Many often assume that a dream is a jumble of thoughts placed into one ball of nothing. But do dreams mean something? Do they have a purpose in the mind of a man, woman, or child? Or are they just one’s imagination?Not only do dreams reveal their own hidden truths, but the Old Testament and recent studies have shown that there is more to the unconscious mind than what is inferred.
A dream is much more than an image from the mind. “When an individual has fallen short of his own standards or failed to be true to himself , he may suffer a recriminating dream that pulls him up short. This type of dream exposes the dark or negative aspects of the self which Jung calls ‘the realization of the shadow’.” When a man seeks truth, he turns to his friends …show more content…
For example, “Joseph, the eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, had the ability not only to remember and interpret his own dreams, but to interpret those of others.” When joseph was thrown in jail, he interpreted the precognitive dreams of a fellow prisoner. The prisoner was the butler of the Pharaoh. Joseph told him that the butler’s dream stated that he will live and resume work in three days with the Pharaoh. “In the Bible there are constant references to communication between man and God, between man and the angels, and between man and his higher self through the medium of dreams.” The first record of precognitive dreaming is in the Old Testament. A precognitive dream is a dream that foretells the future. What is truth without the future? Dreams can explain what there is to know behind each question, statement, and fact. According to Edgar Cayce, an American mystic, dreaming is part of seeking …show more content…
“The nature of dream activity has been characterized by many clinical and laboratory studies. These studies show that dreams are more perceptual than conceptual: Things are seen and heard rather than subjected to thought.(Encyclopedia)” The main idea is most dreams are in the form of stories and partially by memory. Visual experience is almost always present while auditory experience is only present half the time. “Seventy-six college students(47 women, 29 men; ages 19-24, modal age=21) were asked to incubate dreams addressing problems as a homework assignment in a class on dreams. They are instructed to to select a problem of personal relevance with recognizable solution(s). It could be of a personal, general objective, or academic nature.(Deirdre)” For one week, subjects followed the procedure and noted that the students either dreamt of the answer to the problem or of themselves solving the problem and only finding pieces to the answer. “Key figures in waking life are our dream characters and familiar surroundings become the vista for the dream story to play out. Nonetheless, important information is being portrayed in the dream story, and sometimes it’s a glimpse at the future.(Collective Evolution)” Dreams do have meaning. They clarify the mind by answering difficult everyday questions that people can not figure out. A dream is not just a piece of memory, but also a story that unfolds each
A dream is much more than an image from the mind. “When an individual has fallen short of his own standards or failed to be true to himself , he may suffer a recriminating dream that pulls him up short. This type of dream exposes the dark or negative aspects of the self which Jung calls ‘the realization of the shadow’.” When a man seeks truth, he turns to his friends …show more content…
For example, “Joseph, the eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, had the ability not only to remember and interpret his own dreams, but to interpret those of others.” When joseph was thrown in jail, he interpreted the precognitive dreams of a fellow prisoner. The prisoner was the butler of the Pharaoh. Joseph told him that the butler’s dream stated that he will live and resume work in three days with the Pharaoh. “In the Bible there are constant references to communication between man and God, between man and the angels, and between man and his higher self through the medium of dreams.” The first record of precognitive dreaming is in the Old Testament. A precognitive dream is a dream that foretells the future. What is truth without the future? Dreams can explain what there is to know behind each question, statement, and fact. According to Edgar Cayce, an American mystic, dreaming is part of seeking …show more content…
“The nature of dream activity has been characterized by many clinical and laboratory studies. These studies show that dreams are more perceptual than conceptual: Things are seen and heard rather than subjected to thought.(Encyclopedia)” The main idea is most dreams are in the form of stories and partially by memory. Visual experience is almost always present while auditory experience is only present half the time. “Seventy-six college students(47 women, 29 men; ages 19-24, modal age=21) were asked to incubate dreams addressing problems as a homework assignment in a class on dreams. They are instructed to to select a problem of personal relevance with recognizable solution(s). It could be of a personal, general objective, or academic nature.(Deirdre)” For one week, subjects followed the procedure and noted that the students either dreamt of the answer to the problem or of themselves solving the problem and only finding pieces to the answer. “Key figures in waking life are our dream characters and familiar surroundings become the vista for the dream story to play out. Nonetheless, important information is being portrayed in the dream story, and sometimes it’s a glimpse at the future.(Collective Evolution)” Dreams do have meaning. They clarify the mind by answering difficult everyday questions that people can not figure out. A dream is not just a piece of memory, but also a story that unfolds each