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Do Dreams Have a Genuine Meaning In Real Life?

It is possible to take lessons from dreams in real life

By Burak BayramPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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I believe that it is possible to take lessons or deduce from dreams. In my opinion, our subconscious mind creates dreams with the goal of eliciting emotions from any image that would work. To express this sentence, you can feel trapped sometimes in life, and perhaps you may be willing to experience something new but it can make you feel afraid for various reasons. Then, your subconscious would look at those various fears and concoct one that most aligns with the fear you would try to block. So, stereotypically maybe the room is closing in on you; you are falling from too high; you are running down on an endless corridor or whatever will get the feeling across.

That is why I look at my dreams as emotional movies where I must feel the feeling. The subconscious has few ways of telling us what to look at, what we are trying to ignore, in both the negative and positive.

Furthermore, dreams can provide symbolic representations of our waking reality that can explain and contextualize it, and they can even point to the possibility of yet unrealized experiences that the conscious mind may not have previously considered possible.

From a different perspective of view, in the religious world, they believe that dreams are a pathway to the spiritual. Abrahamic religions believe that God reveals things to people through dreams, these things include knowing the future and divine instructions.

According to my research, the importance of dreams with scientific explanations has been discussed and examined in many ways. It is obvious that scientifically the dream is a result of happenings in the subconscious vice versa. Although the conclusions drawn in general do not indicate a definitive conclusion, of course, the conclusion is almost a common inference which is ‘if dreams did not make sense, they would have disappeared in the evolutionary process’.

How Can You Learn from Your Dreams?

Is there any merit in a dream?

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The content of dreams is commonly seen and thought of like a jumble of gibberish and what you were thinking about during the day, flashbacks, and random thoughts.

Therefore, we are not usually attempted to interpret the jumbled mess of dreams, even if they contain relevant information. On the other hand, dreams can be a component of meaningful self-improvement.

I really like this quote of Sigmund Freud is that

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”

According to MLC (Meaningful Life Centre), dreams provide you with a look into a world that exists outside of your conscious awareness. The amorphous nature of the subconscious, which acts fundamentally different from the structured conscious mind, is reflected in the fact that dreams rarely make sense. Although accessing the subconscious through dreams can be confusing, it does open you up to a higher, transcendent state of consciousness that there is more to existence than meets the eye.

Dreams have seen a realm beyond consciousness and I think we are meant to deduce from our dreams in order to make a progress because dreams provide a different perspective of view or the aspect that cannot be even imagined. To comprehend it, a dream illustrates that you may get over your prejudices, biases, as well as your typical self-perceptions.

A dream expands your creativity, imagination and teaches you to never give up on your greatest desires. As a result, consider your inner voice and what it might teach you about yourself when you wake up from a dream. Then use that knowledge to live a life that has meaning and purpose.

Sigmund Freud believes that

“There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and … if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.”

Inspired by this quote, I will give an exercise that can lead you to interact with your dreams. I am writing this exercise based on my internet research and a few elders in my family who do it.

Before you go to sleep at night, focus and think about what you want to dream about, this will allow you to control your subconscious by processing in it. You can ask yourself a question about the topic you are thinking about. Then, try to remember the dream you saw when you wake up and the answer you get might be hidden in it, and don’t expect a concrete answer, dreams don’t work that way. For example, if your question is ‘will I be successful at my current job in future?’ and if you see a fertile field full of roses in your dream, it may mean an answer of ‘yes’ to your question, but if it is a barren and unproductive field, the answer will be the opposite. However, remember that you may need to concentrate too much on the dream, so don’t give up trying when it doesn’t.

Summary

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To sum up, according to many opinions, experiences, and research, dreams are believed to teach you about a reality beyond the conscious. Plus the interpretation is considered as an important way to understand the actual meaning beyond the dreams in life. They are a tool for revealing the secret meaning or answers that you are actually looking for in real life.

As a result, I agree with the many thoughts and believe that life lessons can be learned via dreams.

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

|B.B.

This story was originally published on Medium.

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About the Creator

Burak Bayram

I write about every aspect of life.

View my stories on Medium via https://writings-of-bb.medium.com

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