dreams

camy_chick
camy_chick Posts: 277 Member
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I'm wondering - what are your thoughts on this -

When you have a VIVID dream of someone who has past on, like you talk to them, they interact with you, and you remember them at their best - do you think it is them trying to communicate with you in your dreams?

I had a dream a few nights back, VERY vivid, we were at my step-grans funeral, and we didn't get to say good-bye - she was suffering from BAD Alzheimer. But in the dream, she looked the best I ever remembered her, we were talking - and saying good-bye. I love the dream because I feel better about her death. Like we did actually say good-bye. And she was basically telling everyone she was ok with her "dying"....SO like I was asking, do you think dreams are a way for the deceased to communicate with us? Or just a dream?

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  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    I think dreams are our brain's way of working things out. I.e - you might not have actually "spoken" with her, but your mind gave you a scenario in which you could so you could feel better.

    That's one of the nice things our brains do for us.
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  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
    I often have very vivid dreams about my dad, who passed away a few years ago. Sometimes, they seem so real that I actually wake up thinking he's alive. I usually just chalk it up to me going through a rough time and wishing he was still here to talk to. But, it's kind of nice thinking that it could be something more :)
  • quixoteQ
    quixoteQ Posts: 484
    1. Unconscious, you expect an image of the world around you to exist even with your eyes and other sensors at rest. An image comes to your sleeping mind's eye. The contents of the image are formed from the collection of symbols your subconscious began organizing, when, as a child, you first distinguished a "self" as separate from the world around you.

    2. A person you identify as the subject of the image (usually you) reacts to the content of the image, and the image changes in accordance with what you expect to happen, moving in accordance with forces that you expect to be operating, forces untempered by any objective causation.

    So to answer your question: no.

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