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Questions about dreams / Vivid Dreams
« on: June 10, 2014, 08:10:12 AM »
I have always hear that we dream the entire time we are sleeping, however I rarely remember dreaming at all, even immediately upon waking. Therefore, when I do remember a dream, it tends to stick with me and bother my thoughts for quite some time afterward.

One dream I remember was in high school, which for me was many many years ago. I had a dream I was following a classmate who was an evil prophet and eventually killed someone to protect this boy's life. Very Children-of-the-Corn-esque.

The next time I remember vivid dreams, I had a series of dreams that were truly horrifying. Death, destruction, apocalyptic type dreams where I was trying to run but instead wading through bodies and gore. That was while I was pregnant with a daughter who died at full-term, though nothing was wrong with her. Her death was a cord accident, so no prior warning.

Another time, I had a series of dreams about a man I knew. In the dream, we were both single (and neither of us actually were single at the time of the dreams) and I had very vivid dreams about the stages of our dating, the struggles, the decisions on whether to marry, the struggles when we decided to do so, etc. Oddly, he and I were both eventually single later, but never did have the desire to date. And no, I didn't tell him about my dreams! Though at the time I was having them they caused me a LOT of distress and guilt.

The dream I posted on the interpretations board is a dream I had recently and like the others, it has really been nagging at my thoughts since I almost never dream.

So my question is...How often do you remember dreams? Are they always very vivid like the few I have described here, and,  are you like me and rarely remember them, so when you do, you must seek meaning in them?

I have a feeling that were I to dream more, or remember my dreams, whatever the case may be, it would be beneficial to my waking life. But even when I wake before the children and really try to think about it, I cannot remember having dreamed at all! Is there any way to focus more energy on remembering my dreams, and to encourage more vivid dreams? Does it "mean something" that I either don't dream, or don't remember having had dreams?

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Dream Interpretation / Swimming with a bear
« on: June 10, 2014, 07:56:06 AM »
Please keep in mind that beyond the Wharf, I have spent no time in San Francisco and not a lot of time in California in general, so I'm positive that my dream geography is off. :)

I had a dream that I was in San Francisco on the south side of the bay. There was no city around me, just clumps of grass and dirt. It was nighttime and almost fully dark out. I was sitting comfortably and talking with someone, though I don't know who. When I try to remember, I think for some reason it was my husband, but maybe my oldest daughter (17). To the north, we could see the Golden Gate Bridge. It looked black because of the time of day. We decided for whatever reason that it was very important to swim to the north side of the bay to the city that was there on the other side of the Bridge.

We got in and were swimming along and talking. The water was dark so we couldn't see into it, and it was deep, but we weren't alarmed. Just was important to get to the other side and the city beyond. I was swimming on the side nearer to shore, and as we talked, I looked at my companion. I was slightly ahead of him/her so could see to the west side of him/her. I saw in the water about 4 feet away from him and swimming along with us a good sized black bear. I said, "Is that a bear?" He looked to his left and acknowledged that the bear was there. The bear looked at us as well. I remember thinking we should be alarmed, but we weren't. About that time, the bear took a breath and went under water. I either said or thought, Well, I hope he doesn't pull us under water by the legs and eat us. However, I really wasn't alarmed still and we continued to swim and talk.

After awhile, I realized that we hadn't seen the bear again and didn't know where he had gone.

That's about it! I can see a lot of meaning in each element separately, such as nighttime, calm/dark/deep ocean, a bear, etc, but I can't for the life of me tie it all together.

Anyone want to take a stab at it?

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