Dream Meanings

[sunshine100]

I had a dream I was at my old primary school surrounded by giant inflatables; random or what!! I will now be looking that up...

[Athiri]

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Originally Posted by Demons To Some

I had horrible reoccurring nightmares when I was small about great white sharks, in different situations but the end was always the same, I'd get eaten eventually. I think that was because I was shown the film 'Jaws' at an early age and it made me really scared of sharks. I'm not scared of them now, and actually quite like 'Jaws' :)

Same here! I saw it too young and kept having reoccurring dreams where a shark would come out of nowhere. One time I was just walking through the front room and a giant shark's head burst through the floor and ate me. Unlike you I'm still terrified of sharks and get very nervous swimming in the sea, even when I'm in England... But even though they scare the **** outta me I still appreciate their magnificence and wouldn't wish them any harm (unless one ever tries to eat me, then I will stab it in the eye ).

I read somewhere that everyone you dream about is actually a real person or a fictional character that you've seen somewhere before. Strange.

[BridgesAndBalloons]

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Originally Posted by Athiri

Same here! I saw it too young and kept having reoccurring dreams where a shark would come out of nowhere. One time I was just walking through the front room and a giant shark's head burst through the floor and ate me. Unlike you I'm still terrified of sharks and get very nervous swimming in the sea, even when I'm in England... But even though they scare the **** outta me I still appreciate their magnificence and wouldn't wish them any harm (unless one ever tries to eat me, then I will stab it in the eye ).

I think a lot of people are scared or unnerved by sharks, which is understandable if you've seen horror films when you were too young. I was shown 'The Shining' when I was young and that really scared me, I had nightmares for ages. A family member thought it was amusing to scare the younger family members with horror films. But now I love horror films so in the long term it didn't work, sadly for the short term it did

[overcome.]

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Originally Posted by Athiri

Definitely. Studies suggest that dreams are the brain's way of processing information, so they're bound to throw up problems and emotions that we might not consciously realise are troubling us, and like people have said interpreting a dream is quite personal because those problems etc. might be warped by our associations; say the smell of lavender reminds you of your grandmother's house and you dream of lavender or whatever.

Very much agree with this. In the simplest terms, I've found that I've often had dreams after thinking of something/somebody, even if it's subconsciously in the back of my mind. I don't know if I agree with dreaming about something in particular and it having meaning, I'm more inclined to believe that they're a collection of recent and past thoughts, most of the time. Where the rest comes from such as unexplained dreams, I do not know.