Steve G
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Did you dream while sleeping last night?
Do you look to your dreams for insight?
Here is a new topic for sharing this mysterious side of the brain.
Go on and share your experience...
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Steve G
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I was asleep last night. I almost woke up, in a state of semi panic, quick breathing, tension. But I drifted back off. I can't remember the dream. It was only a few hours after I woke up, that I even realised I had been dreaming. Then I tried to remember. I remembered in the feeling, but I just couldn't get the thoughts back. I felt it was a pity I hadn't been more lucid. But there.
So it was the first dream I remembered in the feeling, but not the thought...
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happyfish
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I dream all the times, most of the times i can remember, i love dreaming, because it tentatively bring me to another world with full of suprise & full of unknown....
guess what, if i wake up half way during my dream especially sweet one, i wl try to sleep back to continue it..like watching TV series, to know what is going on next.... ..hahaha.. i don't know whether you believe me or not, some times i do dream abt the things happend in future.... one of the examples, i saw a building in my dream in my hometome...and i found it is build at the same place i dreamt few years later.... unexplainable....
In Chinese culture, some believe dream is the bridge for those hv passed away to communicate with their love one..........hope i am not out of topic!!!  |
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emy505
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happyfish posted the following on Sunday 16th March 2008
I dream all the times, most of the times i can remember, i love dreaming, because it tentatively bring me to another world with full of suprise & full of unknown....
guess what, if i wake up half way during my dream especially sweet one, i wl try to sleep back to continue it..like watching TV series, to know what is going on next.... ..hahaha.. i don't know whether you believe me or not, some times i do dream abt the things happend in future.... one of the examples, i saw a building in my dream in my hometome...and i found it is build at the same place i dreamt few years later.... unexplainable....
In Chinese culture, some believe dream is the bridge for those hv passed away to communicate with their love one..........hope i am not out of topic!!!
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here goes my favorite topic. I do believe you happyfish, in fact it happened to me a lot of times already. I too can actually continue my dream, especially if it's a nice dream or something that interests me, i'd simply doze off and poof! there goes my dream again..haha weird and amazing isn't it?
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Sambhu
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All that I can say about dreams is that they can be sometimes very powerfull. I've woken up many a times almost seeing my dead father walk into my room. Sometimes I've also found dreams to be signs or premonitions - that is, it gives you glimpses of the future very symbolicaly. I find it very hard to interpret what my dreams are telling me at times.
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Steve G
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Hi Sambhu, some dreams are so powerful. I find after a powerful dream, and where there is a lack of understanding, the best way to interpret is to do so with the greatest simplicity - child like. The less the interpretation the better, just seeing the obvious. I do hope more dreams will be shared here
P.S. I have also had a few dreams of my dead father. Also powerful, perhaps because he had such a strong influence on my life, and the memory of him still has/had power when I dreamed them. The last one was 6 or 12 months ago...
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Sambhu
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A couple of weeks back I dreamed of my dead father after a long time and in my dream I felt as if he was trying to tell me something. But before I could hear what he had to say I woke up. The dream must have lasted for a few seconds I presume. And that's something interesting that I learned about dreams - that most of our dreams only last for a few seconds or perhaps a couple of minutes. But the visual impact of it, since it happens in us(our imagination or inner mind) and not outside, is so powerful that you tend to notice even the tiniest things in it and it seems that the dream spanned for hours. And guess what happened afterwards - my sister's friend found from my sis's diary a New-Year post card given to me by my father more than 12 years back (he passed away in 1996). Even she didn't know that such a thing ever existed.
I had a strong emotional connection with my father when he was alive and he had influenced my personality and life even when I was only 10 or 11 years of age. I just had a very traumatic break-up with my girl friend and I wonder whether my dream had anything to do with all that's happening to me now.
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happyfish
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well, in my family (i believe probably in most of the Chinese families, but don't know abt the young generation nowadays) we will hv a book called "tong shu" which is traditional ancient Chinese almanac. There is one section known as "Dream interpretation by Zhou Gong, so, whenever we have special dream, sometimes we will read it up and seek for the interpretation of our dream....anyway, i don't know whether this will be superstition to some of you or not... honestly, i am not 100% believe nor 100% disbelieve, but somehow i do believe the wisdom behind.
Hv a read of this article if you are interested...
good night guys!! hv to go dreaming now !!!
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Steve G
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Dream in peace happyfish (i love that name, hope you are a vegetarian too).
Interesting hey Sambhu, I wonder what was in that new year's card, i'm sure you've had a good look at it tho'.
Makes sense though, that your mind is working in your sleep after the break up. I have had some major healing from sleep and dreams.
This chap, doesn't matter the name, once said that the more you resolve your emotional issues in the day, the less you dream at night. Then the sleep is its most restful and heals every part of the body requiring healing. Whenever I wake up, I notice I have been thinking / dreaming - not stop... enough said.
Still sleep is a great healer for me, and sometimes a power dream just covers me in light, and sometimes great pleasure and peace, like dreaming of flying. Even the nightmares are wonderful somehow.
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happyfish
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hi Sambhu, I believe when we are at the weakest time in our life, there will be some signals to encourage us to move on, probably dream of the person that we love the most for support & comfort, i guess perhaps your dad was trying to tell you "how much he love you and always by your side no matter what happens "
Hi Steve, well, i consider myself 85% vegeterian while no meat at all, but i sometimes hd fish & eggs....no a lot... may be less than 5 fish in a month....btw, this is my email happyfish38@gmail.com
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Sambhu
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There was nothing much in that post card. Just the words - "To, Dear Sambhu, From 'Acha'". Now, 'Acha' is father in my language which is Malayalam which is one of the 25 languages spoken in India. I'm from the southest of India from a place called Kerala which is well known as "God's own country" because of the scenic beauty of that place.
Interestingly before I met my girlfriend I used to have a recurring dream - I'm lost in a kind of junk yard and there are fumes raising all around me. The only things that were there in the plce were automobile tyres piled up to the hight of small hills. And suddenly I start climbing one of them. I'm climbing it because I know that at the top I'm going to find my father. The climbing is very difficult because the tyres are loosely piled up. Finally with much struggle I almost reach the top and I see my father's leg. I try to look up at his face and at that moment the tyre on which I stepped slips and I fall down. And I'd be thrown awake.
I used to have this dream very often untill I met my girl friend. After I met her I had it only once. But since the visual and the emotional effect of that dream was so powerfull I still remember it so very vividly.
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Steve G
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Will do happyfish, thx.
What an amazing dream Sambhu. I can't stop myself from interpreting...tell me what you think.
The fumes and the tyres are a brilliant scene setter - the difficulty and struggle of the loss of your dad. Then climbing up towards him, and you know it's him because it's his leg, yet you are not allowed to see him. The inner pull to hold on to your dad is strong, but at the critical moment, you are denied.
Then you meet your girlfriend, and the need for your dad decreases as your life is filled with another kind of affection. So, it kind of makes sense that those dreams diminished from that point. But after the break up, the mind travels back to that dream.
Thanks so much for that Sambhu. The last thing, when and if again you have a similar dream to this one, make direct contact with your dad in the dream, and speak with him. Though this is easily said, it's not flippant or loose. The brain works in it's own wonderous way, and perhaps the suggestion will allow you to take that one further step to look directly into the eyes of your mind.
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Kurangu
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I used to dream. Yes, sometimes it is about things I face duribg the day, but sometime I dream about important things I have to know. Sometimes dreams gives me special experiences about concience. And when I need somethings, my dream shows me the way to get it or only show it to me, or gives me exactely what I need.
Anouk
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Sambhu
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You're pretty good an interpreter Steve. I can give you one another suggestion for your interpretation of my dream. You said the fumes raising is symbolic of the struggle and trauma that I underwent. It may not be true because I was only 12 when my father passed away and I never really realized the true impact of whatever that was happening. The fumes (I think) is nothing symbolic but the mind's way of picturising something that I saw. In my country and in my religion (Hinduism) we follow a tradition of burning dead bodies and not burrying it. And the funeral pyre has to be set and lighted by the closest relative of the dead person. If it's the father who is dead then the son/daughter or in case he doesn't have children his spouse has to set the fire. If the person is un married then it's usually the sibbling or his/her parents who has to do it. And so, it was I who was setting fire to my dad's funeral pyre. I then felt very awkward to set flames to my dad's body because I was too young to comprehend the facts about this ultimate mystrey called death or birth for that reason. To me it was just like a drama being staged and myself being an actor in it. I stood and watched his body getting engulfed and eaten by the fire. I did cry, but I never knew why? I was amazed at seeing something live in front of my eyes which I've only seen in T.V's before. But in movies and dramas the man getting burnt in a death pyre soon returns in another show. So I too expected the same then - that it was some kind of a show and I'd go back to my home to see my dad in another role or something. It was only much later that I came in terms with whatever that happened. But I started having this dream much before I came in terms with it. Now, do you agree with my suggestion about the fumes??? It was nothing emotional but just a re-representation of something that I saw (my dad's funeral pyre) and which my mind put in a different picture.
And then again I cannot agree 100% with you that it was my dad's feet that I saw. I really can't say that. Because in my dream I didn't really see any feet but I very strongly felt that I saw a very familiar feet and the only feet that is so familiar to me is my dad's because he always liked me giving him a foot massage. Though the pictures in my dream were very vivid I can't say that it was all real 'coz I never could materially feel anything.
And yes... After I met my girl friend the dream stopped occuring and I 100% agree with your reason for it. And even after our break up I never got that dream back till now. Maybe I will and if I do get it back... Yes. I sure will make my maximum effort to talk to him or atleast look at his face...
Anyways... Thanks for your interest in my dream. I'll share more with you later.
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Steve G
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Yes, totally Sambhu, your understanding is the right one. Of course you are ultimately the only one who can understand it (the experience, the dream), because it's direct. It's also more than just the words or the memory, it's the whole feeling in it.
Your dream, and the reality behind it are so interesting. That experience of burning the body sounds and feels so powerful, and you were just 12.
If you should happen to dream of your dad again, please tell us. I look forward to hearing about more of your interesting dream experiences. Much respects
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