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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 282311" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Look WHO you're asking.......<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /></p><p> </p><p>I frequently have technicolor dreams, sometimes I have them in black and white, and a lot of times I have fantastic REM sleep and then WHAM - odd dream that seems to mean nothing. </p><p> </p><p>I asked my therapist about a lot of these - did they have meaning (I got 2 dictionaries just to see) and he said that dreams are a lot like EMDR therapy without a guide. In EMDR therapy you get to go back to a traumatic event in your mind except you are in control of what happens via the training and the therapist walking you through it. You get a remote control of sorts and YOU get to be in a totally safe place controlling what is happening. </p><p> </p><p>IN a dream state - as I'm told - a lot of times it's our brains way of trying to fix things that happened so that our mind can file them in an appropriate place for storage/recall later on. IF we can work something out in a dream - then when we awake we feel we have a better handle on the situation. If we can't - we tend to get frustrated and that information the brain is trying to file gets dumped into a miscellaneous file. </p><p> </p><p>ALL THINGS we see, smell, taste, hear - are stored in our brains much like a digital camera and a chip. Everything. We miss nothing - but we can be distracted and not know we're hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting things - I guess in a way it's like ADHD in reverse. </p><p> </p><p>I know people who dream and get out the dictionary the next day and analyze their dream to mean something meaningful, or something that could be changing. I know people that have dreams and never think of them again. Unless it's to be mentioned as a funny or OH I had that happen in a dream once statement. </p><p> </p><p>I belive when you dream it's your body's way of taking all the things you have been hearing and seeing, tasting, smelling and trying to make sense of them. I also believe in premonition style dreams but NOT to the point that they disrupt my day. I think if you have the same dream or reoccuring dreams it again is the body's way of trying to make sense of a bunch of similar information that seems to have no place to be stored or no proper place in your head. </p><p> </p><p>This may sound odd too - but a lot of times if you really believe these dream dictionaries - what you think is horrible like a car crash or loss? May not have anything at all to do with car crash or loss. I do know if a dream continues to bother you that much you should probably get with a good therapist that does EMDR therapy and work though what you think it means. </p><p> </p><p>Dude just had a really odd dream that my big white dog came to his house, took his car, and was driving like a maniac through the woods near his house - and every time Dude got close to him to get him to stop my dog called him a horrible Yiddish word. - so go figure. I'm amazed - I didn't know my dog was Jewish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 282311, member: 4964"] Look WHO you're asking.......:raspberry-tounge: I frequently have technicolor dreams, sometimes I have them in black and white, and a lot of times I have fantastic REM sleep and then WHAM - odd dream that seems to mean nothing. I asked my therapist about a lot of these - did they have meaning (I got 2 dictionaries just to see) and he said that dreams are a lot like EMDR therapy without a guide. In EMDR therapy you get to go back to a traumatic event in your mind except you are in control of what happens via the training and the therapist walking you through it. You get a remote control of sorts and YOU get to be in a totally safe place controlling what is happening. IN a dream state - as I'm told - a lot of times it's our brains way of trying to fix things that happened so that our mind can file them in an appropriate place for storage/recall later on. IF we can work something out in a dream - then when we awake we feel we have a better handle on the situation. If we can't - we tend to get frustrated and that information the brain is trying to file gets dumped into a miscellaneous file. ALL THINGS we see, smell, taste, hear - are stored in our brains much like a digital camera and a chip. Everything. We miss nothing - but we can be distracted and not know we're hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting things - I guess in a way it's like ADHD in reverse. I know people who dream and get out the dictionary the next day and analyze their dream to mean something meaningful, or something that could be changing. I know people that have dreams and never think of them again. Unless it's to be mentioned as a funny or OH I had that happen in a dream once statement. I belive when you dream it's your body's way of taking all the things you have been hearing and seeing, tasting, smelling and trying to make sense of them. I also believe in premonition style dreams but NOT to the point that they disrupt my day. I think if you have the same dream or reoccuring dreams it again is the body's way of trying to make sense of a bunch of similar information that seems to have no place to be stored or no proper place in your head. This may sound odd too - but a lot of times if you really believe these dream dictionaries - what you think is horrible like a car crash or loss? May not have anything at all to do with car crash or loss. I do know if a dream continues to bother you that much you should probably get with a good therapist that does EMDR therapy and work though what you think it means. Dude just had a really odd dream that my big white dog came to his house, took his car, and was driving like a maniac through the woods near his house - and every time Dude got close to him to get him to stop my dog called him a horrible Yiddish word. - so go figure. I'm amazed - I didn't know my dog was Jewish. [/QUOTE]
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