Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Dreams are an offshoot of the conscious mind. Well, usually, it seems that way. After one keeps a dream journal for a couple of months, it’s obvious. Day-to-day life inspires dreams. Some dreams are replays of your daily life. Others are full of symbolism, reflecting the issues you’re contending with. Sometimes your subconscious is urging…
—Oneiromancy—the idea you can foretell the future in dreams—doesn’t work, and you shouldn’t ever trust it. Foretelling the future through dreams isn’t accurate enough. It will lead you down the wrong road and have you making foolish decisions. Doubt this? Look at the record for prophets foretelling the end of the world. Lots of predicting…
They say the easiest way to tell an alligator from a crocodile is to look at the teeth. An alligator will have the top teeth visible when their mouths are closed, and a crocodile will have the bottom teeth visible. Now was it an alligator or crocodile in your dream? If you’re still not…
Interpret the dream, and you’ll understand if it has a spiritual meaning. Put away the dream dictionaries, close the browser window with the dream interpretation website, and forget about sending that e-mail to a psychic to help you get at the meaning of that weird dream. None of those methods work well, even if the…
There are dreams, and then there are DREAMS!! Some dreams are dim and poorly remembered; others are very vivid. When a dream is vivid, it feels like it’s happening in real-time. While events in the dream aren’t always realistic, vividness makes them feel very real. When they feel real, it can be unsettling. Where do…
Many different kinds of restaurants serve fast food: burger places, pizza places, chicken sandwich places and so on. All of them mean other things to different people. For some, a fast-food restaurant is their favorite place for a quick meal. For others, it’s a lively place to get together with their friends or family. Then…
Some people would want to resist learning what a dream about their ex might mean. They’d be afraid it would mean they subconsciously wanted to get back together with them. If that’s the case, there’s no way. I’ve been through all that before, and I’m not looking back. If that’s the only partner available,…
The presence of spiders in a dream often alludes to lying in wait and trapping. Some spiders also fill their prey full of poison to kill and eat them. The presence of a spider in a dream can also imply a virtual sickness or poisoning. The meaning depends on the viewpoint of the dreamer. Are…
One morning Gregor Samsa woke up unable to get up. He was stuck on his back and couldn’t leave the bed. He had, inexplicably, been transformed into a giant cockroach. So begins the events in “The Metamorphosis,” a novella by Franz Kafka. While dreams didn’t inspire the novella, the “horrible vermin” is representative of just…
What the bear in your dream represents depends on the way you feel about the bear and how it’s presented in the dream. That is, of course, true for most objects in dreams. Yet themes have emerged about bears in cultures around the world. Considering these can help you understand what the bear might symbolize…