Re: Mind's Eye Re: Dreams, Why we dream and how to interpret our dreams.

Dreams- including daydreams- allow us to deal with our ambivalent
emotions without causing actual harm. We harbor or cling to childlike
fantasies though we look and act like adults. Dreams are a healthy
relief of the pressure of reality. Beneath the symbols of dreams are
our secret wishes. I think the creative forces spring from the
Imagination primarily which may be nourished by our ability to dream.
Dreams are probably a preventative form of adult control which could
otherwise be destructive to self and others. But they don't solve
everything, do they?

On Aug 25, 3:04 am, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Often time I wake up in the middle of the night with an understanding of
> what has been bugging me..  I try to get up and write it down and then look
> at it in the morning.  I do think that the mind had a way of working at
> night that is different than day time and is more open to crossing the time
> space barrier.
> Allan
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> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:09 AM, kenny <goatsrrun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > a lot of it is just nature taking it's place. but what would you expect to
> > gain from it? people have been around a long time, a not that i know of
> > much can be made up of a use for them, unless maybe for hypnotics to solve
> > say crime or boyhood fear. and that has been done. what else could a dream
> > be of value. i'd rather pay attention to what i believe to
> > be consciousness, because it looks like a duck, talks...proBaBlY a DucK but
> > i am interested to know if they could have more applications i do not know
> > of, or maybe your crazy idea^^
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> > On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:42:44 AM UTC-4, andrew vecsey wrote:
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> >> Anyone interested in dreams and would like to give their opinions and
> >> vent their ideas about them????
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> >> Below are my opinions and ideas in both video and text format. Video
> >> format is found at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=xk6lpV-rWPc<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk6lpV-rWPc>
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> >> A summary of my essay is:
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> >>    - Dreams are like the cleaning-up operations of computers when they
> >>    are off-line. Like defragmenting a fragmented memory.
> >>    - * *In your dream you are putting your memory of the day in short
> >>    term memory into your long term memory.
> >>    - Dreams are like when we put a picture away and see an old
> >>    photograph of a long forgotten event that raises our interest.
> >>    - Dreaming of our past lives makes each human brain a cosmic eye for
> >>    the cosmic brain allowing it to experience the cosmos.
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> >> Text of video:
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> >> Our personalities are split into a conscious part that we are aware of
> >> and a subconscious part that works automatically without our awareness. The
> >> conscious part dominates when we are awake, and our subconscious dominates
> >> while we are sleeping. When we go to sleep, the conscious part, having
> >> recorded all our reality as we experienced it disconnects its sensory
> >> inputs and also goes to sleep.
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> >> This happens over our entire life time. Whenever we sleep, we dream every
> >> couple of hours. The dreams last from about 10 minutes at the beginning of
> >> the sleep and increase to about 20 minutes at the end. We remember our
> >> dreams only 5% of the time, if we wake up while we are dreaming or if they
> >> are sufficiently vivid with emotions and sensations to be worth
> >> remembering.
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> >> Our dreams can feel so real that sometime we do not know for a while if
> >> we were dreaming or not. Whenever we are surprised by extra ordinary luck,
> >> we pinch ourselves and hope it`s not all just a dream. When we are shocked
> >> by real horror, we really hope it`s only a nightmare. When we wake up
> >> from a nightmare, the terror or anxiety is so real to us that our body
> >> reacts as if it was real by increasing heartbeat, breathing and hormone
> >> production.  As realistic as dreams are, once we are fully awakened into
> >> reality, we have no problems in knowing what is real and what was only a
> >> dream.
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> >> Dreams are like the cleaning-up operations of computers when they are
> >> off-line. Like defragmenting a fragmented memory full of holes and
> >> rearranging to make more space, we dream to be able to forget and in
> >> this way make room to record more information. In dreaming, we move short
> >> term memory to long term memory compressing it, keeping only certain
> >> information that we want to remember. This could be a smile, a wink, or the
> >> color of dress, type of shoes, hairstyle or smell of perfume. All other
> >> data in our photographic mind is greatly compacted or erased, for most,
> >> except for some autistic savants who can retain long term photographic
> >> memory like it was a photograph. Some, like the man Kim Peek, depicted
> >> in the movie Rain Man, was able to recite by heart entire telephone books he
> >> has scanned thru in the past.
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> >> While we dream, our eyes move in a way called rapid eye movement or REM.
> >> All mammals experience REM. Dolphins experience minimum REM, while humans
> >> remain in the middle and the opossum and the armadillo are among the most
> >> prolific dreamers. A 10 minute event we dream about takes 10 minutes of
> >> dream time. Time is not sped up or slowed down or distorted during dreams.
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> >> Sleep deprivation, depriving dreams, results in rapid deterioration of
> >> physiological functioning.  During our dreams many external stimuli may
> >> bombard the senses and the brain often integrates them and makes them a
> >> part of a dream to ensure continued sleep and continued dreams.
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> >> People all over the world dream of mostly the same things- their personal
> >> experiences from the last day or week. Most people dream in color.  The
> >> visual nature of dreams are generally reflective of a person's memories and
> >> experiences, but often take on highly exaggerated and bizarre forms
> >> blending into each other.
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> >> The most common emotion experienced in dreams is *anxiety*. Other
> >> emotions include abandonment, anger, fear, joy and happiness. Negative
> >> emotions dominate positive ones. Sexual dreams occur no more than 10% of
> >> the time and may result in orgasms or nocturnal emissions called *wet
> >> dreams*.  *Sleepwalking* is where our subconscious part, like a
> >> hypnotist hypnotizes our conscious part to do certain things without our
> >> knowing and remembering them. *Lucid dreaming* is when we have a certain
> >> level of control and awareness while dreaming because our conscious part is
> >> still awake when the subconscious starts to move short term memory into
> >> long term memory. Many people experience *recurring dreams*.
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> >> *Example of a dream and how it can be interpreted.*
>
> >> You went horseback riding in the morning and attended a surprise birthday
> >> party for your friend in the afternoon. In the evening you saw a film. You
> >> go to sleep and the next morning the alarm wakes you up. You wake up
> >> sweating and your heart is beating as if a lion jumped at you. You realize
> >> that it was all a dream. You dreamt you were with your brother waiting for
> >> your sister to come home for dinner. When the doorbell rang, you opened the
> >> door just to find a lion jumping at you. Then you woke up.
> >> **
> >> *Why such a dream?  *In your dream you are putting your memory of the
> >> day into your long term memory. The horse you rode was put into your animal
> >> compartment, the birthday event into the surprise compartment and the film
> >> you saw into the film compartment, filled with the many films you saw with
> >> your brother. And the alarm was the doorbell. As your brain opened up the
> >> various compartments, items that were previously stored there were
> >> re-examined. This is like when we put a picture away and see an old
> >> photograph of a long forgotten event that raises our interest.
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> >> Vivid and colorful dreams can give a creative thought or a sense of
> >> inspiration. Sometime we dream about people events and places that are
> >> totally unfamiliar to us. In some cases it has been discovered that people
> >> dreamt about unknown people in unknown places who turned out to be real
> >> people who had died long ago. The simplest explanation to this is that
> >> memories of our past lives are uncovered and shown to our conscious part in
> >> dreams. This is the greatest gift of dreams. It opens doors to newly found
> >> treasures of remote memories beyond the short term and long term memories
> >> found in the brain.  This makes each human brain a cosmic eye for the
> >> cosmic brain allowing it to experience the cosmos.
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