What do you think dreams are?

Isn't that such a strange feeling?? I know EXACTLY what you're talking about with that library!! I keep coming back to this one place in my dreams too and I don't think I've ever been there either! It's this room that looks like a sitting/living room, it's very unusual looking with these drapes and this sort of long carpet with very dark furniture pieces in it. And it's strange but I know that the paintings hanging on the walls are beautiful, but I can't ever remeber them when I wake up. It's not a scary dream at all either-whenever I dream I'm back in it I feel totally comfortable and like I'm in one of the rooms in my house. That's SO COOL that someone else knows what I'm talking about!!

Wow that's crazy. I even know what you mean about the paintings. For me it's, whenever I'm with someone, I NEVER remember who it was. I can't even remember if it was a boy or a girl. Maybe our mind is creating a little safe haven for us? Because I know when I wake up after dreaming about it, I always feel really good. You just have to wonder just why our brain does this.

Hah I was nodding as I was reading that. That's so true. I find that a lot of times, I can explain even the most bizarre dreams I have. But other times even I'm baffled. For example, I dream about this one library a lot. I've never been to it, and I don't think it exists, but I keep coming back to it in my dreams. I wonder what that means.

Incidentally, www.dreammoods.com has a really thorough and comprehensive dictionary. Even if you don't believe in dream interpretation, it can be really interesting and really revealing to see what the common interpretations are for certain symbols. For example, one of my coworkers is very disgruntled. She's unhappy with her job, and feels like she's not getting the challenge or the appreciation she deserves. She had a dream recently (and this is pretty gross, so if you have a weak stomach, don't read ahead) in which she was looking in the mirror and had all these big, nasty zits on her face, and she started popping them. As she was popping them, worms started crawling out of them. So I looked up "pimples" and "worms" and here's what I found: Apparently, dreaming about popping pimples means that you have a lot of negative feelings that you're keeping inside, and if you don't release them in a safe way, they're going to just burst out and be all violent and stuff. Dreaming about worms crawling on or from your skin means that you feel you are being seriously mistreated by someone, and that as a result you are feeling bad about yourself. Not exactly prophetic, but really interesting and accurate nonetheless!

that is so true!

Very well put! I think you just summed up the way I feel here. It IS really interesting to see what people think. Especially since psychologists are still trying to make sense of dreams.

Oh I like that explanation. I can see that working. I have to confess, I do have a dream book. It's fun to look stuff up in it, even though it's silly.

I know! Dreams can be so strange.

That's for sure. You feel that the things you dream about are bits of subconscious trying to bring itself to your attention? I think sometimes that's true. And omgsh yay one of my discussions really took off! That's encouraging lol.

I think it is a "movie" of our subconcious thoughts

Oh I've heard that idea too! It's an interesting thought. Why does our brain feel the need to entertain us though? Or is it just trying to make us see something in this "movie"?

I agree with you too lol. That seems like... a bit of Freud and a bit of other theories. I guess the big mistake that all these theorists made was taking extremes.

I think so too, sometimes. But other times they seem pointless, while still others I feel like my mind is trying to tell me something. Might be everything at once.

That's true. I guess, in the same way that we are our own doctors, we are also our own dream interpreters.