Dream A Little Dream

I used to have very unsettling re-occurring dreams. I'm glad that they never came true. It seems that I would have these dreams when I was unsettled in general, or worried about something. The dreams never helped me solve anything and, in fact, caused me to be even more anxious becuase I was having the "nighmare" again. Not sure what dreams mean, or if they are useful in one's wakefulness. Regardless, I think dreams are very individual in terms of where they come from.

After my husband lost his job I started having dreams repeatedly about being in a fancy hotel, not in a hotel room, but just in the main foyer. It always ended with me calling home to my husband on my cell phone. It was strange. Then I read something on the internet and it mentioned dreaming about hotels, then it said if it was an upscale hotel it meant business or money problems. Makes sense about the money problems since my hubby had lost his job. Then it said if you were alone and not with a spouse it meant your relationship was good. And that part is true as we have been happily together since high school and married for 31 years. After my hubby got on disability and we had money coming in, bingo, the hotel dreams totally disappeared! I do take stock in dreams overall.

Are you kidding? My sister has experienced airplane disasters in her sleep and awakened to turn on the news and find that at that exact time a real plane crash had occurred exactly the way she dreamed it! I've dreamt things that have come true so many times I cannot count. One has to learn to discern which are prophetic dreams and which are simple 'brain static'. I have plenty of those too. Most of the time you can figure out which is which by just thinking about conversations, television/radio/video programming you've watched, situations you're concerned about as opposed to something you "have a bad feeling about." I think science is too quick to pass off real prophetic dreams that have saved people's lives literally. No matter how advanced scientific research may be, they still cannot control the supernatural.

I used to have this dream and i had for 1 whole year. It was so disturbing. God knows what these dreams mean. Thank God i dont have this dream anymore

I often have dreams that seem to foretell the future. Not in a really obvious way but I will dream of being in a certain place at a certain time and hearing someone say a certain thing and then it happens. Or I will have a dream that is a continuation of different dreams that I had years before. I once had a dream that my husband was cheating on me with my friend and I woke up furious with him. The notion of him dallying with my friend was laughable at best but that didn't stop the immediate visceral reaction. Poor guy. Lol..

I think some of my dreams came out to be true or atleast they gave me a clue to something which happened later on.So who knows.?Sometime they are just a state of our mind or outcome of something which is hidden in our thoughts.

I agree with the study and think that people do sometimes make changes in their day to day lives based on dreams. Although I rarely remember dreams. I do know that my husband has vivid dreams quite often. Usually his dreams are too bizarre to be mistaken for realistic and are often relating to his involvement in historical events. :)

I do think dreams help us grow. I know that being older now, that the dreams I have seem to be more crazy. I remember one dream that I had when my son was about 10 years old. The dream showed me, my son, and our three dogs under a tree. My husband was not in it. When my husband asked for a divorce several months later, then I knew what that dream meant. I have had several dreams where things have come true. I really hate the dreams I have all the time when I am looking for a place to go to the bathroom. The bathrooms in my dreams are disgusting and dirty. Some of the tolits are falling in. I can't even sit on one either. Then I always wake up and have to go to the bathroom really bad in the middle of the night. My dream is telling me to wake up, and let me tell you, I am grateful for that. I have had dreams also of my second husband leaving me, but know this is all my thinking, and would never happen.

Oh do I hate when I wake up with a head ache. Also the dreams that you wake up and then you fall back to sleep in the same dream.

Researchers used one example of this by saying, ?Dreams of spousal infidelity may lead to suspicious accusation, alienating one's spouse and potentially provoking actual infidelity.? I can agree with this! I've been happily married for 25-years but had a very vivid dream about my husband having an affair. I couldn't shake the feeling of it for a couple of days. Really hoping I don't have that one again! Great info! Thanks, Connie

I do think that dreams effect our behavior. If they seem real it does effect your day. I have had very realistic type dreams. Also have had dreams of certain places and things and find that years later I'll be somewhere and it occurs to me that I've seen this place or thing in my dreams. Anyone else have this experience?

I have always heard that dreams do have related meaning to ones' life but I have never looked into it myself. Although I think that it would be very interesting. I have had dreams that have left me feeling very uneasy when I have been struggling with a decision in my life. Maybe that's my subconscious letting me know it's not the right thing to do.

I definatly think that we are affected by dreams. However, I beleive that dreams are a way of our brain to work out subconscious problems and stuff. The problems might ones that we are aware of and the symbols might not be clear (l have a dream dictionary that I love!). Writing down dreams as soon as I can rember them and then refering to my dictionary has helped me figure out some of my dreams meanings...

I hate to admit it, but yes dreams have affected my daily life. I have been a little upset with a friend and my husband after having a dream that they were having an affair. Ok, it was just a dream, but it bothered me for days. I kept going over it in my mind, and thinking if there were clues that I had seen and they were only coming up to the surface in my resting mind. It took me a while to get back to normal. And this was years ago, and no, they never did have an affair, it was just a bad dream, so I was a little crazed to alienate a friend for a few weeks over it, and risk losing her, over it. She did have a secret boyfriend though, so maybe that was it? Who knows? She didn't want us to know because we always check them out and make a big deal out of it, and she didn't know if this would last or not. But it did, and they are now married.