Do you believe dreams have meanings?

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Philippines
February 1, 2009 1:21pm CST
I started this discussion 'cause I have a dream about my ex-boyfriend. I haven't think of him really, well, I don't know maybe subconsciously I do and I started to wonder again if dreams have meanings or should we just believe in what Science says about it. How about you? Are you the type of person that bothers when you dreamed of something and you think there's something behind it? that it's telling you something or you just ignore your dreams? Share to me your thoughts.
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• Philippines
17 Feb 09
they have meanings bec. we give meaning to them. they are products of our minds..we dream about something maybe bec. consciously or unconsciously we think about it or long for it...
• India
17 Feb 09
you are right that we do give meaning to them a lot and in a perticuler way only we see dreams
@kholid78 (341)
• Indonesia
1 Feb 09
Yes, but not all of dream have meanings. I prefer ignore them after all nicely, bacause it's can influence my spirit to do something
• Philippines
1 Feb 09
Yeah, I guess, 'cause I think if we can't get it out of our head, we'll just end up thinking and thinking about it, a complete waste of time. It shouldn't suppose to bother us unless it was really a very bad dream. I haven't had one in a long time fortunately.
@mjanne (251)
• China
18 Feb 09
I think sometimes dreams tell me some thing about myself. I believe there is meanings behind the dream. But not all of them. Only very special dreams let me take notice. To be honest, I often forgot what I have dreamed when I awake.
@SmilyQin (179)
• China
18 Feb 09
Yes,I used to think about certain things when I went to bed everyday.And the other day when I got up,I suddenly remembered that I had a dream about the things I concerned last night,sometimes I think it is a magical mystical,is it ?
@victorywp (3524)
• United States
18 Feb 09
i think dreaming about your ex is a very normal thing because a part of him already grown in you (or maybe still growing in you?). so if you want to say that the dreams have meaning behind it, i think it simply means you are still thinking of him (maybe subconsciously as you said). for me, i will not be bothered about my dreams because there are too many normal things & random things & even nonsense in my dreams. however for some particular cases, the dreams that i have ignored will turn out to be true & happens one day, & i just realized that i have dreamt about it before.
• China
18 Feb 09
I dream every night and it really drive me crazy because it makes me feel so tired in the morning. I hate dream. Sometimes i even dream some very stange things. Like last night, i dreamt that a little pig just bit me without reason and it really hurt and it made me awake. Terrible. I don't know what is this dream suggest. Maybe the little cute just telling not eat animal's meat, right? ^_^. Oh, dream. I think we should not pay more attention to our dream because few of them is shows what's in your mind or we will feel so confused just like the moment i waked by the dream last night. But i don't think it's worth my confusing, it's just a dream, a phenomena.
@lucy02 (5016)
• United States
15 Feb 09
I think sometimes our dreams have a meaning but sometimes they're just random stuff. I have had a few odd dreams that actually happened. I've also dreamed stuff that turned out to be happening to close friends of mine as I was dreaming it.
• Romania
17 Feb 09
i believe only in coincidence,
@anaknitatay (1335)
• Philippines
15 Feb 09
I believe dreams have meanings but whether it is our subconscious trying to tell us something or something more divine I do not know.
• India
17 Feb 09
i had so many time but i dont care about the meaning of that perticuler dream because it hurts me a lot and make me feel in the situation when i use to feel that time i was with him
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
yes, i think dreams have meaning. it is a product of our unconscious mind. maybe, try to evaluate your self, why you have dream of your ex.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
15 Feb 09
I'm sure there are a lot of meaning to dreaming, but unfortunately we don't know what the meanings are.
• Egypt
17 Feb 09
Most dreams have meanings some would be about something your subconscious trying to tell you and others would be about things that would happen, i once dreamed that my friend told me something in high school, and the following day she did. My sisters are freaky they always dream about who's gonna die or get hurt and it always happen. freaky.