Do Dreams Really Mean Anything?
Some neuroscientists think dreams don't mean a thing.
   When I was 14 years old, I had a dream I'll never forget. Though it
   Dreams have fascinated people since the beginning of recorded history.
   In ancient Egypt, people with vivid dreams were considered to be
   blessed with special insight, and many of their dreams have been found
   best ways to receive divine revelation was through dreaming, and some
   people even slept on sanctified "dream beds" to gain wisdom from the
   Jung instead concluded that dreams provided insights into the inner
   workings of the mind. In his book The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud
   detailed a complex system of dream analysis. At its core, his theory
   Regardless of whether dreams foretell the future, allow us to commune
   understand the meaning of dreams, we must interpret them as if they
   were written in a secret code. A quick search of an online dream
   objects hidden in the clouds? What if dreams don't actually
   that dreams are just a side effect of more fundamental neurological
   Although not all researchers agree, many think that dreams may be an
   place. This is why dreams seem so illogical and strange.
   So why do people cling so tightly to their dream dictionaries?
   yes, even dream analysis.
   almost anyone, much like the interpretation of my haunted house dream.
   question about almost any interpretation given by a dream dictionary.
   meaning to dreams. Tore Nielsen and Ross Levin have proposed a theory
   midway between Freud's almost magical symbol-based system of dream
   analysis and the view that dreams are simply random. Their perspective,
   the Neurocognitive Model of Dreaming, is complicated, and impossible to
   completely explain here. Although this theory still states that dreams
   stories our brains weave from seemingly random dream images are guided,
   having bad dreams also rises. This may be why people who have
   According to this theory, an important function of dreams is what the
   researchers term "fear extinction" -- that is, dreams help us to
   waking lives. When the process is working properly, dreams use the
   Though the Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming would suggest that the
   particular symbols in my haunted house dream don't have any objective
   or universal meanings that I could find in a dream dictionary, the
   overall emotional quality of the dream probably does have meaning. Like
   stresses of growing up -- feelings which showed up in my dream.
   So while dreams may not tell the future, allow us to commune with the
   In other words, if you're experiencing a stream of bad dreams, it might
   I suggest you start by putting the dream dictionary down.
Dreams are all about meaning, and nothing else
   "Dream dictionaries" are repudiated by psychology. Nevertheless, the
   author infers that dream interpretation is all about decoding a secret
   dream interpretation, instead of taking examples from dream
   The dream function was created by evolution to keep the organism alert.
   A cat dreams about a mouse hunt, for obvious reasons. It is training.
   our instinctual patterns are fulfilled. Most importantly, dreams
   compensate an unthinking daytime attitude, by presenting the dreamer
dream experts are
   scientists who study people who dream or ... cultures / people who
   actually use the dream world on a regular basis as a tool.
   If we want to really know about dreams, we may want to look to cultures
   and/or traditions that actually used dreams.
dream meanings?
   dreams ! The individual is the only one at all capable of doing that,
   but only for their own dreams. Dreaming of a horse means different
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