I gave up on dream theory because my dreams are usually so insane that I can't fathom there being any meaning to them.

For example. I had a dream I was at work in the shop, and two of my female co workers were there. For some reason there was a shallow pool in the middle of the floor. At the bottom of the pool was a Buddha statue, and roughly a dozen rectangular rune stones that were made of gold silver and copper and were arranged with all these strange markings. I don't remember what was said but I went into the water, and pulled the buddha and then walked outside to go to the shed.

When in the shed a former co worker was sitting on the stairs leading up stairs and his head was stretching like a Picasso painting. He told me to go into the basement of the shop. So I walked back to the shop went into the basement, which ended up being my basement at home since the shop doesn't have a basement. I walked up to the work bench and looked out the window to see cartoon animals playing outside in the snow. The was a cartoon deer, sparrow, rabbit, and a racoon dressed in winter otufits with hats, scarves, and gloves.

Then I woke up.

I fail to see how that could possibly mean anything that I was meant to figure out. Dreams may have meaning to them, but I don't think anyone has the meanings 100% right.

You're right.
Dream anaylsis is very tricky and subjective, but this is what I got out of your dream:

I think your dream suggests that you really like this girl, but any efforts you take to pursue her are in vain. In the dream you are trying to "save" her, but it seems like she's always just out of your grasp. Perhaps you feel like you can't be with her, no matter how "super" you are. Perhaps you are scared of losing her?

That's just my two cents. I'm not a shrink or anything, but I love doing research about dreams. Not just about dream analysis (which is so subjective), but about the science of dreaming itself. I really like the website dreammoods.com.

I can't remember all of a dream but from what I remember, I was dressed as some indiana jones like explorer and was walking over a rickety wooden bridge overlooking a grey canyon with a raging river inside. I take a step and the bridge breaks and I fall into the river and I literally felt the air pressure and wind around me. Later, I wake up and see that I'm surrounded by a group of apparently cultists from Lovecraft dressed in these strange purple robes. I'm tied to a chair and the cultists give me a poison purple pill when I wake up immediately after taking the pill with the WORST stomachache I've ever had. What does that mean and does the symptoms I've had weird people out?

From time to time I have a dream about the girl I like.

For example

My senior class all went to washington dc for some odd reason maybe a class trip. We're riding in the back of semi flat bed and the girl I like is beside me. So I start up a really good conversation and than we stop and she leaves I could've gone but I didn't. Somehow I end up in a huge theater and randomly sit down with a girl I've been texting for a while but I dont really like her. She comes on to me and does some hand signals. But I'm to interested in the movie and I dont care about her. Than the dream ends.

My analysis

The girl I really like will usually have out of nowhere conversations that last for about 3 hours than I have to go or she has to go. This is mostly because its late at night and we have school the next day. Maybe its hinting I should ask her to go out with me or I can never have her. For the other chick maybe I should give her a chance and try to be more interested. Who knows.

Any help on this one?

When I've talked to other people about my dreams, they always seem intrigued that I never dream that I'm myself.
Seriously, maybe thrice in my entire life I dreamed that I was myself. Sometimes, I'm just a spectator in my dreams..

My dreams are really bizarre...
When I was little, I had a dream that I was in my old backyard in Texas, and I heard the phone ring up in my room (though I never had a telephone), and so I ran upstairs to answer it. It was a humongous phone, and after I answered it and hung up, I tried to go back downstairs. However, little green men appeared and began to surround me, but then my father Sub-Zero(!!!) and my real-life mother came in and scared them off...Make sense? No? Didn't think so..

One of the strangest:
I was watching over this island, which was all white-washed buildings and streets. A couple was going to get married, but the women got separated from the groom and the groomsmen. So, some woman, covered in black ooze, with a disfigured face found her, and stuck this horrible-looking mask on her face, and then took the woman's appearance. The doppelganger woman was about to marry the groom, when the groomsmen found the true bride and then she reverted back to normal form, and the couple got married...

If anyone understands these, please enlighten me...they make zero sense to me.

As to what OP was asking, I think StormChaser did a nice job summarizing it. Dreams are very subjective, though..

I think you head nail on the head. Yes, I really do like this girl and I have tryed to pursue her but failed. Last couple of weeks I been thinking about staying away from her because it fucking me up too much but I don't want to lose her as friend either so I'm stuck on crossroads.

I been using that dreammoods.com as well.



I don't know. This girl you like, have you tryed ask her out?

or it could mean you do like other girl but your too focus on girl you do like to notice other girl

I haven't asked her out but apparently she's dating another guy. Its sketchy mostly because the guy she's dating is sheltered he just asked her to the movies. I don't know I don't have any classes with her anymore so it kinda sucks.

It's just a dream; there's no deeper meaning behind it, and it's just something your brain does to entertain yourself while you sleep. People can train themselves to manipulate their dreams, so any and all meanings associated with images and presentations of situations go out the window when you're making some of that stuff happen and not realizing it.

but if person doesn't have control of their dream then subconscious must play part and sometime subconscious is trying tell you something. I do agree with people can train control their dreams because I can do sometime. For example, before I had that zombie/superhero dream, I was dreaming that I was kicking Shao Kahn's ass. What dream ment, nothing at all but I do believe some dreams can have meaning like zombie/superhero dream. Key part of those dreams was me being superhero and this girl. Like I said before StormChaser has got right why I had this dream but I also agree with you that some dream can be just be random shit that has no meaning at all.

I would love see mature debate between you and StormChaser because it would very interesting see what both sides would have to say

Way to be a downer man.

There's not much of a debate here though. Dream theory is far from proven, it's just a theory. Could be right, could be wrong. But unlike a proven theory, dream theory has nothing to back it up, no facts, no tests, no data, just people guessing more or less(Usually hippies). Dreams are subjective to how the person experiences them. How I see my dreams could be totally different from how dream theory sees them.

I guess my point being that there is no dream to english dictionary. If there is meaning in dreams, there isn't a soul on the planet divine enough to understand them. In science dreams are random chemical induced hallucinations which occur in the brain while you're sleeping. Your brain uses the time spent in those dreams to process the visual, audio, and textile experiences you go through during the day. Science may not always be right but in this case I think it has a leg up on dream theory.

Also just to note but your brain dreams every night non stop until you wake up. There's only so much meaning to have before it becomes meaningless and 8 hours of dreams adds up.

You could spend your whole life chasing what your dreams mean instead of living them.

Wow that was really corny :p

I agree with that dream theory is just that... theory. It is an imperfect science at best. It's easy to research the sun or plants or bugs because they're tangible objects, but a dream is more abstract. I personally believe (and so do some dream researchers), that a dream is a place where you can express subconcious desires/fears/ traumas safely. It's a psychological protection mechanism.

I think you need to read up on a psychoanalyst called Sigmund Freud, he's like the primary analyst on dreams. Saying that the brain gives us dreams to "entertain" ourselves whilst we sleep is rubbish, because enjoyment and leisure is something that humans created themselves. Plus, animals dream as well. Dreams are most definitely to do with memories and events, mostly they're said to be a way of accessing your unconscious mind. I know it's all theory, but saying that dreams are for entertainment is ridiculous; if that were so then why do we have nightmares?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/psychoanalysis

Perhaps I was being too specific about dreams being for entertainment, but that doesn't grant them a deep meaning either now; a lot of Freud's theories have been disproved too.
I had a dream once that I was Magneto in a sky-scrapper fighting some random office workers and security guards until I decided to jump out the window and level the entire building while slowly descending to the ground. Should one assume that I desire a life of violence and terrorism just because I was Magneto? Probably not, but anybody can interpret that part of my dream with hundreds of ideas. How about we add the fact that moments after, I landed in a river and met up with Luke Wilson, even though I hadn't (and haven't) seen a Luke Wilson film before? Dreams don't just take what you've seen and know, they can even make up random crap.
devilwithin also brought up how he had a dream where he was fighting and kicking Shao Kahn's ass, yet because this dream, the superman/zombie thing, had a girl he knew in it, it MUST have meaning; why? Heck, maybe we should be more worried that he fought Shao Kahn and interpret it as him wanting to take Shao Kahn's kingdom to be the new ruler of Outworld, and eventually, EARTH!
Also, just as dreams are subjective, so are nightmares...

We ain't saying ALL dreams have meaning. Some dreams must have some kind of meaning to it.

The mind can effect the body nearly everyway so not our dreams. Example: In Everybody loves raymond, Robert does thing where eat food but he got to touch chin first before eating it. Find out it was something do with his mum feeding ray when they were babys. It shit example but I hope you get idea. If mind can effect us like that when why not can brain effect our dreams in way that could have meaning.

I keep a dream journal, and as I've read back through it, I've noticed some patterns and themes that keep repeating themselves. Perhaps it's just my pattern of thinking that keeps these symbols/themes consistant in my dreams, or perhaps my brain is trying to tell me something.

Once in high school I was working on a math problem I just couldn't figure out. I went to bed, and I actually figured out a way to solve it in my dream. I woke up and used the strategy on the problem, and it worked. Kind of off-subject, but interesting nonetheless.

If you say that a dream is meaningless "chatter" between your neurons, you might as well say that your waking hopes, aspirations, and personality are too.

A goal without a plan is just a wish; hopes and aspirations are meaningless if you have no intention on making them a reality and never learn how to make them a reality.
One's personality has nothing to do with who they are in their sleep, it's who they are when they are awake. A dream can involve a lot of things, but that doesn't mean that whoever you are in a dream necessarily means that that's who you are in real life.

Okay, but with that being said, where do you draw the line? When does a dream go from being ridiculous to defining you as a person? When does a dream go from entertainment to prophecy? You can't arbitrarily choose what dreams deserve analysis and what dreams don't when one could argue that every aspect of a dream is important, from the texture of the carpet you fall on, to the people you see. It's just subjective to the dreamer.
Heck, personally, I'd love to hear more about you fighting Shao Kahn than you being a superhero fighting zombies, since zombies are so overdone; heck, who'd have thought they'd infect all media, including peoples' minds?

...Wait a second Jerrod...

I believe dreams can have meaning to them. Sleep = healing sessions for the body. Dreaming constitutes the mental and, whether or not we're able to understand that we were dreaming, the visual portion (but especially when we are able to). We retain a lot of what we have learned throughout a day because of sleep and, therefor, I also believe that dreams can mix around experiences and influences (however subtle they really can be) throughout a day.

For a lot of the dreams I have been able to interpret, they work a lot like the guy a few posts up, with the math problem / solution. Except, some of them are number problems, and others are lengthy word problems... Or, they're intense or, complex visualized problems that I may have needed to understand.

I think dreams can definitely allow us safe ways to use more of our brain. Unrestricted by the emotional apprehensions of our awake selves. Free of logic or reason, unorthodox methods of solving an issue we may be having are possible.

Exactly, where do we draw line? Problem is the line is differnt with each person.


Ok then, it was set MK vs DC. I was only one realise that neither universe was trying to take over but Raiden wouldn't listen so I had to challenge Shao Kahn to stop anything bad happening. I fired a projectile but it did nothing. Shao Kahn was cheating as he normaly does so I thought why not me? He throw is war hammer at me but I did matrix dodge and grab the thing and started hitting him. He started to fire arrows but I just grab them all and fired them back. After that I woke up. Before you say anything, that dream pass the line and has no meaning

There's a reason I didn't address StormChaser about that part of her post, because I do agree that sleeping and dreaming can have some uses with regards to helping out in solving little problems like that, as it's even helped me figure things out with regards to math and video game problems... But trying to delve deeper with the dreams to the point where everything has meaning, as opposed to just giving a solution to tasks that one has spent a day or two working on, is completely different.
Yes, sleep and dreams can help with some issues like logic problems or story writing, but to argue that the dream is revealing to devilwithin that he's feeling overburdened because the zombies in the dream are supposed to represent that, or that he dreamt about a girl that he liked represents a girl that he likes shows that dreams reveal deep-rooted feelings and psychological answers is a little silly. Did dw really need the dream to indicate that he liked that girl? Is he truly feeling depressed, detached, and emotionally distant from people, and would he have even felt that way if it turned out that zombies represented happiness and good fortune instead?

Too late! It's my turn to interpret your dream!
You dreamt about MK because you like the series and are exposed to it frequently.
You dreamt that Raiden wasn't listening to you because in MKvDC, he doesn't listen to reason until it's too late, and you, being the guy who played the game and knows the story, are trying to change it to make it better.
You dreamt about fighting Shao Kahn instead of Dark Kahn because you side more with the MK side, not DC, so they weren't important, and therefore, neither was the combo character of the two franchises.
Matrix dodge: ever film parodies it, and it's so overused that it wound up in your dream so that you'd look like a badass against the ultimate evil in your dream. You grabbed his hammer because just like a lot of us, I'm sure you've always wanted to play the game and wreck characetrs with his MK3 Hammer moves.
And you whopped him because I'm sure you've done it enough times in the series that it'd become a nightmare if you didn't this time.
See? Was that so bad or difficult? I didn't whip out Freud or a dream dictionary, I just looked at what I knew about you, and put it all together. How far off was I?

Stormchaser= female

I never played MKvDC and last MK game was Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Your close with hammer but I always wanted to grab his hammer and hit him. Next bit I am shame say, I never beat Shao Kahn in old mk games. I only played it at arcade so I never had money to do it.

Other thing, you just analysing dream and just give it meaning. That where I agree with you I don't believe in dream dictionary 100% and thats why I like to analyse dreams by what I know

Anyway, where did you get deep-rooted feelings and psychological answers from? We just said there dreams can have meaning to it.
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Anyway, I think it long over due and it's time for me analyse my dream.

StormChaser, She got it right all long but the key thing to her comment was she left out zombies. Why? That easy, that night I was with my pals and talking about black and white films and I said I like Night of the living dead. I was shocked find that I wasn't only one in group:

A: Seen the original film
B: Like the film

With that talk still in my head that night, I dreamed zombies were bad guys. If I had not had that talk then dream could have been just been me as superhero and girl I really like.