Dreams

[xtremegeek]

INTJs would you mind sharing your comments about your dream world?
1. Do you usually remember your dreams?
2. Do you think dreams have knowledge from which we can draw personal growth or enlightenment?
3. Do you dream in color?
4. Any other random comments about dreams.

Thanks

[maai]

We must think in sync. I just put up a poll asking about reality of dreams.

I've got the whole works (all 5 senses in living technicolor) in dreams, including flying.
Has its good points and bad.

[xtremegeek]

We must think in sync. I just put up a poll asking about reality of dreams.

I've got the whole works (all 5 senses in living technicolor) in dreams, including flying.
Has its good points and bad.

Yes, we must be in sync today. My bad for not noticing your post before I created this. I have learned that in the INJT world, redundancy is a very bad thing.

Sometimes, I wish I could sleep a whole night without dreaming. I always wake up with 'stuff' on my mind, stemming from my dreams. I wish my mind could get a rest.

[thegnat]

We must think in sync. I just put up a poll asking about reality of dreams.

I've got the whole works (all 5 senses in living technicolor) in dreams, including flying.
Has its good points and bad.

Yes, we must be in sync today. My bad for not noticing your post before I created this. I have learned that in the INJT world, redundancy is a very bad thing.

Sometimes, I wish I could sleep a whole night without dreaming. I always wake up with 'stuff' on my mind, stemming from my dreams. I wish my mind could get a rest.

yeah I have dreams in full color, flying, downright weird, sad, realistic. I don't believe in the accuracy of dreams being at all like reality. Unless you dream your alarm's going off and you think it's a dream and it's reality....

I usually don't dream, but if I do I remember them.

I prefer not to dream. For the pure strangeness of mine.

Sleep is about the only time my mind gets a rest. Sometimes.

[cielo market]

How 'bout we use this thread to talk about specific dreams? I'll get the ball rolling *:P

Me, my younger sister, and possibly my younger brother (I can't remember) were on the subway (weird because there is no subway system where I live), on our way to school (which is also weird because they still attend high school, I'm in college). I can't recall if they got off early or if I missed my stop, but they got off before me. I was alone on the subway, and I noticed that my sister forgot her backpack. I specifically remember the Cosmo (from Fairly Odd Parents) patch she has on it (in real life). I finally decide to get off the train, and stuff her backpack into mine. I go up the stairs from the underground station, and see that I'm downtown somewhere. There's a fancy restaurant next to me, so I go in. There, I am told that I am in Japan. *:suspicious: I suppose I was speaking Japanese because there was no communication barrier between me and the locals. I meet a nice guy who lets me stay at his house. I remember he was slim and tall and always wore graphic tees. He introduces me to his mother (whom he lives with) and takes me around the city, apparently impressing his buddies with his new foreign friend. Eventually, I decide to go home. I get back on the subway and make sure to get off the right stop (I didn't want to end up overseas again, of course ;) ) I didn't play out everyday in my dream, but I got the feeling like I was in Japan for about a month, but when I came back my siblings acted as if I had been only missing an hour... I give my sister her backpack and the story's over...


I don't know what to take from this dream.. Stay off the subway? I'm living another life in a parallel universe?

[xtremegeek]

Maybe this will help you interpret your dream:

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I'm still trying to decide if dreams are an important part of our growth or not. Are dreams worth paying attention to and are we truly able to learn from them...

[cielo market]

Maybe this will help you interpret your dream:

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I'm still trying to decide if dreams are an important part of our growth or not. *Are dreams worth paying attention to and are we truly able to learn from them...

I think they're important (sometimes). It's fun to think that my brain is trying to talk to me.

To see people you know in your dream, signifies qualities and feelings of those people that you desire for yourself.

If my siblings were able to get off the subway before me, maybe I wish I were more impulsive like them?

To see people you don't know in your dream, denotes hidden aspects of yourself that you need to confront.
To see a foreigner in your dream, represents an aspect of yourself that is unfamiliar or strange to you. You may be neglecting or ignoring some important feelings or talents.

hmn.. so this Japanese guy represents something (strange?) I need to confront in my life... I'll have to get back to that.

To dream that you are in the subway, denotes that you are reaching your goal via unconscious methods. You may be exploring hidden aspects of yourself.
sounds like me.

To hear or speak a foreign language in your dream, indicates a message from your unconscious that you do not yet understand.
a bit vague :(

To dream that you are in a restaurant, suggests that you are feeling overwhelmed by decisions/choices that you need to make in your life. Alternatively, it indicates that you are seeking for emotional nourishment outside of your social support system.

interesting



Good stuff to think about *:)

[Ijz]

1. Do you usually remember your dreams?

Very rarely and if I do it usually dissipates after 5 mins. I sometimes remember that I had a vivid dream but can't remember what it was about. It then feels as if its at the tip of my tongue but still I can't remember. Also, when I wake up naturally I rarely remember dreams, but when I'm woken by my alarm-clock there seems to be a bigger chance of remembering.

2. Do you think dreams have knowledge from which we can draw personal growth or enlightenment?

I think that dreams are just a way of processing new information and giving it a proper place in your mind. And when you remember it you just got a sneak peek at that process. It therefore can give you some clues of whats bothering you.

3. Do you dream in color?

No idea (is that a no?)

4. Any other random comments about dreams.

Like I said I think its just a way of how your brain deals with new information. During the day a lot of information comes at you. Some of it you will be consciously aware of, most of it you wont. While you sleep your brain gets the chance to clean up, and in the morning you therefore get a clean mind. It has happened to me so many times that I can't solve a certain problem and the next morning it all made sense and I immediately found the solution.


Don't take anything I wrote for granted, they are just my personal theories :)

[Fiordispina]

When I was younger I almost always rememered my dreams - now not so much; although some loss of dream memory may due to lack of sleep. When I recall dreams they are quite vivid; always dream in color.

Love flying dreams; however they are quite rare.

I tend to dream regarding worries / fears / things I wish would happen.

During my childhood and early twenties I would commonly have dreams that later happened....word for word! Nothing significant; mundane conversations / occurrences. (As did my mother, aunt, and grandmother.)

[xtremegeek]

When I was in high school, I began having a dream about my father. He was dying and I tried to scream for help, but I had no voice. I continued to have the exact same dream several times a year throughout my college years. The day before I graduated from college, my father was diagnosed with cancer. When he died, I was standing over him feeling helpless because nothing the doctors tried had worked. I realized then that my dream was trying to tell me or prepare me for such a life-altering event.

[HarleyQuinn]

1. Do you usually remember your dreams?
It depends on how strong the dreams are. I can think of two immediately off the top of my head (ignoring the recurring one) but most of them are nightmares. There've been several where I've had to mentally force myself awake because I wasn't enjoying them :( e.g. mentally screaming "Wake UP!" and I'll physically open my eyes because I'm utterly terrified in my head.
2. Do you think dreams have knowledge from which we can draw personal growth or enlightenment?
Not really, but than again I don't believe in reading dreams either since mine are too eclectic and rarely make sense to me.
3. Do you dream in color?
Funny you ask. When I close my eyes, I get flashes of random colors like yellow/blue/red, etc. Anyway, if I'm sleeping I see everything in color and if somebody makes a loud noise outside in the hall while I'm asleep, literally there's that static snow that appears on a TV screen that flashes into my head and I have to "restart" my dream.
4. Any other random comments about dreams.
My only recurring dream involves a "school" situated as the Mall of America in Minnesota with two escalators right in front of the front doors leading up to the second landing. I go up to the second landing when two werewolves come in (all An American Werewolf in London style) so I quickly duck into the nearest bathroom that instinct tells me is the girls for whatever reason. Underneath the sink are cabinets and I manage to scrunch my body in. Sometimes a girl will come in and hide with me, sometimes not. The werewolf enters the bathroom and begins to sniff around and that's when I wake up 'cause I'm mentally freaked at that stage.

[PhoenixRising]

I think I remember some of my dreams, but not all- usually I think we only remember our dreams when we awake while either in them or in close proximity to their end.
As to the personal growth and enlightenment part I think that you can gain some enlightenment from them, but not always. I look at it as when I am dreaming I am in a lower state of consciousness, but one that has access to the parts of the mind that are unmapped by the conscious. That being said one can gain some insights into subprocesses that you can't normally see, of course that poses a whole new problem with interpretation.
Color, most definitely, also unusually strong feelings to the point of being surreal.
LOL Asking INTJ's for other thougths is a dangerous thing!
I'm going to go a little off track here, but I do feel that when we are in a dream state we do have access to abilities that normally we do not that go well beyond conscious reality and the physical limits of the body we inhabit. I have personally while in a dream state left my body and upon waking up from it found that people were doing EXACTLY as I had just seen, in exactly the places I experienced while asleep, and I have also on several occasions had very strange dreams where I did not feel like myself and remembered them only to find that monthes later the dream was a reality (ie time traveled to a future point). VERY freaky indeed! And to answer the question before it gets asked, no I did not change anything... I was too much in awe over knowing what people were going to say, or who was going to enter the room, and they were only very brief peroids perhpaps a minute or two. *That's not to say that I immediately consult a dream dictionary or go see a Psychic when I get a wierd dream, but I do believe that we as humans only scratch the surface of what our minds or spirits are capable of, and that sometimes we can get a glimpse of some of the capabilities we've yet to be able to use through that window into the subconscious we call dreams. *Milan

[fripping]

my intj is fairly obsessed with her dreams and always seems to remember them. she holds a grudge against spending so much time being unproductive (asleep) and seems intent on getting something beneficial out of it. she's a practiced hand at interpreting her dreams and is so familiar with them that she treats them in a very casual way where i treat them more as a profound mystery because i find them so inaccessible. but sometimes they happen to have profound emotional influence on her in which case they can color the mood of her entire day.