Do you experience things in your dreams, but not in life?

Dreams are a great thing, they will tell you things about yourself that no person could see. They are there for you to grow and to learn. My grandmother said, "do not let anyone interpret your dreams for you, they are there for you to learn." My grandmother was really spiritual and that coming from her mouth was very weird. Then two weeks later she died of a complications from a stroke.

So don't let anyone interpret your dreams for you, all they can do is give you their opinions on what they mean. Your dreams are for you to interpret.

But yeah, as other people have said, the road is your path in life. If you follow it in your dream, you will follow it in life.

It could be that your mind more easily slips into the REM cycle. According to doctors, the mind slips into REM sleep after several hours, or after a few primary sleep cycles have occured; I, personally, have had lucid dreams within ten-minute naps.
By my admittedly bizarre theories, I should congratulate you. Your mind is inherently different from the masses.

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I have done this also a few times and i did something similar but it started to cause sleep paralysis for me which is not fun at all. You wake up from lucid dreaming and can see but not hear or move. It still happens once in a while .

That's pretty interesting that you can have lucid dreams during short naps, I too thought that dreaming could only occur after you'd been asleep for a good while, but it seems that for a lot of people this is not the case? Apparently science doesn't have an answer for everything...

Anyone here experience dreaming while they are still awake?
I've had that happen, not lucid dreaming but just the regular kind, when I am not even asleep, but only extremely bored and on the verge of drifting off, it is a very bizarre feeling to be supposedly 'dreaming' while your eyes are still open! I have to literally shake it off, lol

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Which part of REM in relation to which part of waking life is similar brain activity-wise? All of the studies I've seen shows that during REM there is a storm of activity that could almost be called erratic.

As far as the psycho-analytical approach to dream interpretation, it is grounded in much truth, but yes there is a portion of dreams and dreaming that most scientists won't touch with a 10 foot pole. Such as things like astral project, out of body experiences, spirit communication, ET encounters, etc. All of them can be worked into a psycho-analytical conceptual context, but that doesn't always explain the entire dream-event and it's various messages. At the same time, it's unwise to disregard what so many intelligent & accomplished psychologists have found out which coincides and is congruent with any kind of "mystery school" of dreaming and/or self taught method of interpretation and control.

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That's half-true advice honestly. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with someone else interpreting your dreams if it's not to serve there needs and is done with pure intention of sharing perspective to maybe offer assistance and/or insight. However it is good advice not let someone else tell you what your dream meant. Dreams come down to this no matter what, which is that everything in your dream is you, and your interpretation of the world you live in & it's influence. So only you truly know what the message that your subconscious is trying to tell you (or for you to give to someone else for that matter). but at the same time, someone else might in fact know exactly what your dream was about whether you believe or like it or not. Refusing aid is just pure pride and egotism.

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It's not the duration of time it's the fact the cycle happen is more the case. So when they say it takes "X" amount of time, that's usually just because that is what the average they saw during their tests where. I've personally witnessed those different cycles from a lucid state, watching my day get transmorphed into dream-sign symbols, as well as the body check portion, which tells me our consciousnesses can do whatever we want when we want, as long as we don't scare ourselves

dear dreamer,

dreaming can sometimes be much more than most people think.

research Carlos Casteneda. also look up lucid dreaming. from now on, you should concentrate on looking at your hands in your dreams before you fall asleep.

seriously!!!! have you ever been able to pick where your dream takes place and what you do in your dream???

i have. i was only able to do it for two weeks for some reason but they were the best times of my life ( ability to fly etc... you imagine it, it can happen and yes to any question you are asking yourself)

you must believe first

good luck

Well I dream about things the night before they happen- like the night before the plane went crashed into the Hudson River- I dreamt about a plane crash. They happen so regularily that I said to my husband that morning- well i dreamt about a plane crash today- looks like there is going to be one.

It could very well be a pyschic impression- not to be dismissed just yet. Begin logging these events that make an impression on you. They could begin to unfold in the news. Then- next time another one happens- you might be able to solve a crime and help the police. This happens alot more than you might think.

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I have dreamt of many things which I have never experienced. Many kinds of things are conceivable to the senses, especially in this age of television and movies. Our dreaming minds are not strictly limited to replaying our waking experiences.

On the other hand, in the past week, I have dreamt of sounds like nothing I have ever heard before, and colours like nothing my eyes have ever seen, and I think these dream perceptions are beyond what my ears and eyes could ever possibly relay to my brain. So I question how this could be?

I have had dreams about 3 times now where I was physically flying. When I woke up it was like I knew exactly what it would be like to fly, but how could I possibly know that? Either way I knew the feeling, and it was really great and as far as I know that could have been an OBE because of how real it was, or it could have been a really vivid dream. Regardless, it was fun!

It is common to experience things you never had.

I had a dream once where I needed to get out of a basement but there were alligators. So I turned myself into an alligator , and fought the other alligators to get myself out out of there! Now I have never experienced being an alligator in life, but an interesting dream none the less.

I think most dreams are this way.

Maybe you were feeling abandoned , or you felt vulnerable and this caused you to dream this, maybe it was nothing at all.

I've always thought that dreams could be a tuning in to actual parallel worlds in
other dimensions. Go ahead and laugh, no one agrees with me, but if you read
Michio Kaku's works on string theory -- Parallel Worlds -- you'll see how this might be
possible.

Did you know that science really does not yet know precisely what dreams are? They
will admit that they do not have hard evidence or data to understand what dreams
really are, but it is almost universally presumed (based on Freud) that dreams are
psychological fantasies and nothing more. But Freud did not know of string theory,
Multi-Verse theory, parallel worlds, and the work of present day physicists like Kaku
and Brian Greene, and Lisa Randall just to name a few.

Dreams just might be a tuning in (like tuning a TV to a broadcast channel) of other
realities in other dimensions.

Oh, it couldn't be, you reason... my dreams are so absurd they couldn't be alternate
realities.. but wait... read Kaku and understand that in some realms, copies of ourselves exist and in those realms physics are different from what we know in our
world.

That being the case, if you begin to buy into the multiverse theory (and I know most
of you will just laugh at it)... you can see (if you buy into it as I have) that dreams
may be a glimpse into real, parallel worlds that do exist.

I know, your dreams are absurd so they must be just "make believe", but hey,
some of these parallel worlds are just that absurd... and a copy of you exists there
in those trillions of parallel realities.

Originally posted by switching yard
I've always thought that dreams could be a tuning in to actual parallel worlds in
other dimensions. Go ahead and laugh, no one agrees with me, but if you read
Michio Kaku's works on string theory -- Parallel Worlds -- you'll see how this might be
possible.

I've never read up on string theory(yet) but tapping another dimension or parallel universe is something I've never ruled out.

It makes sense that other planets and civilizations have far more advanced technologies than we do, and given the way people on our own planet interfere with other people's lives it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the people on our planet are interacted with similarly.