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your brain only dreams about things that you can imagine while awake. dreams are therefore a result of what you've experienced and not predictive of it.
i think it's all just random junk in your brain being processed/organized/discarded and random neurons firing
Netflix needs to turn Jodie Foster Dream Bear Bodyguard into a series.
John Hinckley Jr as a recurring villain and a really confusing time travel plot where they try to save Reagan for some reason.
That's the spinoff: John Hinckley Jr. Dream Assassin Bodyguard
When I got out of the military I had nothing but dreams about being late for work and dealing with bullshit and would wake up super stressed out and suddenly get relieved when I realized that I was unemployed for about two months - so I figure that even if your dreams are random the way your brain interprets them and the way you filter out which ones to remember are related to your anxieties or strong feelings you have.
schools
Dream schools are always still as big as they were when I was a kid, but even more labarynthian. Also, you always get in trouble while trying to find whatever it is you're looking for.
I have the same thing and it's always the biggest mindfuck when I go somewhere I haven't been before, and it reminds me of some part of the dream city.
Sometimes (I think because I run out of imagination during the dream), the city ends in a steep cliffside where there shouldn't be one, like reaching the limit of a level in a video game.
They "mean something" in the sense that they can correspond with stuff you experienced or thought about irl. I wouldn't bother reading too much into it, but it's neat seeing how your brain interprets shit when you're not around to keep it in check.
I'm not trans, but I once had this really long detailed dream about how I dressed up as a woman as a joke and then actually became one. I distinctly remember a part where me and my sister were going to some party and just being so confident and happy. I had some questions when I woke up, for sure. But yeah, I'm not trans. It was a huge mindfuck. I think it had more to do with me looking up to my sister and me having a really bad self-image, so that combined into becoming 'like her', physically.
dreams are what you experience when your brain cleans itself
they can hint at things going on inside your head, but with all the intense stimuli we receive in modern society a lot of it is random noise. would say recurring dreams tend to indicate something real that's going on in your head
I’ve been out of high school for a decade and I still have recurring nightmares of beings trapped there, but I’m a kid in my dream so I have no power to change anything, and if I just don’t go, they’ll send a cop with a gun after me. I’m not trying to be cute when I say I think there’s some PTSD there. The massive Texas high schools I had to switch between about every year were basically prisons.
I have this dream too, also the variation where I am an adult but they have to send me back due to some administrative error.
Dreams are, among other things, your brain going over thoughts and feelings that seem incomplete or unfinished. There's definitely meaning in there, but usually you can't really turn that meaning into definitive statements. One thing I've gotten out of reflecting on my dreams is realizing that a certain thing was really stressing me out. When I was awake I was suppressing my reaction to it to get through the day. It wasn't until I saw something analogous show up in multiple dreams and completely change the vibe that I realized how much it was actually bothering me.
I think websites claiming to interpret the meaning of your dreams are bullshit, not because the concept is bullshit, but because the meaning is so tied up in your personal experiences and ways of thinking that you can't make a general form that's going to work for everyone. There might be some broad similarities in how people dream that a could be a useful starting point, but I think to get to the real meaning, the work has to be done in your own brain.
Dreams are like emptying your compuyer's recycling bin. Its just a reflection of what's been stressinf you and what's been on your mind. If something recours regularly its likely that its having an emotional impact on you somehow. Our brains are wired to seek patterns, even when there aren't any. That applys to both your waking brain amalyzing your dreams as well as your sleeping brain trying to process/create a dream.
What does it mean when you only dream very rarely and when you do the dreams are almost always unsettling, not violent nightmares, just weird incoherent stuff with an underlying vibe of unspecified dread and impeding disaster?
That's my experience. I think the only time I dream is when I'm super stressed
To me dreams are a special view into my own psyche. which can be very special and meaningful. Dreams are fascinating to me.
All my dreams are pretty straight-forward given my worries and particularly thoughts before sleeping.
Dreams can definitely "mean things. The ordinary structured filters of thought go away to some extent during dreaming, and while this is probably because the brain is doing some kind of strange adaptive process at the unconscious level, the conscious experience of dreams can provide insight into both yourself and the world around it (or at least the perception of the world).
You can train this via several mystical and non-mystical traditions. But the important thing is to remember that even if really weird stuff that is apparently predictive or not directly observed happens in RL that seems connected to the dream, it's all just in your head.
Your head just has a lot more going on than you might think.
