Are dreams glimpses into a parallel universes?

*Parallel universe

Singular.

Maybe. Or a mixture of your subconscious with the collective unconscious.

That is not correct.

Dreams are just a way of cataloging the day's events.

Sorry to be a killjoy.

Yes. They are alternate realities. Unfortunately some people are fat in every iteration.

I wonder if "me" dreaming about me thinks I'm a nightmare. I would imagine.

I wonder if you died, of you then become "you" in that other universe?

I've often felt that my dreams were a commingling of my own memories and subconscious with those of others; some dreams were so specific and detailed, yet foreign to my own experiences and history - like a glimpse into another person's life. So, what r2 said.

I wonder why certain people pop up in dreams? Last night, I dreamt about a college roommate I haven't seen in 30 years. Why is he coming up now in my dreams?

Yeah, and wet dreams produce the "glue" that holds reality together and binds us all.

Philosophy isn't for everyone, R3.

Dreaming about me HAS to be a nightmare.

R11 hug.

"What was I doing with that string between those creepy whitish pegs in my mouth? That was so fucked up."

I had this dream last night. It was a parallel universe.

I am in Los Angeles with gay AA friends who are actually people I don’t know. One asks someone to be his sponsor, but the sponsor will only sponsor the guy if he texts him a link to an apartment he can rent, and then only if he takes the apartment. I am derided by all and sundry for thinking this is anything other than normal. This all takes place in a very crowded restaurant.

Very refreshing thread OP!

It gets my imagination going about those iterations of myself that are too dissimilar from me for the structures of my mind to process as dreams. But maybe parts of those minds would reach me indirectly through dream experiences of minds sufficiently similar to us both...

Sometimes unknown people in dreams seem so completely genuinely intricately real R13, it's uncanny, I wake up convinced that it couldn't have been possible for me to create them out of nothing.

Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future?

No, but porn is.

Good thread.

Woke up feeling grateful. You know something is up when losers you know are doing better than you in a dream. What does that mean?

How is making shit up "philosophy"?

Dreams are your brain processing information. Trying to figure stuff out while you sleep.

Use that info or consider it magical, but that's all it is.

I had a faux nightmare last week - it's Summer, so it was a repeat of one I've had in the past. I was being blackmailed over my internet history. This time, however, I tried to tell the extortionist to fuck himself. The police stopped me mid-sentence and asked me to wear a wire to help them catch the extortionist.

One thing I remember saying to the blackmailer: "I'm from Utah. We're known for gay internet history!"

R20, who get upset? Block this thread.

*why

I hope not. All I have are nightmares.

R21, Iowa is know for gay internet history.

I was being chased by a skunk in my dream last night, and then I farted and it went away, disgusted by the smell. I woke up and somebody had opened all the windows.

Dreams pass in time.

A question was asked, and I answered it, r22

No meatballs for you!

R3/20 is that douchebag who tells little kids Santa doesn't exist. He probably tells people that he doesn't even own a TV.

They aren't all "dreams". Some of what happens when we sleep are dreams; some of it is astral travel. You can learn to distinguish the two. The ones full of random material that you remember from the previous day are just dreams, just your mind processing your day. Astral travel is like a dream that is extraordinarily clear. You may meet with deceased relatives or other people; travel to other places or be given deep insights and information. Pay attention and you'll start to see the difference.

Also, some dreams are "messages from our subconscious". These may be vivid, and have strong emotional content. Studying these can help you understand yourself better. The symbols mean what they mean *to you*.

I take trazodone to sleep but occasionally it gives me vivid, memorable dreams - some recurrent.

DMT trips, maybe. Dreams, no.

DMT?

I once had a dream I was a closeted celebrity with a beard. It was then I knew I had spent too much time on DL.

dreams are slightly mysterious in nature but they likely seem a way of the mind to mentally clear off the desk while sleeping.

R29 why would I own a TV? I am already omnipotent (that's "potent" with an "omni"). I see all.

Oh, and Santa doesn't exist. If he did, he'd be in trouble with me for discriminating against poor kids.

[quote]some of it is astral travel.

No, that's just hippy dippy, new age bullshit

This is true.Do your research.

I did years ago. It's not proven at all. As I said, hippy dippy new age bs.

Dreams are places for loved ones who have passed on to come back and visit you. You also can travel and visit with them.

When I was 2 my mother went to take her GED 51st night. She had her boyfriend drop her off, and babysit me. I remember the inky blackness of night, and seeing her walk off into it, it felt like I would never see her again. My whole world was walking into that black night. I was too young to have understood even if they explained to me, so I cried until I threw up. He dealt with it like a champ, cleaned me & the car and stuck me with his mom. When I was 41 mom died, and I had a dream of that very night, but instead of just crying, I was also screaming over and over again out the window after her, "mommy come back, I'll be good I promise!"

*At not 51st.

Christ.

Dreams are the brain's way of storing and restoring memories. It's a critical part of the body's memory encoding process.

I don't disallow the possibility of clairvoyant or other inspirational experiences. I've observed too many "something's happened to Johnny" experiences that are plainly real. But we must assume that such experiences are our taking advantage of nascent or unfamiliar skills that are completely earthbound and "natural." If they occur in dream states or while sleeping it is because our usual conscious guards are down.

There is no crossing of barriers into "parallel universes." If such things exist they are a priori beyond our touch. If by this term one is trying to convey that not everything in existence is empirically demonstrable or recognizable, that's a different matter entirely.

The brain is local, but consciousness is non-local. The in the dream state we have access to nonlocal consciousness.

If they were, I wouldn't want to go there.

I'd just like to know in what fucking universe is everyone perfectly ok with me not wearing pants - having to go on a journey to find them.

Since I have Deja Vus from dreams and these Deja Vu were premonitions which unfolded in this universe, I don't think all dreams come from a parallel universe but I've thought of this as well...some dreams are simply too real to be just dreams

While you sleep, the brain uses the downtime to store memory. Dreams are the odd bits and pieces that pop up during the storage process.

Lately I've been dreaming about people I haven't seen in years. This has happened two nights in a row about two different people. Any dream analysts here?

I think Death is really one long dream.

R-41 I agree with you 100%. I think that is maybe one of the reasons we dream. I sometimes may have dream and someone very familiar to me would be there . I could never remember the face, I have come to believe, it was the Lord, maybe guiding me in the dream. Hope this doesn't sound too Bible thumpy, but I am a spiritual person.

I've had prophetic dreams a couple of times, when what I dreamt later happened.

R53 do tell.

The whole idea isn't science, it isn't philosophy, it is just made-up nonsense. R29 this isn't like telling kids there is no Santa. Presumably we are all adults here, and for adults the bar is a bit higher than whimsical fantasies and self-indulgent "theories" with no evidence to support them.

I dreamed I painted the town red in my Maidenform bra.

I sure hope not, my dreams that I remember are troubling and nearly always exasperating. Fortunately most of the time I don't remember my dreams.

Sometimes or past lives. Not lately but I’ve has dreams like that in the past.

One of the most terrifying dreams I’ve ever had that just at felt real was me standing around on some street and suddenly this crack whore who looked like she was dying of AIDD came over and just wanted to touch me. It reminded me of that scene in Jesus Christ superstar ehere all the keepers and shit are crowding him and he shrieks at them to not touch him except I’m definitely not a messiah. I could feel how in pain she was especially emotionally and she just wanted me to help but what could I do? Then I woke up.

AIDS not aidd

With infinite number of parallel universes? Sure, I don't see why not. We know so little about this universe, nobody can be sure that something like that is impossible. Only possible answer is "we don't know"

No one knows why we dream, but scientists have speculated that our consciousness locks us into this universe but we lose consciousness when we sleep and our spirit bodies are free to roam other planes of existence.

I believe my dreams are an amalgamation of personal experiences (current/past/future), coupled with fear, loss, heartbreak, and hope: a Pandora's Box of 'What if's?"

At varying times throughout my life, I have dreamt of a past love, the love of my life, who left me. He appears in my dreams, in varying scenarios, yet when I attempt to speak to him, he doesn't hear me; or when I attempt to touch him, I cannot touch him; yet he still returns to me in my dreams: reliving hope, loss, and heartbreak from past experiences.

A few years ago I had 2 dreams that i'll never forget:

I had the first dream on New Year's Eve. In the dream, my mean girl from high school sent me several text messages telling me that she was better than me and that she had won and that she finally beat me. I woke up from the dream thinking, "What the hell?" I hadn't thought of the mean girl in years, the dream felt so realistic, I didn't understand what it meant.

I told a friend about the dream, and he decided to look up the mean girl on facebook (I don't have a FB account) and he discovered that the mean girl had gotten engaged on New Year's eve, the same night as my dream. Okay, no big deal, it's just a coincidence. I forgot about it.

Then, a few months later, I had another dream about the mean girl. In this dream, she was having a bridal shower at a church we both used to attend. This dream was very vivid, in the dream, mean girl's mother shows up to the bridal shower extremely drunk and the mean girl yells at her, "I didnt invite you! Get out of here! Go to rehab!"

I asked my friend to check out mean girl's FB profile again, and she had a bridal shower at that same church the day after my dream. Her mother was in none of the photos from the bridal shower.

Fascinating lecture about dreams:

No, dreams are your brain mulling over what happened the day before, etc.

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r61 has it right, we just dont know. Dreams are fascinating and mysterious, as is our entire life and existence. Anyone that thinks they can definitively state exactly what dreams are, that there are no parallel universes, that we are alone in the universe, etc, is ignorant. We know so little compared to what we do know, yet there are so many know it alls around who actually think theyve got it all figured out.

R29, R3/20 has a TV and is watching every violent show that is on.

My mother is 99 yrs old. 25 yrs ago Macular degeneration started chipping away at her eyesight. She still has limited use of her peripheral vision. She was never an intuitive or imaginative kind of thinker. She rarely dreamed and never made reference to them in conversation. I have been a lucid dreamer all of my life. In the last few years, my mother has had very vivid dreams. The dreams were not scary in themselves but they were very disconcerting to her. I came to realize that in dreams she had her full vision. Today, whenever she is ready to nap or go to bed she will say" I want to go have a look around."

Very interesting, R70.

I don't know sometimes I dream I am walking and talking with my deceased aunt and she stops abruptly to tell me she has lost her gold bracelet, for some reason I look behind me and I see it on the ground resting on top of a pair of brown shoes. I tell her look, it's right there but then she is gone. Wtf does this dream mean should I look for that bracelet and brown shoes?

My best friend and soulmate passed away 6 months ago. I want to dream about him, but he never shows up in my dreams. Is he ignoring me?

I haven't had dreams that I thought I might about someone who passed away, too, R73.

R73 and R74, I lost my longtime partner to cancer several years ago. I expected "visits" from him in my dreams, but for months it didn't happen. Eventually I started having a recurring dream about him. The details always vary, but the underlying theme remains the same. He has someone "returned" to me and is alive once more. In the dream, I don't really understand how it could have happened, but I don't bother questioning it. There is an underlying sadness, though, because even though he'd back, I know it's only temporary, and that he will have to leave again. I don't know how long we have, but in the dream I try to make the most of every minute we're back together.

^^ . . . even though he's back, not even though he'd back. ^^

Interesting, R75. Some dreams really make you wonder.

If you’ve never seen this, have fun. If you have, cry laughing all over again.

I think dreams can mean many things. They can be glimpses into different realities or they can be teasers at what may happen soon.

These past few weeks I've been dreaming about my ex on and off. I'm wondering if he's going to contact me soon.

I had a dream about running into an ex who I hadn't seen in 20 years - and the encounter was uncomfortable and uneasy.

The next day, I ran into my ex who I had not seen in 20 years and the encounter was uncomfortable and uneasy.

R80 okay that is spooky.

My ex still hasn't texted me yet despite doing so in a dream a few weeks ago. :/

Dreams are unpredictable, that is part of the spookiness.

I just saw a meme where the guy says that as much as he uses his smartphone during the day he never sees it in his dreams, and I thought wow I dont think I do either? Do you guys?

I have never dreamt of my iphone, but I have dreamt of being on my laptop. I have dreamt of scrolling DL on my laptop!

R83 good point, never have. I dream of being at work a lot, but I never dream about DL or about using computers or the internet generally, wonder why that is?

R70 and r75 very poignant.

Random thought - can macular degeneration be contributed to by the blue light from computers and smartphones? If so, may my vision RIP.

SPOILER ALERT

The dreams are actual reality...it's our day-to-day lives that are the "dreams"

Does anyone sometimes dream about someone they used to know that they were not particularly close to?