Dream

My dreams …
There are a number of dreams that we have in common. For example have you ever dreamed about your teeth falling out? Or maybe you have had a dream about being in a snake pit or have had common dreams about death or sex or flying or falling or had a dream come true or had a dream in a dream?

I have always been curious to know about the science of dreams and have done a small research on it. I thought of sharing it.

The subconscious mind is a most remarkable mechanism when it comes to creating dreams. Subconscious mind does this because you are its best buddy and it wants to keep you, your emotions, your mind and feelings in equilibrium. Some say Learning the meanings of dreams through their symbols can help you to understand what it is up to and further helps you to help your self.

If we have fears, it tries to feed us those fears little by little in coded dreams to help us overcome them. Occasionally it uses the brute force of a nightmare to get its point across. If we have unfulfilled desires it may provide us with a substitute to alleviate the sense of lacking.

An example:
Raj is a hard working and honest man working in Dubai from a very small village in tamil nadu who works hard to make ends meet. He has an Indian friend named Dhaval who made a false claim for a faked injury. Even though he had no witnesses to his fall, the policy paid him a large amount of money to settle the claim. Raj is dismayed and almost delirious with anger. How could his friend be rewarded for dishonesty while he worked so hard just to get by. He became discouraged and his outlook on life and sense of right and wrong suffered.

Several months later Raj had a dream. He witnessed his friend Dhaval being arrested for fraud, the police handcuffed him and a nearby judge ordered him deported back to India. End of dream. Was his friend really arrested or deported? No. It only happened in dream. His subconscious delivered Raj back to his old self through a dream. It gave him a substitute for justice in a dream which he accepted.

Most dreams may not be so straight forward and may require the use of analyzing techniques.

The average person has about 3 to 5 dreams per night, but some may have up to 7 dreams in one night. The dreams tend to last longer as the night progresses. During a full 8-hour night sleep, two hours of it is spent dreaming. Everybody dreams! This is a scientifically proven fact.

Many people have had dreams that eventually came true afterwards. This can be explained in how we unconsciously gather little information here and there and when you have a dream, it puts together all this unconscious information before you are consciously able to do so (like in “Karthik calling Karthik”). In short, you unconsciously already know what was going to happen and it only appears as if the dream had predicted the future.

Theory says that dreams are a biologically necessary aspect of sleep. Research has shown that people who were prevented from entering the dream state and woken up before they can dream were more easily irritated, jittery, and performed far below average.

A dream that recurs is a clear indication that some issue is not being confronted (like in “Jane tu ya jane na”) or that it has not yet been resolved. Your anxieties about a certain situation that you are struggling with may also cause you to have recurring dreams.

Having a dream within a dream may be safer and more acceptable way to express material from your unconscious. The dream within a dream protects you, the dreamer from waking up. Such dreams often reflect a hidden but crucial issue which you need to acknowledge and confront.

Another thing that is yet unexplained to me is two people having the same dream. A friend of mine and his wife claims to have seen the same dream in the same time…

There is much more to dreams that we can’t even dream about. Like the things one may say in a regression therapy is actually in the memory of the sub-conscious mind and dreams are the processed form of the same which may help our conscious mind.