past. Most of them are just plain weird. Like the one I had where Winnie the Pooh and Crew were singing "This is Halloween"...for, like, 20 minutes long.

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian Dreams
Hey all,

Jus voicing my humble opinion and seeing if anyone else shares it.

I really dont think dreams mean much of anything at all.

I think the brain is really bored and is sorting through random thought / memory waves and piecing it together as best as possible, even if it doesnt make sense...

Sometimes I dream of things that have nothing to do with what is going on in my life like climbing metal trees, and other times it has to do with something that is very relevant like grocery shopping.

Sometimes your brain finds the easy relevant stuff, and other times it links together random concepts and events. thats my opinion.

tell me whatchu think.

Well, another school of Intellectualism expounds that Doctrine that Everything has Meaning -- even your little essay quoted above. It means that you are a Nihistic Materialist who not only does not wish to suppose that Dreams have any Meaning, higher, lower, or indifferent, but that not much else in your animalistic godless life has any meaning either.

What, do you read about Higher Spiritual Dreams that other people have and insistently dismiss them as lies, while insisting to maintain that the vapid flat dreams of your own, a person who slithers on the spiritual bottom of things, are the only kind of dreams possible to anyone? It is wonderful for your own self esteem, considering, that in the face of it all, you can still hold such a grandiose position for yourself in the broad scheem of things... oh, again I forget, you do not believe in 'Broad Scheems of Things', do you?

But for your information, we have had verified Shared Dreams, we have had pre-cognition dreams, and we have had dreams which have specifically and poignantly pointed us through the troubles of life into a better and higher Spiritual Perspective. All that not only implies 'meaning', but actual objective meaning full of plan and purpose.

Dreams have been shown to be needed for many processes, but mainly stops you from going insane. Dreams seem to mostly be there to process the memories of the day, keep the ones you want, and throw away the ones you don't want. It mostly seems to be melded together from memories, and processed somehow into a 'dream world'... It could possibly be your brain creating new scenarios for your brain, correcting the problems in it. It could also just be how your conscious mind interprets the sorting of memories.

Well, another school of Intellectualism expounds that Doctrine that Everything has Meaning -- even your little essay quoted above. It means that you are a Nihistic Materialist who not only does not wish to suppose that Dreams have any Meaning, higher, lower, or indifferent, but that not much else in your animalistic godless life has any meaning either. *

What, do you read about Higher Spiritual Dreams that other people have and insistently dismiss them as lies, while insisting to maintain that the vapid flat dreams of your own, a person who slithers on the spiritual bottom of things, are the only kind of dreams possible to anyone? It is wonderful for your own self esteem, considering, that in the face of it all, you can still hold such a grandiose position for yourself in the broad scheem of things... oh, again I forget, you do not believe in 'Broad Scheems of Things', do you? *

But for your information, we have had verified Shared Dreams, we have had pre-cognition dreams, and we have had dreams which have specifically and poignantly pointed us through the troubles of life into a better and higher Spiritual Perspective. All that not only implies 'meaning', but actual objective meaning full of plan and purpose.

Hm, do you happen to be in possession of any documentation regarding the shared dreams that you mention? As for pre-cognitive dreams: With roughly 6 billion people on the planet, who every night have something like 18 billion dreams in total every night, the possibility for one individual of having a seemingly pre-cognitive dream by chance seems fairly likely.

You also seem to have a rather concrete way of interpreting dreams. Where did you learn to do so? And why do you mention religion and spirituality in connection with dreams? This all seems to be based on medieval mysticism and superstition.[/quote]

Originally posted by Leo Volont


Well, another school of Intellectualism expounds that Doctrine that Everything has Meaning -- even your little essay quoted above. *It means that you are a Nihistic Materialist who not only does not wish to suppose that Dreams have any Meaning, higher, lower, or indifferent, but that not much else in your animalistic godless life has any meaning either. *

What, do you read about Higher Spiritual Dreams that other people have and insistently dismiss them as lies, while insisting to maintain that the vapid flat dreams of your own, a person who slithers on the spiritual bottom of things, are the only kind of dreams possible to anyone? * It is wonderful for your own self esteem, considering, that in the face of it all, you can still hold such a grandiose position for yourself in the broad scheem of things... oh, again I forget, you do not believe in 'Broad Scheems of Things', do you?

But for your information, we have had verified Shared Dreams, we have had pre-cognition dreams, and we have had dreams which have specifically and poignantly pointed us through the troubles of life into a better and higher Spiritual Perspective. *All that not only implies 'meaning', but actual objective meaning full of plan and purpose.

Hey, leo, i know you have an opinion, and you have every right to that, but do you have to be quite so cutting, when someone disagrees with you?
I for one, think that dreams do have meaning...some of my dreams have been very grand, and full of symbols. I feel that some of my dreams have actually made me the person i am, because i've taken the time to work them out.
I feel lucky that i'm given the privilege to such dreams. (and no, i dont' think it's down to an overactive imagination either)
And what's a 'Nihistic Materialist'? I don't agree with name calling in any form, not publicly...but if someone's gonna do it, i just wish they'd make it names we all recognise!!!