What significance, if any, do dreams have.
I had a wicked dream last night. Im wondering if any one has ever found any meaning in dreaming. (yourself or philosophy)
Can anyone give me some direction on this. 
Peace n love.
heh not that this will help anything… just sorta bragging here… but for the longest time the only dreams i would ever remember were ones that somehow involved sex. =) it was perdy sweet. i got to do alota neeat gals in my dreams =)
then ya woke up …swimming in a puddle of semen.
ha ha 
My most vivid dream was that I was a cavalryman who went forward in the charge of the light brigade.
Conclusions?
I’m a loser. Haha
What you dream perhaps has no significance in life, the fact that you dream probably says something though.
thats total crap githa. Of course it has significance.
I’ll tell u later.
I dream a lot.
I dream a lot too, Youngman.
i suggest reading freuds “interpretation of dreams,” although i disagree with many of ideas…
you really have to decide, are dreams devine in nature, rubish, or conglomerations of our thoughts and experiances…
but think of this, we are social creatures, many of our thoughts and actions may be socially unacceptable. we might live those within our dreams, making them ‘wish fulfilment’ (freud’s theory)…
without dreams would we have deja vu? i heard somewhere that deja vu occurs when you live something that happened in a dream. so if thats true, then i just answered my own question. however, i dont remember where i heard/read it so id like someone to please verify if thats true. thanks
Hehe…I had the same kind of dream last night. Except it was this girl I already knew…but she’s not really my type in real life. What does that mean??
In regards to TheHairyGuy’s post, I get DejaVu aaall the time. I think it happens because my mind wanders alot, and sometimes when I’m not paying attention, my mind creates little “scenario’s” in my head that come and go quickly. These “scenario’s” could be maybe a feeling, or an image of something, or a succession of events that occur in a couple seconds. Even though I am not consciously aware of what my unconscience is doing, my mind still remembers these little “scenario’s” and whenever something happens that I already have a memory of doing, a feeling of DejaVu happens. I just had one a few days ago while driving down a dirt road.
I’m not sure if this has any basis at all…it’s just an explanation of what I think happens when DejaVu occurs. Of course, it could be a kind of premonition…but that’s a whole other topic.
Uh…anyway, not to get off topic from Dreams, I think that the reason we have types of dreams change all the time, depending on what the mind wants to dream. It could be a nightmare from a recent traumatic event, a “wet” dream…maybe after a date or something…, a dream that helps solve something when you fall asleep doing homework, a “wish fulfillment” dream like locke_key mentioned, or maybe it’s a dream about a music video of a song you heard while falling asleep. Dreams could just a way to sort out thoughts in our mind or to entertain ourselves while we regain our energy during sleep. I dunno
your explanation sounds a little far fethced my friend, but personally i think it isnt to far from the truth.
like i said before, “wish fulfilment,” was freud’s idea… but you can attribute it to all scenarios, even the nightmares… 
I’ve never heard of someone not having dreams. I have plenty. What i find odd is that they say dreams are usually only short instances measured in mere minutes but seem much longer. So if i’m asleep 8 hours and only remember one or two dreams, where did all that other time go? Some say you can’t dream in color but that’s false as i’ve done it as have many people i know. Some also say you can’t read in a dream for it uses 2 sides of the brain. I can’t say i’ve ever actually interpreted the words but i remember reading them aloud in the dream. Would that be an overactive imagination or reading what you want to read? Alot of people think dreams are subconsious fantasies, but who would want to be in their underwear at school in front of hundreds of people? Or falling off a building? Speaking of which, they say you can never die in your dreams and that you’ll always wake up. That’s interesting and has proven true for me. The falling dreams are the worst, attributed to total body relaxation. I used to have horrible dreams where everything would slow down and i’d be spinning through the air clinging to my bed.
I’ll tell you one thing, spending long hours on computer games gives me some vicious nightmares. After playing a few hours of Everquest or World of Warcraft, i have to do something else for a few hours before i sleep or else i’m constantly reliving the experience in my dreams, with usually unfavorable results.
Here’s a fun idea. Youngman, tell us what you dreamt and we’ll try to interpret it.
Something quite interesting is when youre almost asleep and you think the most stupid things... then either you fall asleep and dream, or fully wake up and think "I dont remember what was I saying to myself but I remember it was so crazy"
Why do you believe that you are awake now?
Can you see my difficulties?
Homo Mysticus
dreams are product of your imagination. your brain works even when your sleeping.
did someone here experienced, while sleeping or half awake, that you are conscious that you are sleeping and would want to wake up but can’t do so?
I find the interpretation of dreams to be more or less than what we think they are. Typically, a person’s dreamstate is the mind’s creativity sorting and recompiling past or recent memories. Sometimes these processes coincide with our real-time thought processing, developing an evolving or fluidly shifting dreamstate from one scene to another and usually having some level of significance as the unconcious mind trying to communicate something to the concious one.
Dreams resulting in deja vu are the handiwork of our latent psychic abilities of foresight. While in deep sleep, our concious mind is running on minimal system requirements, giving our unconcious mind the chance to delve into the future and cleverly incorporate a permanant snapshot of the future in our memory filing system.
To me, I’ve found these occurances of deja vu to be pointless and irrelevant. They mostly consist of moments of conversation or motion of the body in a point of time at a specific place. Of course, you stand there for a second and realize…you’ve been here or heard so-and-so before, yet you haven’t…and then you toil and ponder the meaning of this meaningless moment, as if the irrelevant point in time which now has passed was to serve as some kind of warning or message to the self.
Hah!