Dreams are experiences from the day you go to sleep. In other words, dreams are made by your subconscious mind.
To explain to those who doesnt know what the subconscious mind is; We have “two minds” one conscious, the one that you think with RIGHT now, its the part where you could hear your own voice talk, and we have the subconscious mind, your subconscious mind takes in all information that you are exposed for, all the small things… every little detail, your subconscious mind know what happend when you where 9 years and 8 days old, it knows everything!
So when you dream your normal dream, your subconscious mind takes information from that previous day and makes a little “story”, it doesnt need to mean anything at all, if you start to think about it you will see that there always are connections between your dreams and what happend that day.
The tool Lucid dreaming is an awesome tool, you could find lost memories, you could recall the day when you first saw a spider. You recall all of your dreams you ever had, hard or not, your whole life is recorded in your subconscious mid.
Hope this was little helping for those who didnt know this. Im open to all questions:)
see, I believe that that’s normally what it means too, only there is more.
Nightmares are one exception. They’re caused by you SC trying to work out problems you have in life, and can come from anywhere in life. If you had a rough childhood, and you’re 40, you may still have nightmares dealing with your past.
There are also dreams that do not correlate to waking life, but are more like stress relievers. These dreams are often sexual, or just plain random. I’ve tried time and time again to explain these dreams in relation to the previous day, but in the end there is nothing. Though these do not happen nearly as often as the recapping dreams you spoke of, they are nevertheless prevalent in the dream world.
I agree with you, but also firmly believe that there are a few more types of dreams that deserve mentioning.
Yeah there is more, but i did a short summenary:) thats why i said i was open for questions:D
Lets take that premise…
Lets also revise that one. You don’t actually have two minds. You only have one. It’s split according to two different, famous models of psychology (conscious/subconscious and ego/superego/id) just so you can have a clue of what’s going on, but in real case studies you often see there’s no such a thing as a clear line splitting things apart.
This is why, for instance, dream incubation works so well—you consciously make us of a primarly subconscious function.
Now, given the premises that we have a subconscious, that is, a reasonable part of our mind that is unknown to us, this makes absolutely no sense. Why would a reasonable thing, a mind, just dump random information?
One could say it at least selects what’s more important and what’s more impactant—not only from that day, but from a certain period of time. I also wouldn’t think it only fetches visual memories—what about abstract memories and congnition? Social rules, cultural treats etc?
Even though the process could be a bit random, wouldn’t a subconscious mind be making enough relations in its dreams for them to actually to convey reasonable meaning?
For example, should you have had a serious fear brought up again today. You go to bed, and this memory is fresh and powerful. Lets assume the mind starts there. Cognitive science tells me the first thing your mind will do is make relations—look for memories that have to do with that fear. Those memories can be visual, olfative, auditive, tactual, abstract.
Your fear of being fired relates to your fear of running out of money which relates to your fear of not giving your children a decent life and BAM! you dream your children were kidnapped. I don’t see how could this be random at all… I don’t think it’s just your mind “telling a story”—dreams have a powerful social and persoal sense aggregated to them, they make sense.
In my humble opinion, they must always mean something, only not always can we understand what they mean. But I don’t think it’s as simple as making relations to what I did yesterday…
As you see i used “” when i adressed to conscious- and subconscious mind. I know what you are talking about here…
Our subconscious has no “critical sensor” witch means that it can sense fantacy from real life. I would agree that dreams often are based on little fears, but not always, i had dreams that where mind shocking. There are also many different teories on why we dream. But one think is for sure, if we dont dream, we die. Now this is true, and WHY we dream nobody know, but we must dream. There are many different ways to NOT have nightmares- My favorite and one i use all the time, is to just THINK about what you might find scary, and just consciously saying in your head “I WILL NOT HAVE A NIGHTMARE” This works for me everytime and i havnt had a single nightmare in like 8 years. I offcourse have had wierd and shocking dreams.
For me its as simple as this, as i just tonight trying to do some lucid dreaming, woke up after 5 hours a sleep to try to LD and right before i went to bed i saw that my computer was on and that it had some porn site up, and i didnt really mind that, so i went to sleep, and after some time trying to stay conscious, i had a fake awakening, my father actually was in my room turing my pc off and he saw the porn site, he didnt really mind and turned off the pc, thats all… I realised when i first woke up i have had a fake awakening, and i was cinda pissed off since i then tryed to do some lucid dreaming, i dreamt some more, and i cant really remember the dream that good, but the only thing i know was that i was on the egde of lucid dreaming ALL the time.
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I hope no one will mind my post 
but as said from LaBerge’s Book, A dream is made basically from schemes from the mind. In an example, lets put you on a street, its dark, and you immediantly think it’s night time. The street lights appear to shine, and you assume everyone is walking home. Your mind thinks of schemes for everything. You may not conciously do it, but like in your dream, your mind will come up with schemes wich will make the basic setting and “story”. Now you are just walking along this street, and you see a figure, you don’t know who it is, but you heard in the news the night prior that there was a mugger on the loose. You immediantly think it’s the mugger, and it is. You turn the other way and you immediantly think hes going to chase after you, he does. You run, and think he will run too, and so he does. It’s not just things from the day before you go to bed, your mind just makes up these schemes.
A better example would be… A man walks into the store. Now you may not realize it, but you can pretty much figure that the store has a roof, a floor, a door, ect. But we don’t really put much thought into this. Now this is what the mind does when we are sleeping.
I’m rereading this and it makes no sense 
would anyone like to explain this schemes theory better for me 
Sure. 
Hehe, I don’t think it was confusing. 
I’ll get yur example, see if I understood it correctly, okay?
Someone walks through the door. Straightaway, you assume there’s a door because there’s a room. Logically, in order to be a door, there are walls. If there are walls, and you’re into the room, then there’s obviously a roof above your head. Because that’s what makes a room a room: doors, walls and roof. Your mind model of a room makes the fact that someone entered through the door become a proof that there’s a roof above your head. And that’s how the dreamscape takes shape.
If you ever WILD, and manage to remember the transition between the hallucinations and the dream (I’m not good at that) you’ll see it makes a hell of a sense: you see a swing. You walk to the swing. Suddently there’s grass under your feet, and people walking around, and a playground comes to exitance out of nowhere. Pretty neat.
I am a bit of a skeptic when it comes to that. I doubt the subconscious record and store every experience we have. But yes, i am sure our brains store a great deal of memories that we do not normally have access to, so it is indeed a great tool. I had some similar experience not so long ago. In the dream my cell phone called and that call was from a friend i have not had contact with for many years. I remembered the number when i woke up and checked the internet phone book and it turned out it was the number for this person, even though i did not have this number memorized in my conscious mind.
The Schemas are the different parts of how we belive that the world is. For instance we have a schema for apple. They look a certain way, has some variations, tastes. We have schemas for everything and we use them all the time.
Hope that helps. I think schemas are a very good theory and it is a good explanation for dreams. The schemas are expectations, and we know what expectations do for dreams.
I want to add that I beilieve that dreams are the same as imaginings. Close your eyes and see if you see something. We dream all the time, it’s just when we sleep we don’t get distracted.
Yes yes! Thank you, this is what I meant