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The Meaning of Dreams. Craig Hamilton-Parker is a well-known psychic medium and author and here tells us about the meaning of dreams.The video will give you a brief insight into what dreams mean and how you can interpret dreams. Type in 1 word or your entire dream for Free expert dream interpretation. Created by world renowned Dream Expert Lauri Loewenberg.
If dreams were movies, they wouldn’t make a dime. They’re often banal, frequently fleeting and they’re screened for an audience of just one. As for the storyline? You’re in a supermarket, only it’s also Yankee Stadium, shopping with your second-grade teacher until she turns into Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Then you both shoot a bear in the cereal aisle.
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Somebody call rewrite.But dreams are vastly more complex than that, and if you’ve got a theory that explains them, have at it. The ancient Egyptians thought of dreams as simply a different form of seeing, with trained dreamers serving as seers to help plan battles and make state decisions.
The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that dreams were equal parts predictions of future events and visitations by the dead.Sigmund Freud considered dreaming an expression of repressed conflicts or desires, which were — no surprise, this being Freud — often sexual in nature. Carl Jung took a more rigorous approach, explaining dreams as a sort of “shaped energy,” inchoate emotions or thoughts released by the deep subconscious and entrained into narratives by higher regions of the brain. Modern psychologists and neurologists, armed with imaging equipment including and MRIs, have taken things to a deeper and more technical level, speculating that dreaming is the brain’s way of dumping excess data, consolidating important information, keeping us alert to danger and more. Thank you!For your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters.
If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder.But why do dreams take the particular shape they do? Why do you keep dreaming about having to cram for finals years after you graduated from college? Why do you dream about flying, or being chased by a wild animal, or showing up at that always-embarrassing party with your always-absent pants? And why are there dreams so stark or bizarre or seemingly perverse that you will carry them to your grave rather than revealing so much as a single detail about them to anyone in the world? The least glamorous explanation for any dream is that it serves as a sort of data dump — a clearing of the day’s useless memories and a caching of the valuable ones. Researchers had long suspected that that process, if it exists, plays out between the hippocampus — which controls memory — and the neocortex, which governs higher order thought.at the Max Planck Medical Institute in Heidelberg, Germany helped confirm that theory: working with anesthetized mice, the researchers found that as the neocortex fires during sleep, it signals various regions in the hippocampus to upload whatever information they’ve been holding in short-term storage.
The hippocampus is then cleared to gather more the next day, while the neocortex decides what to transfer to long-term memory and what to discard. As that data streams by on the computer screen of the sleeping mind, some of it gets snatched up and randomly stitched into the crazy quilt of dreams, which often only vaguely resemble the literal content of the information.MORE:Justice Ginsburg and the bear, say, may come to mind as your brain examines and discards a scrap of news it picked up about the Supreme Court and the Department of the Interior. Most of this evanescent imagery — an estimated 90% — we don’t recall, which is consistent with the idea of dreaming as purging. “We dream to forget,” wrote Nobel laureate Francis Crick in 1984.Crick, who is best known and most celebrated as the co-discoverer of DNA, improbably became something of a leading thinker — or at least leading provocateur — in dream theory, and what was colloquially known as his “garbage disposal theory” of dreaming attracted a lot of believers into the 1990s. But most contemporary dream theorists believe things are not quite so simple.
For starters, a century of experience with talk therapy has shown that far from benefitting from forgetting all of our dreams, we often get a great deal out of reflecting on and analyzing them. “It’s not a huge, dramatic effect but it certainly seems like paying attention to your dreams can have positive effects,” says Harvard University psychologist Deirdre Barrett, author of The Committee of Sleep. That’s not to say that dreams don’t involve a certain amount of data sorting and clearing. “This idea that information is being processed, I think does have validity. We’re sorting things into categories, comparing them to other events, considering information that we would suppress during the day.”.
Another view of dreaming comes from cognitive neuroscientist of Sweden’s who has proposed what he calls the Threat Simulation Theory, arguing that the brain responds to potential future danger by running what amount to fire drills while we sleep just to keep us sharp. That may be the source of the persistent dream about failing to study for finals — with finals as a stand-in for a presentation you have to write for work in your adult life. Dreaming about losing some or all of your teeth — reported by a surprising number of respondents in studies — appears to be about anxiety over saying the wrong thing at the wrong moment. It may also be about bodily deterioration — something we all fear even in childhood.The fact that the same dream themes occur across different populations and radically different cultures is not all that unexpected, since what human beings have in common is often far deeper and more primal than what we don’t. “We share a lot of genetic programming, so even modern humans continue to be concerned about large animals with big teeth,” says Barrett. “The idea of nudity as social exposure seems universal too, even in tribes that wear very little.
In most cultures inappropriate clothing means shame.”A far more productive function of dreaming is problem-solving, as the sleeping brain continues to work on jobs the waking mind handled during the day. In one 2010 study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, 99 people were administered a task that required them to navigate through a three-dimensional maze. During the course of their practice sessions, they were given a 90-minute break. Some were asked to engage in quiet activities like reading; others were were instructed to try to take a nap. Those who did nap and who happened to dream about the maze showed a ten-fold improvement on the task in the next session compared to the other subjects.
Something similar happens when students are studying for a test and find they have a better mastery over the material after a night’s sleep, especially if they dreamed even indirectly about what they’d been learning. “I often think of dreaming as simply thinking in a different biochemical state,” Barrett says.Finally — give Freud his due — there are dreams that appear to be strictly wish-fulfillment. Dreams about flying may represent a desire for freedom. Dreams about finding new rooms in your home may express a desire for opportunity or novelty. And as for sex dreams? Often as not they’re about, um, sex.
(The brain doesn’t always make things difficult.)Our nights would likely be quieter and our sleep more serene if we didn’t dream at all, or at least didn’t dream so much. But our minds would not be as rich nor our brains as nimble nor our wishes so often fulfilled — if only in vivid fantasy.
The screening room of the sleeping brain may sometimes wear you out, but like all good theaters, it will rarely leave you bored.
We all want to know the meaning of our dreams, especially when they leave us perplexed and wondering why a particular theme played out while we slept.Dream content often relates back to what’s happening in your waking life. So when your days are filled with stress and anxiety, you may end up having some unpleasant dreams.
But if things are going well and you feel satisfied, your dreams may take on a different twist., a licensed psychologist and AASECT certified sex therapist, explains that dreams are a way to reveal what is invisible to you. They serve as an inner guidance system, give you commentary about how you’re living your life, and reveal symbolic images for you to explore with curiosity.The symbols and images in your dreams connect you to your feelings, your wishes, or something that you’re trying to resolve, says Brito. Decoding the meaning behind sex dreams is not a one-size-fits-all process.
While you may have the urge to interpret your sex dream literally, Brito says to capture the essence of a dream, it’s best to focus on the symbolic representation.“When sex shows up in your dreams, break it down into a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and focus on experiencing the feelings in your dream and being curious about where the energy of the dream leads you, specifically of how the dream ends,” explains Brito. “This will reveal to you the emotional need that your sex dream is trying to have you fulfill in waking life,” she adds.That’s why it’s OK to not read too much into last night’s dream that featured you doing things you never thought you would do with your boss. Even sex dreams that might be considered “taboo” are nothing to worry about. You just have to dig a little deeper to see what your subconscious is saying about your waking life.Again, it’s important to point out that decoding the meaning behind sex dreams is not a one-size-fits-all process. We all attach a different meaning to each scenario.
However, there are some common themes that appear in sex dreams. Depending on how often you’re having these dreams and how long you’ve been split from your ex, they could mean anything from getting used to a new partner to unresolved grief about an ex. What to do about it:If you’re fresh off of a breakup, allow yourself time to adjust to having sex with a new partner. However, if it’s been several months or even years since your breakup and you still have recurring sex dreams with the same ex, it might be time to work with a professional through some grief issues around this relationship, or feeling unfulfilled in your current relationship. BDSM stands for bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism. “This dream may mean that you had an overbearing mother or father, and you are familiarly tantalized by the idea of being tied up and overcome by a love object (person),” explains, a Beverly Hills family and relationship psychotherapist. Other possible interpretations include a desire to control or wishing others would take initiative.
What to do about it:“There is nothing perverted, wrong, or unnatural with this — our sexual experiences are personal and private,” explains Walfish.When one partner wants to try BDSM or toys, but the other partner isn’t interested, she says to gently tell your partner exactly what you’d like to try. Be clear that you’re completely satisfied with them as your partner, and offer to exchange the favor by trying something your partner would enjoy. This dream may be an indicator of a person who, for instance, had a charming, narcissistic father who deprived them of sustained attention.
They fantasize about the all-encompassing feeling of being fully loved by an authority figure. What to do about it:If you’re having this dream because you crave the attention of an authority figure, Walfish says to take some time to figure out who it really is that you want to be loved by.“Depending on the relationship with this person, and whether or not you still have conflict over it, you may be able just to write it off, or you may decide to talk to a professional about working through your feelings,” she adds. It’s not uncommon for people to become aroused and sexually turned on by the visual stimulation of viewing an inanimate object.For example, Walfish points out that the shape of a bathtub spout may resemble the male penis, or the sculpture of a nude body can be a huge turn-on. “Many people hold the visual image at the front of their minds and later masturbate to a creative imaginary vignette of sex with the inanimate object,” she explains. What to do about it:There is nothing perverted, wrong, or unnatural with this. As long as it doesn’t hurt you or another person in the process, Walfish says to just go with it. This dream, says Walfish, could mean a proper, buttoned-up person wants to let go and feel more comfortable in their own skin.
They may subconsciously wish to be free of their own self-judgments and preoccupation with how others view them. What to do about it:“You can either let go of this dream and write it off as nothing or use it as a way to explore dirty talk with your partner,” says Walfish. However, she does caution that dirty talk is potentially risky if your partner finds it distasteful or has a negative stigma attached to it.That’s why communication, as always, is key to learning more about the likes and dislikes of your partner.
Your sex dreams don’t need to be rooted in deep emotions or past traumas for them to be a tool to help you get more in touch with your desires and emotions. Even if your dreams are on the lighter side, consider tapping into their meaning to help you become more aware of your feelings and inner desires. Start a journalTo get a better idea of any patterns or recurring sex dreams, keep a journal by your bed, and write down the details from your dream. After three to five entries, review the dreams and see what they have in common. If they point to a need for more intimacy, you may want to talk with your partner about your feelings.Brito reminds us that dreams are just one way to get in touch with our feelings. “Other ways to get in touch with your feelings are to spend some time with yourself, to unplug from your digital devices, and to focus on paying attention to your body,” says Brito.
Do a body scanBrito also recommends setting time aside to journal about your day. “Give yourself permission to schedule a ‘soul appointment’ whereby you create the space to connect with your heart essence,” she explains.To start, she suggests blocking 20 to 60 minutes in your calendar, turning off your phone and your computer, making some tea, and taking five deep breaths before you do a body scan.“A encourages you to notice what is physically happening in your body, identify where your feelings reside in your body, and then to learn to name your emotions,” says Brito. “Let your body reveal what emotions are residing in your body, like if your body could speak, what would it say to you,” she adds.
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