One of the books for dreams is from Sigmund Freud. I would be interested in learning of there is official science trying to understand the meaning
The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
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#142There are reports that dreaming is some sort of brain healing process. There are some build ups that occur during the day and thus sleeping cleans this up. Are there are definite conclusions why people dream at all?
From personal experience there are dreams I remember vividly to dreams that I know I had and then easily forget as I wake up again in the morning. Dreaming is such an interesting phenomenon.
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#143I’m convinced that dreams, at least in my case, are from past lives. I don’t have any strong religious or other reasons to believe this. It’s just a strong hunch.
I’ve only had 1-2 vivid lucid dreams. One was where I was a doctor tending to a patient and we were located in an old cabin that would have been typical in the old west. It was so vivid that it was as if I was remembering a past life.
I’ve also had many deja vu moments where I’m visiting somewhere in real life and I swear I remember it from a dream.
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#144I would like to know what small children (1-2 years) dream, but we can of course never really know for sure. My daughter (2 years) definitely seems to have nightmares. She also seems to have conversations in her dreams, as she often speaks answers to questions while sleeping. Personally I very strongly remember some wild dreams when I was very young, probably around the age I started remembering things at all, so aro…
I would really like to know what my dog dreams. Whatever it is, it sounds like he has a far more active life when asleep than when awake.
Chasing squirrels
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#145Just curious, does anyone here have dreams with some recurring themes? I've tried googling for this but sadly most of the content seems to be related to spiritual/mystical "explanations" of it. And I don't bring it up with anyone in real life so as to not appear like a kook. I don't usually remember my dreams, but when I do there's a great probability that it falls into these 2 categories - 1. I suddenly find myself…
Only recurring dream I have is I'm back in college and it's the end of a semester, suddenly I realize there's some math class I haven't been attending and I have just a few days to cram everything I've missed in time for the final.
I have both the naked in public dream (or sometimes, in underwear) and the missing class dream. Also a similar dream where I have a work schedule that I should know but I didn't write it down (used to work a job with irregular shifts).
They underlying theme is probably low self-confidence.
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#146Do you ever dream about programming? I sometimes dream about code or debugging, especially when my team is working on a deadline. A few times I dreamt of solutions to problems we had. It felt good on the spot, calming and relaxing. Unfortunately, after waking up, they don’t make any sense.
I have solved various unsolvable issues in a dream. And I actually remember one solution because I constructed a mental model so I would remember the unique groundbreaking solution I have just invented. Thus I now remember a ball with curved arrows coming in and out, but I do not understand what it means and what problem it solves.
the sun with its magnetic force lines?
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I have solved various unsolvable issues in a dream. And I actually remember one solution because I constructed a mental model so I would remember the unique groundbreaking solution I have just invented. Thus I now remember a ball with curved arrows coming in and out, but I do not understand what it means and what problem it solves.
the sun with its magnetic force lines?
More abstract than that and at software level. For example "hyper-meta-recursion" of functions or DNA-strings. Or neural net as a ball, where wayward thoughts lose their momentum. Or maybe dynamics of self-reflection and consciousness of such a ball... Also anti-gravity is one of problems I have definitively solved, but do not remember the solution right now.
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I'm completely the opposite. 50 years old and I have never once in my life remembered a dream. Never. I see things about dreams, such as this like, as interesting, but can relate to them at all, because they are things that happen to other people. I assume I have dreams, but when I wake up, I never have any recall of them.
Do you have any interest in remembering your dreams? Taking a magnesium glycinate supplement may help.
I got very strange dreams while taking Chantix (varenicline) to stop smoking.
If you don’t recall any of your dreams, AND you currently smoke, you could give it a try.
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Yes. Some common ones: 1) Being back in school, missing an exam or test. 2) My car is out of control: won't stop going backwards, accelerates uncontrollably, etc. 3) Finding secret / "extra" rooms in my house. 4) Most recently with covid: being in a store, and realized I've forgotten my mask. There are definitely other themes but these are the most common.
I had a variation of the mask dream. Note that I live in Manhattan: 1. I forget to take my mask when I leave my apartment. Apparently the door man doesn't notice. 2. When I try to go back to my apartment to retrieve my mask, the door man doesn't let me in, because you need a mask to enter. 3. I'm not allowed to enter any stores to buy a mask, because you need a mask to enter. So I'm trapped outside in this catch-22.
Witnessed a rejected mask purchase because of a recent mask mandate. He resigned to stealing it instead
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#150How else has this? I sometimes remember dreams from easily 15y - 20y ago absolutly vividly, although I have had forgotten them in the mean time. Suddenly, during the day, like in a split second (maybe triggered from a scene or scent) I feel that "feeling" (or more like a superposition of all impression of that dream i had) of a dream long lost and the dream is fully present in that moment and I kind of "remember" it…
I'm completely the opposite. 50 years old and I have never once in my life remembered a dream. Never. I see things about dreams, such as this like, as interesting, but can relate to them at all, because they are things that happen to other people. I assume I have dreams, but when I wake up, I never have any recall of them.
Are there any obvious proximate causes, such as history of mental illness, heavy drug use, or severe sleep disorders?