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INTERPRETING
DREAMS. Some real life dreams and how to go about understanding them. These
pages explore some complex and very personal usages of dream symbols.
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HYPNOPOMPIC and HYPNOGOGIC STATES
These dreams involve hallucinations either before (hypnogogic) or after a
dream (hypnopompic). These may not just involve hallucinations - the dreamer
may hear things, smell things, and even taste things. Such hallucinations
usually last for just seconds but may continue for longer. Click
here for a post hypnogogic dream experience I had
Such dreams may also involve people punching out. Anyone else in the bed may be hit. They might be having a dream which involves being trapped and they have to fight themselves out of the situations. The punching continues after the dream finishes.
Seeing things. Some people see small things such as small spaceships hovering. Others see mists which may change color. Others see complex geometric shapes. Objects may be lit up in unusual ways, such as a vision of god bathed in light.
Hearing noises. Some hypnopompic dreams involve hearing noises. This may be in the form of a bell, someone shouting a name, a song being sung or loud bangs. The most common type is hearing voices straight after the dream. I have found that such words can often seem very important in interpreting the dream. They can offer a key to understanding the dream. On the other hand the voices heard may just be nonsense and the words meaningless
Twitches and sensations. Such sensations are most common before you fall asleep (hypnogogic state ). You feel yourself drifting off to sleep then suddenly your body jolts(often quite vigorously). This is often referred to as sleep starts.
Other sensations may include a feeling of energy running through the body, a feeling of weightlessness, numbness or floating. Such imagery may be associated with the dream itself - such as a falling sensation when the dream has finished with you falling off a cliff.
The most common bodily sensation is sleep paralysis. This involves a feeling of total paralysis. The person cannot move or moves with great difficulty. This can often be linked to the dream content. Women feel as though they are being raped, men feel they are being held down. Emotionally the dreamer feels violated by the experience so some dream imagery symbolizing such feelings often emerge as a result.
Psychic activity. Many people have associated hypnopompic and hypnogogic
states with clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition and other psychic activity.
This may be the case with some. But I don't think the association is that
clear. My on thoughts are that dreams with hallucinations involve very strong
emotions. They show that the dream involves either powerful negative emotions
or strong spiritual inspiration.
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DREAM
STUDIES. This website has a large collection of dreams which have been thought
to be understood in great detail. They have been collected together into dream
studies. Each dream is linked to some real life event or feeling. To see the
dream studies CLICK HERE
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DREAM
DICTIONARY. The dreams within the dream bank have been used to build up a
DREAM DICTIONARY which is based upon real dreams. Each of the essays explores
the many and varied usages of dream symbols. There can be two or three meanings
to each symbol and each are explored within the context of real life emotions.
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Other articles on dream analysis
Lucid
dreams - control over your dreams
What
are dreams? - towards a scientific understanding
Left
brain / right brain - dreams and the mind
Heart transplants - The heart has a memory
Nightmares
- the confrontation of problems
Scientific
understanding The foundations of modern dream analysis
The
natural drugs of the brain Melatonin, Seratonin and dreams
Animals
in dreams Animals in dreams
Animal
symbolism Dorian Paul on animals in dreams
Music
in dreams Dorian Paul on music in dreams
Recognising
psychic dreams Not easy to spot but they happen
Disturbing
dreams Nightmares
"Shattered"
TV reality sleep deprivation show.
The
spiritual approach to dreams By Always Dreaming
Individuation
Working with a dreamer to understand their dream
Science
and premonitions Scientific understanding of premonitions
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ON-LINE BOOK
: Hundreds of real dreams
A BASIC INTRO to what dreams are about
BASIC
TECHNIQUES to interpret dreams
DREAM
DICTIONARY A to Z of symbols complete with essays on symbols in everyday real
uses
BASIC SYMBOLISM - DREAM
SYMBOLS : Basements
- Your boss
- Best friend
- Babies/pregnant
- Brothers
- Cafes
- Cars
- Castles
- Children
- Creative dreams
- Clothes
- Churches and cathedrals
- Deaths
- Demons,witches and goblins
- Dogs
- Drink and drugs
- Farms, gardens and plants
- Factories
- Fathers
- Faucets/taps/pipes
- Food
- Earthquakes and volcanos
- Foreign Countries
- Grandparents
- Guards
- Guns and knives
- Horses and animals
- Hauntings
- Hospitals
- Hotels + huge buildings
- Houses
- Locks
- Men(unknown)
- Military -
Money
- Mothers
- Monster
- Mountains
- Movies
- Music
- People
- Police
- Phone
- Politics
- Planes and flying
- Prison -
Rivers
- Rapists and intruders
- Railways
- Roads
- Schools
- Sea
- Sex
- Shops
- Sisters
- Skies in dreams
- Skyscrapers and tall buildings
- Snakes and spiders
- Space
- Sports
- Street
- Teeth
- Tidal waves
- Time
- Toilets in dreams
- Towns and streets
- Trees
- Water
- Weddings and engagements
- Windows
- Work
OTHER
SUBJECTS: external
causes of dreams : Music
in dreams :
Premonitions :
Telepathy : Specific
dreams :
Synonyms in dreams :
Children's
dreams and dreams about your child :
Recurring dreams CASE STUDIES :
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