Are dreams anyway related to real life ???

India
August 26, 2009 7:59am CST
Are dreams anyway related to real life ??? I don't think so!!!
5 responses
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
According to Sigmund Freud (one of the big men in human psychology), dreams are the windows to the subconscious mind. This means that our innermost and hidden desires, those that are unknown even to us can manifest through our dreams. Although there are totally outrageous and random dreams that are extremely far from reality, certain scientists believe that there are corresponding interpretations to them that can be related to certain aspects of the dreamer's life. However, it is always normal to treat dreams as just dreams and enjoy the good ones. :)
@JDBentz (37)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I have had many occasions where I wondered if my dreams were influenced by my daily life, and it has become evident to me they are. Whether it be what you have been doing before you went to sleep, or your first thoughts afterward, dreams are influenced and can influence a person in real life. Sometimes, it's to give them the courage to take a chance. Sometimes it might just be saying, 'You're obsessed with this topic, get a life!' I have found that if I have a dream about someone I know beating me or otherwise causing me harm, physically or mentally, I have to avoid that person most of the next day in order to keep from carrying out a vengeance they don't deserve. Most of the time, this has occurred when I have had a conflict of any kind with the person in question, and go to sleep stewing over it. A person's subconscious is one of the main places where all these thoughts and feelings are stored. In dreams, we can act out scenarios we wouldn't or are unable to in real life. It's said a person can live a thousand lifetimes in a single eight-hour cycle of sleep. That is the truth, though we normally remember only one or two dreams that we have had. Depending on your life, something as absurd as flying with your own will-power pushing it might be seen as your subconscious desire to escape the burdens and difficulties you face. Or if you're the butt of your friend's jokes and the least likely in your family to be successful, in a dream you might be a hero or a millionaire, propelled above those who you see as believing you're not worth consideration. In other cases still, a person might be afraid to actually seek a relationship with someone who is a friend, and thus their mind will concoct a life with that person in dreams. This can become a recurring dream, just as dark influences in your life might create a recurring nightmare of your making. A person's life can influence their dreams, and their dreams can influence their life if they allow it. Some are strong-willed enough to see the difference and perhaps make it so that things become as they are in the dream, when it is viable. After all, flying through the air on your own will-power is not something a person can do in real life, but they can take control of their lives and make it theirs and not someone else's.
@dodo19 (47082)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
26 Aug 09
I think that some dreams are related to real life. I don't think that all of them are, but some of them are, in my opinion. It's happened that I've dreamed something that actually happened or was related to real life.
@yogambal_64 (1014)
• India
26 Aug 09
Most of the dreams are related to real life I feel, It is the subconscious mind that arouses the dream and most of my dreams are related to my life and the incidents that have taken place in my life.
@Abhii88 (214)
• India
26 Aug 09
i have to say a partial yes. When i was small i use to hear that what we think and talk about all day, we normally have a dream at night related to that only. Sometimes i do exactly have the same thing. But it is not true always. Many a time i dream something which i have never seen or felt about. If one sees something in dream which can be related to his future then he/she is not a normal man :P