Can dreams really be explained?

@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
April 15, 2009 1:34pm CST
I had a weird one the other night. I don't remember all of it but I do remember there was a cat, lactating, and her nipples were color coded and I remember thinking that made perfect sense (based on the part of the dream that I don't remember). Now surely this is just my mind going strange places. Or can you place a meaning to this?
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
15 Apr 09
I have looked in all the dream books and websites that I know of for 'color coded cat nipples' and I cannot find a single reference. Of course, though, color coded nipples makes a lot of sense if you have more than two and especially if you have more than one kitten to suckle. Never mind that cats are supposed to be color blind (they are not, actually, but they see colors in a more 'watered down' version than we do). In order to assign a meaning to this, I think we shall need access to the part of the dream that you don't remember ... please lie down on this couch while I dim the lights and swing this cat toy back and forth ... back and forth ... in front of your eyes ......... you are feeling drowsy and warm in a pleasant place ........ you feel all the tension draining from you starting at your head .... draining down ... through your neck and arms and out of your finger tips ...... .... [snap] .... there, you are already feeling much better and becoming alert. In fact, you are fully awake now and feeling more alive and alert than you remember doing recently. Please pay my receptionist the fee of $250 as you go out ... what was that? Your dream? Oh, nothing important ... just an obsession with cats and nipples ... perfectly normal ... don't worry about it.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
Thank you very much Dr. Owlwings, for both the laugh and the therapy. Be sure to PM me your address so that I can mail you your check. Please don't sit waiting there holding your breath as it may take a very long time to arrive.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
15 Apr 09
Being an owl, I can appear to hold my breath and stay still for incredible periods of time. My 'e'mowl address is, of course To:wh@to.whoo ... '@' is the nearest that one gets to IT in owlish. What are $? Are they anything like small snakes on sticks? Very tasty! 250 of them might give me the burps!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
We just put up snake fencing, otherwise I'd send you some...
@commanderxo (1494)
• Canada
16 Apr 09
Yes...dreams CAN be explained, and you don't need to become a psychiatrist to know how to interpret them either. First and foremost...EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in your dream, is a representation of YOU. Now don't laugh, but that doesn't actually mean that you're a cat. On the contrary, think of what a cat MEANS to you. How would you say your latest ACTIONS might seem? Have you been secretive lately? WHICH colors were the nipples? What do each of those colors MEAN to you? How do they AFFECT you when you see/wear them? What SIDE did the cat choose to lactate on? Left or right nipple? Both? And lastly...if whatever seemed to make PERFECT SENSE to you by seeing this SYMBOLIC DESCRIPTION, then what was it? Do you see where I'm going with this? Remember...you ARE your dream, and your dreams are descriptive REPRESENTATIONS of your everyday reality. If I were to interpret your dream? I'd say that you were recently faced with a "choice dilemma", but remained silent about making a decision, until you figured out what you were going to do about it, or what are going about to do about it. cdrxo
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
I'd say that you were recently faced with a "choice dilemma", but remained silent about making a decision, until you figured out what you were going to do about it That would be very typical of me. Cats are comforting. Being organized is comforting. Maybe there's something linking the two...
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• Canada
17 Apr 09
True enough, and I agree, linked...by understanding that cats ONLY feed when they are hungry (Which is quite often, I might add.). Yet the "thirst" for knowledge, is what keeps us forever growing, and hopefully, what keeps us on an even keel. (Organization + the comfort of "hopefully knowing" we made correct choices, or paths to take.) What we DO with that knowledge, determines our active/re-active behavior. For example: "Outlook, determines outcome." Cheers; cdrxo
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• Canada
16 Apr 09
Sorry...sentence correction there. ..."or what "you" are going to do about it." My error. cdrxo
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@riyasam (16556)
• India
16 Apr 09
maybe you love babies and at that time you desired to give them cuddle!!! happy dreaming!!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
or kittens...
• India
16 Apr 09
every dream n night to sleep...... time desired one. g8.......
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@katsalot1 (1618)
15 Apr 09
No, I can't explain it, but it does make perfect sense if the kittens were also colour coded! Each to their own colour. Maybe it just shows that you are a very logical person.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
That could be it. I don't quite remember the kittens though...
• India
16 Apr 09
i really love petss..........
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
Me too, especially cats...
• United States
15 Apr 09
There can be dreams that are indeed, just dreams. However, we can find meaning with most dreams depending upon our situation, their placement in our life, and so forth. Color coded (depending upon color) could represent a few things. It represent a need for order in your life, or something that your brain is trying to put in order. If you think about a filing system, sometimes things are given color codes. If they were specific colors they could represent colors within the Tree of Life, colors within Magick itself, or so forth. In terms of the nipples/lactation it's very possible this meant a need for nourishment either physical or emotional/spiritual. That really will have to be for you to decide. It's interesting how our brain deals with things. Some things are just things we've seen in the day that our brain tries to put into a logical order, but sometimes it is using those daily things to bring our attention to something we need to work on in our life. Hope that helps. Namaste-Anora
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
All of those things are pretty much true. Whether or not they relate to the dream, who knows?
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
I don't keep a dream log. I actually don't dream that often (not so I remember anything). Would be interesting to try it though. More dreams lately, but then there's an awful lot going on in my life.
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• United States
15 Apr 09
That's just it Dawn. It's up to you, the dreamer, to decide how much you will take and use to learn from, and how much you will dismiss. Do you keep a dream log/journal? You might want to start logging all of your dreams/dates and if things occur during the weeks, months, years to come note them back near the dream they occured in. Such as, let's say you have some new spiritual teaching that comes your way or new information you might note that next to this dream and the date it occured. You mentioned in another thread which I saw second to this thread about finding out you had Aspergers. That may indeed relate to this dream in that you found a "name" and thus "nourishment" to the issues that had no name or reason before. So, depending upon the color, etc you could have found Binah (Understanding), Chokmah (Wisdom), or Daath (Gnosis/Understanding). Though, you may have found those and the colors have nothing to do with it. Namaste-Anora
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@Citychic (4067)
• United States
15 Apr 09
Can dreams really be explained, Hi there, in my dream book, I remember it says that if you have a dream of a cat that is a good omen, something good is going to be happening in your life. I will let you know the full meaning of it the next time that we chat but this is all that readily comes to mind....... peace out....E
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
Something good would be really appreciated!!!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
I may start doing that. More than one person has recommended it...
• India
16 Apr 09
even cat drink milk in every day........
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
23 Apr 09
i guess they should be and can be explained since there are a lot of things we ought to know about the things our sleeping mind has to say... it is the unconscious, still is a part of us and still bears its own meanings.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Apr 09
Was looking at a website about explaining dreams and it says not to look for anything outside of myself by way of an explanation...
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
17 Apr 09
I think that there are minimal aspects of dreams that could possibly be categorized into common or accurate explanations, but overall, there are so many factors that influence our subconscious it would be difficult to explain one in entirety. What we need to be is in tune with ourselves so we can piece together our dreams and "decode" them for ourselves as best we can. They may not make sense at the time, but in many instances they'll make sense at a later date. I'd be writing dreams down for that very reason. I have no idea what your own dream may mean either and believe only you can work that one out!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 Apr 09
Probably true.
@enigma_85 (111)
• Australia
16 Apr 09
What a funny dream! I can understand because I have a number of dreams every night out of which only a few are meaningful and related to my life.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
Yep, very funny.
@coolmailraj (2460)
• India
16 Apr 09
I can't think of a thing your dream points to and I don' think that anyone describe a dream fully. There is always one part or another that goes missing, if nothing else you won't be able to describe the exact look of the place you were at and the exact way people and things looked like in you dream.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
Not exactly, that's for sure!
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@chillpill90 (1936)
16 Apr 09
some dreams can be explained as in a sense people believe that the are subconscious messages, but its hard to find a real meaning some doctors cant even do it. But i do believe they have a meaning.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
Some are certainly more obvious than others...
@skyla26 (284)
• Philippines
16 Apr 09
dreams can really be explained by the person who dream for his/her dream after a person wake up i know that a he/she can still remember what they dream about.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
Maybe
@sblossom (2168)
16 Apr 09
I usually have dreams a lot. I think dream connects our real life. It's very complicated, but sometimes when you worry something in day time, your dream would appear in night time. The dream would connect your experience or what you warry. Blossom
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
I think they sometimes do. Other times I don't see the connection at all!
• India
16 Apr 09
ever dream in pets animal.. they r lot worry about it....
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@David816 (23)
• United States
16 Apr 09
I like to think of dreams as your bodies way of playing a movie, only with random reels. Some can be related to things going on in your life, while others can have nothing to do with anything. That's why I stopped worrying about dreams. They just seem to confuse people.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
I'm not particularly worried. I think it's funny.
• United States
16 Apr 09
Maybe it just means you are very organized, and want everything around you to be nice, neat, and ordered? Sometimes dreams don't mean anything.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
yeah that or that or?
@savypat (20216)
• United States
15 Apr 09
First thing I would ask is how you felt during and after the dream? Then I would guess that you life needs order in it or is very strictly regulated. How'd I do?
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
During the dream it was kind of like an "aha moment" when I saw the nipples and after the dream I just thought it was funny (both peculiar and hilarious)...
@suveer35 (98)
• India
15 Apr 09
Hi there ,where dreams are the mirror image of a persons mind i.e what is going in his mind.they reflect the persons thoughts and desires.as far as your this dream is concerned I can say You love your work and pet equally very much.In the busy scedule of your life i.e work you cannot give time to your pets so you combined both of them in your dreams so as to give them both equal time.............
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Apr 09
I'd say I love my pets WAY more than I love my work. But my work does consume quite a bit of my time!
• India
16 Apr 09
i know that place.............i ask peronally...
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
What place? Dream land?
@agv0419 (3022)
• Philippines
16 Apr 09
Someone can explain our dreams. Sometimes dreams is helpful sometimes it can give us warning like what happened to my mom. She dreamed about the accident of my youngest sister. She dreamed that my sister was fell in the tree. So she warned my sister not to go outside but never listened to her. Her dreams came true, my sister was accidentally cut her arm with the sharp end of the drum. So they rush her in the hospital for some stiches because the cut was so deep and shot her immediately with anti tetanus.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Apr 09
That must have been scary.