Is there any truth to the reasoning that the dreams we have tell us something about how we think and feel while we are awake?

I believe that our dreams are often a reflection of things that are going on in our waking life, especially if those dreams are repeated or somehow related in theme. I've never actually studied dream interpretation because it seems to me that a particular object or occurance in the dream can mean different things to different people, but that we can relate their significance to things In our own lives. In my own case, for years I had dreams that revolved around different types of buildings, seldom my own home but of strange and unusual ones.

Usually I was searching for something in that building. What struck me was that once I committed myself to Christ, those types of dreams stopped. Is he what I was looking for?

After I was saved, I began to have dreams in which I was usually embarassed or felt awkward; in one I went to work in my bathrobe, in another I was wearing a short dress and my slip was hanging way below the hemline, stuff like that. I don't think that it meant that I was embarassed to be Christian, but perhaps I was finally willing to admit my mistakes and vulnerabilities, and not only to myself. So while some weird dreams may only mean that we ate too much spicy food before bedtime or that we're watching too many scary movies, I think that when we have dreams of a consistent and similar nature that it pays to look inside ourselves and try to understand what those dreams are telling us.

God often spoke to people in dreams in the Bible, and I believe He still does that on occasion, so it may be wise to pay attention to our dreams!

I think it's more or less universally accepted that dreams are affected by our day to day lives, experiences and feelings. Because of this, I think it makes sense to say that your dreams tell you something about how you think and feel when awake. If you keep track of your dreams and try to pinpoint what influenced them to be the way they were, I think there's a good chance that you may learn something about your real life during the day.

You may have thoughts or emotions that you either aren't fully aware of or choose not to be fully aware of. Analyzing your dreams can, in certain cases, be a good way to find some clarification.

Sigmund Freud felt that dreams were an important part of psychology but the majority of his views are now considered dated. I personally wouldn't put a large amount of merit in the specifics of dreams.

I think so. Your dreams are like your mind on a film without you playing the director. You get to see things you never knew you knew, and never knew you'd think.

However for you to know it and it to be in your dreams you would need to have felt or thought it awake. Course imo that goes for regular dreams only, not prophetic, lucid, or past life dreaming.

I believe that we can somehow pick up on certain things while sleeping. Now it has been said that when you sleep and dream, you are putting all of the things you have experienced like things you saw, heard, or maybe watched on t.v. And your mind sort of puts all of that together and makes it's own movie.

I do however think that it goes a bit deeper than that. I know there are several people who have literally seen the future while dreaming, so it would make perfect sense for someone to our dreams giving us a path and digging deep to explain in a sense how we feel truly. Now this theory has been debated for as long as the world has existed I am sure, but is it really that outrageous?

Humans only use about half of their brain, so maybe while we are sleeping we use the other half to dig into our inner most feelings and pick up on other things as well.

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