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What Do Dreams Mean? 15 Common Dream Interpretations

Humans have always tried to interpret their dreams. From ancient wives’ tales to complex theories, the ways people analyze them continue to evolve.

Assigning certain meanings to dreams has gained traction in pop culture as both a source of entertainment and self-reflection. However, does anyone really know what dreams mean?

Some people may say that dreams are a way for your brain to process thoughts and feelings, but no one fully understands their purpose. To explore the possibilities, we’ve collected information on 15 of the most common themes and what they are said to mean.

1. Dreams About Being Chased

Dreams about being chased are extremely common. In these dreams, you may not know exactly what or who is chasing you. You may also feel like you can’t run fast or that trying to run faster results in you actually slowing down.

Dream interpreters often interpret these dreams as you attempting to avoid something in your life, or that you want to escape from fears or unwanted desires.

If you’re able to identify what or who is chasing you, that can further explain your dream. For example, a dream about being chased by a potential love interest could mean that you’re afraid of romance or a new relationship.

2. Dreams About Falling

Dreams where you’re falling are also common and typically stem from anxiety. Many people think that falling dreams occur to express fear or insecurities you feel like you have no control over.

Dream interpreters also widely believe that falling dreams are a sign that something in your life isn’t going as well as you had hoped. Perhaps you are failing at work or failing in a relationship, which could lead to dreams like this.

3. Dreams About Being Naked

If you’ve ever had a dream in which you showed up to school, work or somewhere else public in your birthday suit, you’re not alone. It’s normal to fear societal embarrassment, which is what these dreams typically symbolize.

Dreams about being naked in public can also mean that you’re worried about your appearance or that you’re trying to hide something from others.

4. Dreams About Flying

Dreams where you’re flying like a superhero can mean that you feel liberated, powerful or free. On the other hand, dreams about flying can also indicate that you feel a desire to escape or fly away from something in your life.

Not all flying dreams are bad, however. If you are flying alone this can mean that you feel independent and confident.

5. Dreams About Teeth Falling Out

People quite commonly have dreams about teeth — either that they’re falling out or that they’re loose and wiggling. There are also dreams where people suddenly have no teeth. If you’ve experienced this, don’t be afraid.

This is likely your brain’s way of coping with a situation in which you feel powerless, embarrassed or unable to communicate. These types of dreams could also indicate that you’re worried about your personal appearance or that you may have said something embarrassing.

6. Dreams About Death and Dying

Experiencing a dream in which you or a loved one dies can be frightening. Not to fear, though — dream theorists commonly think dreams like this are associated with a fear of change.

Change can be scary because, like death, it’s hard to know what’s on the other side of that change. This is why your mind tends to equate change with death. These dreams are also common in those who are entering the end of their lifetime, and many even find them comforting.

7. Dreams About Taking a Test

In dreams about taking a test, the dreamer often imagines themselves taking an exam or realizing that they aren’t prepared for an exam they have coming up. Since the underlying issue here is the lack of preparedness, dream theorists think this is your brain processing the stress of not being ready for a certain situation.

The situation, of course, isn’t always a test. It can be a presentation at work, an overdue project or a big social event. They can also mean that you’re feeling judged or tested by a person or situation in your life.

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Dreams About Pregnancy

Dreams about pregnancy or preparing to give birth can signify that you’re experiencing a new beginning in your life. Of course, this could be a child, but it could also be something you’re about to embark on.

Maybe you’re thinking about switching careers, starting a new relationship or moving to a new city. All of these could cause you to dream about being pregnant.

9. Dreams About Water

If water is present in your dreams, this could be a sign that you feel overwhelmed or unsupported by the people around you. It could also signify feelings of freedom or peace.

To determine what the dream symbolizes, think about your feelings toward water. If they are positive, water in a dream will likely manifest as something good. If you are afraid of water or something similar, it will symbolize something more negative.

Also think about the kind of water present — was it a deep, turbulent ocean or a calm, babbling brook? Since dreams are so subjective, water can manifest in a lot of different ways.

10. Dreams About Infidelity

When you’re dreaming about being cheated on by your partner, it can be incredibly distressing. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your partner is being unfaithful. Some dream theorists believe that our brains like to test “what if” situations to better prepare us for potential real-life situations or work through fears.

Still, others think that dreams about infidelity mean that there could be issues with communication, trust or loyalty in your relationship. If you’re the one cheating in the dream, it could mean you’re not getting everything you want out of your current relationship.

11. Dreams About Food

Dreams that involve food are fairly common and typically involve the dreamer eating all sorts of delicious things. This could be pizza, ice cream or anything else that’s indulgent. Many people speculate, though, that this type of dream is typically caused by going to bed hungry.

If you’re very hungry or thinking about food when you go to sleep, you’re likely to dream about it. What you eat before bed is also said to impact what you dream about.

12. Dreams Where You Can’t Move

If you have a dream in which you can’t move — for example, you’re running in place or you can’t seem to walk or move forward — this could be a sign that you feel like you’re not in control of some aspect of your life.

You may feel like no matter how much effort you’re putting into something, you’re still spinning your wheels. If you’re having this dream you might want to consider setting some new goals and figuring out a more concrete direction in life.

13. Dreams Where You Can’t Speak

Have you ever had a dream where you’re desperately trying to speak or scream but can’t? Some people report that, in these dreams, something is stuffed in their mouths. They also may have a lot of sticky food in their mouths that they can’t swallow.

Dreams like this can indicate that there’s something on your mind that you want to share, but feel like you’re unable to. You may feel ignored or feel that your opinions aren’t being heard or considered.

14. Dreams About Animals

Most people will dream about animals at one point or another. Like dreams about water, dreams about animals can be interpreted in various ways. Typically, these animals will symbolize different things to different people.

Sometimes animals can symbolize a trait or emotion. For example, if someone is portrayed as or with a lion, they may be strong and powerful. If your dream involves a serpent, you may feel like you’re being betrayed or someone is being dishonest.

15. Recurring Dreams

Dreams that happen repeatedly typically mean that there’s an unresolved conflict in waking life. These dreams tend to be negative or stressful, and will likely stop once the issue in your life has been resolved.

Recurring dreams occur in for 60 to 75 percent of adults and are more prevalent in women than men. They are also more likely to occur with people who are unhappy with their current situation in life.

Do Our Dreams Really Mean Anything?

The jury is still out on whether or not dream interpretations are accurate. However, many famous psychologists had theories on why we dream. They also had suggestions for dream interpretation and processes in which they believed people can better understand their dreams.

Freud
In Sigmund Freud’s book “The Interpretation of Dreams,” he theorized that dreams are related to wish fulfillment. He wrote that subconscious desires are hidden behind the actual imagery in our dreams. According to Freud, the dreamer can decipher these by reverse-engineering the “dream-work” their brains have done to help them figure out and process emotions and desires.

Jung
Carl Jung had a slightly different approach to deciphering dreams. He thought that dreams reveal both thoughts from the collective unconscious and personal beliefs. He also believed that these thoughts are often portrayed as symbols and archetypes such as the hero, the mother and the wise old man.

Unlike Freud, Jung wrote that dreams are highly personal and that only those very close to the dreamer could decipher them.

Hall
Calvin Hall interpreted dreams as a way in which the brain conceptualizes elements of our waking lives. He would examine the dreamer’s actions, the interactions within the dream and the objects or symbols present when trying to interpret them.

He would also look at the setting. He believed that by understanding what these elements meant and why they were portrayed a certain way, he could understand the dreamer.

Tips for Remembering Your Dreams

The first step to interpreting your dreams is to remember them. However, many people find that they can’t recall dreams once they wake up. There are a few ways people claim they can train their brains to remember dreams.

Keep a Dream Diary: People who write down their dreams right when they wake up tend to eventually remember them more vividly. Even if you only remember small aspects or fleeting images, it’s important to record them. Over time, you might see patterns.
Train Your Brain: Before you fall asleep each night, try to remind yourself to remember your dreams. Let it be your last thought as you’re drifting off. Right when you wake up, try to recall your dreams, even if it’s just a feeling. Over time, this can help you remember more accurately.
Wake Up Without an Alarm: Since your dreams are already fading from memory when you wake, any large distraction is sure to absorb your mind’s focus. This is why it’s best to wake up naturally to allow your brain time to focus on remembering the dream.

Limit Alcohol and Caffeine: These substances can inhibit REM sleep, which is when your brain does the bulk of its dreaming.
Follow a Regular Sleep Schedule: Since you experience most of your dreams in the REM stage, you’ll want to ensure you’re getting enough REM sleep. To do this, sleep for at least seven hours every night and stick to a consistent sleep schedule.

Now that you know all about what dreams mean and why we have them, it’s time to start interpreting your own! They can be a valuable resource for self-reflection, introspection and fun.

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Imagine this. You’re enjoying a deep, restful snooze when suddenly you startle awake. However, it’s not from noise outside, but a vivid dream.

That’s not necessarily out of the ordinary. But you might wonder why your dreams are so realistic. And what does it mean when you dream about someone? What do falling dreams mean? What about recurring dreams?

Psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung developed theories to explain what dreams mean. “Freud thought dreams are repressed content, ideas or themes,” says behavioral sleep medicine expert Michelle Drerup, PsyD, DBSM. “And Jungian theory came out of Freud’s ideas and has this idea of collective unconscious. It’s something that you’re carrying from your ancestors.”

But from a medical perspective, dream interpretation is still a mystery. “There’s no real consistent, scientifically proven theory linking specific content back to what a dream means,” Dr. Drerup notes.

What are dreams?

Dreams themselves are a little less mysterious. “Dreams are mental imagery or activity that occur when you sleep,” explains Dr. Drerup. You can dream at any stage of sleep, but your most vivid dreams typically occur in rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep. That’s the period of sleep when your brain is highly active, your eyes move rapidly behind your closed eyes and you have temporary loss of muscle tone.

“In REM sleep, we have less autonomic stability,” says Dr. Drerup. “Our heart rate increases. We don’t have the kind of steady, calm respiration that we do during other stages of non-REM sleep.”

Researchers find it challenging to analyze dreams because we often don’t remember them. “Even if you’re having a sleep study, it’s not like we can look in your brain and see what’s happening during a dream,” says Dr. Drerup. “That’s part of the reason why they’re still kind of mysterious — they’re difficult to study.”

Why do we dream?

Doctors have several working theories as to why we dream. For starters, Dr. Drerup says you also tend to dream more in REM sleep. Additionally, dreaming during this stage is associated with “consolidation of memories,” she adds.

“That dreaming may represent important cognitive functioning. Brain activity that occurs when we’re dreaming is similar to the memory processing brain activity we experience when we’re awake.”

When you’re experiencing more stress or anxiety, you tend to dream more, too. The types of dreams you have also change. Dr. Drerup says that nightmares or stressful dreams — for example, about being chased or being in a frightening situation — are also common when you’re stressed. “That’s one of the theories of why we dream,” she says. “Our dreams might help us process and manage our emotions.”

Interestingly enough, Dr. Drerup notes that researchers have found that people living in certain places might have similar nighttime visions, although they aren’t quite sure why. “There seems to be some cultural influence on dreams,” she explains. “For example, the same type of dream might be more common in Germany.”

What do dreams mean?

Determining what dreams mean is a big question, one that doctors, researchers and scientists are still trying to answer. But Dr. Drerup stresses that dream interpretation is subjective. “That’s always what I tell people — the meaning that you ascribe to the dream is going to be much more meaningful than anything I ascribe to the dream,” she says. “Because it’s probably something from your life that’s represented in that dream.”

As an example, Dr. Drerup notes that you might have the same dream as someone else, but yours will be more representative of what you’re personally experiencing. “For example, if someone recently lost their job, a certain dream about not being able to find their shoes might mean something very different to them versus someone who recently went through a divorce.”

Dreaming that you’re pregnant — in other words, involved with a new life — is also subjective. This could occur maybe when you’re trying to get pregnant or if you were pregnant and had a miscarriage. Or maybe not. “It’s much more of what this dream means to you. Your dream of pregnancy could be much more about, ‘I’m starting a new career.’ A new life, in a sense. The dream could mean a whole lot of different things.”

Although experiences you have in a dream might be based on real-life events, that doesn’t mean your dreams are always realistic. “A person might be distorted in the dream, or in a situation or place where they wouldn’t normally be,” notes Dr. Drerup. “What does that mean? Your guess is as good as mine.”

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However, sometimes even the strangest dreams have logical explanations. Dreams about your teeth falling out could be happening because you’re grinding your teeth in your sleep, a condition called bruxism. “This dream is more a sign of psychological stress,” says Dr. Drerup.

What causes nightmares?

Nightmares can be terrifying and have lingering effects even when you’re awake. “With nightmares, especially recurring nightmares, it can feel like you’re playing out a story,” says Dr. Drerup. “People often say it’s like the same movie’s playing.”

Talking about a nightmare like you would a movie you’ve seen can bring about unexpected consequences. “If you have a nightmare, you’ll tell everybody about it because it was so weird, right?” ventures Dr. Drerup. “But rehearsing that nightmare over and over again means your neural pathways are getting reinforced. It’s like you’re developing a memory of that nightmare. Then, it’s more likely the dream will reoccur.”

Dr. Drerup says nightmares are commonly associated with a variety of other conditions and events as well, such as:

PTSD

For someone living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), nightmares are often a component of re-experiencing or re-living their trauma.

Alcohol

Overindulging a bit too much can exacerbate nightmares.

Stress

High stress levels can lead to more dreams and nightmares. According to Dr. Drerup, this is likely because the stress is kicking the emotional processing that occurs during dreaming into overdrive.

Psychological disorders

Dr. Drerup says psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety are associated more frequently with nightmares.

Medication withdrawal

Withdrawing from certain medications can also cause more nightmares. “Antidepressants suppress REM sleep, and decrease the amount of REM sleep that we have,” explains Dr. Drerup. “When you go off of an antidepressant, you tend to have REM rebound.”

In other words, you experience more REM sleep, which then makes it more likely that you’re spending time where dreaming happens. “People will often have an increase in dreams or nightmares when they discontinue antidepressants,” she adds.

Addressing untreated sleep apnea

People who get help for untreated sleep apnea often have “a high level of dream recall and potentially nightmares as well,” says Dr. Drerup. “If you have sleep apnea, you’re having fragmented disrupted sleep.” Getting better quality sleep means you’re going into REM sleep — and staying there, “instead of having these brief arousals that are keeping you out of that stage of sleep,” she notes. “You’ll have that REM rebound as well.”

Can sleep disorders affect dreaming?

Sleep disorders can affect all aspects of slumber, including dreaming.

Nightmare disorder

For some people, nightmares are more than just a temporary scare. They have a sleep disorder called nightmare disorder.

“With nightmare disorder, you have these really distressing nightmares that are repetitive,” says Dr. Drerup. “They occur frequently. They wake you from sleep. You can’t get back to sleep afterwards. You have a panicked feeling upon awakening and take a while to reorient.”

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This disorder can be debilitating, as you’re often very tired during the day. But Dr. Drerup says treating nightmare disorder is possible using what’s called imagery rehearsal therapy.

“This treatment has some really significant research backing behind it,” says Dr. Drerup. “You work with your therapist to rewrite the nightmare to contain less disturbing content, and then practice the new dream imagery during the daytime.”

“It’s like guided imagery of that new content to make the dream less distressing,” she continues. “The image you’re practicing can replace or decrease the frequency of that disruptive nightmare, or completely eliminate it altogether. ”

REM sleep behavior disorder

A sleep disorder called REM sleep behavior disorder can also cause abnormal dreaming. “During REM sleep, your muscles are typically paralyzed, so you don’t act out dreams,” says Dr. Drerup. “From an evolutionary standpoint, it happened because it was more protective for us to not be able to move when dreaming.”

People living with REM sleep behavior disorder, however, actually aren’t paralyzed — meaning they can move in their sleep while dreaming. Dr. Drerup says it’s not always an issue, but can be in certain situations.

“It’s often not as disruptive to you unless you’re punching someone in your dream, and then punch your spouse or the nightstand and injure yourself,” she says. “There are safety concerns with this.”

REM sleep behavior disorder can also foreshadow bigger health problems. “When someone is diagnosed with REM sleep behavior disorder really early in life, that’s linked to a really high conversion rate of someone eventually developing Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia. ”

Is it normal not to dream?

Dr. Drerup says there is a rare condition called Charcot-Wilbrand syndrome where people don’t dream at all. This dream loss occurs following focal brain damage (typically a stroke) that’s specifically characterized by you losing the ability to mentally recall (or “revisualize”) images.

Most people do dream, though — you just don’t recall them. “People will say, ‘I don’t dream at all, because I don’t sleep well.’ And that’s not necessarily the case,” explains Dr. Drerup. “Just because you don’t have dream content doesn’t mean that you’re not dreaming. We usually don’t remember our dreams unless we’re awoken from them.”

At the end of the day, however, dream interpretation is still a big mystery yet to be solved. But if you’re trying to puzzle out what your subconscious is trying to tell you, look to your day-to-day life for clues.

“We can have really good recall of a dream when we wake up, and then it’ll fade away,” says Dr. Drerup. “And then you think back, ‘I know I had a weird dream, but I don’t remember it.’ So, if you want to have more awareness, jot details down as soon as you wake up — what was the dream, identify if there’s patterns.”

“Once again, it’s much more what meaning you ascribe to dreams,” she adds. “That’s key. That’s more relevant than dream interpretation books that list specific interpretations.”

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Dream interpretation is not easy, but the process is extremely exciting. Let's see what role recurring dreams and nightmares play. How do dreams affect life? Maybe they have some kind of clue and no one but us can understand it?

They are chasing you, but you cannot see the pursuer, you feel something terrible behind your back, but it is better not to look back. Legs become wadded, breathing is interrupted. Or you are terribly late, but it seems that you can’t get to the right place. No matter how fast you move and how far to the goal, you cannot understand what is happening, only you know: you can not stop. You run with all your might as long as your legs carry you. You suddenly wake up abruptly. Fortunately, this is only a dream, but it is not possible to shake it off immediately.

Dreams in which someone is chasing us or running somewhere are common, as are those in which we fall, have sex, go back to school.

Most people dream of scenes of persecution, this is the most common plot of children's dreams

The same scenario is repeated in people belonging to different cultures, living in different places. What is this mystery of the human mind hiding, and is there a rational explanation for it?

Unresolved problems

Dream scientists agree that dreams are psychological in nature. Scenarios—say, seeing yourself naked in the middle of a class or running down the halls—indicate strong emotions or internal conflicts. Thus, one's own nakedness is associated with shame and helplessness. The subconscious can give out such a picture if in real life a person suppresses these feelings. The version has the right to exist.

For example, you often dream that you are standing at attention in class, flunking an exam, or trying to get out of trouble. If you think about it, you can find many reasons for this. Perhaps the old school trauma and the childhood fear of the punishment that will follow if you do not cope with something reminds you of itself. Maybe you are going through a tough time and your subconscious associates stress with the classroom environment, even if you have long graduated from high school.

Images and experiences from childhood, deeply hidden in the mind, continue to influence life both in dreams and in reality when we become adults. Psychoanalysis has been working on this for decades. Attempts to interpret these symbols and erase the line between the secret and the obvious are often erroneous.

Pay attention to the context

It must be understood that there can be no single answer here. It is possible to reveal the content of a certain plot in general terms, but the context is determined by the experience and characteristics of the individual. Carl Jung believed that dreams are a means to establish a connection between consciousness and subconsciousness in the process of becoming a person, which he called "individuation". Accordingly, they simply perform their function and there is no need to decipher them.

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A dream that recurs frequently can provide insight into trauma or indicate physiological and psychological problems. Before approaching the solution of symbols from a dream, one must take into account that obstacles block the path to the depths of the subconscious.

All hypotheses are good

The phenomenon of sleep paralysis confirms that the mysterious nature of sleep cannot be explained solely by scientific explanations. The same can be said about the pictures that we dream of.

Both psychological and physiological mechanisms are responsible for everything that we experience in a dream. One-sided perception is not objective. For example, why do many people dream that their teeth are falling out? This can be associated with fear of the dentist, but most often such a vision is visited by those who grind their teeth in a dream, pure physiology.

Trying to debunk the theory of the mystical and spiritual origin of dreams with the help of knowledge of physiology may seem too mundane. But if you brush aside such a banal explanation, you can miss interesting details. Much depends on the position in a dream, since at this time the pressure on different parts of the body and internal organs is unevenly distributed. For example, people often have nightmares when they sleep on their left side: studies point to a link between this position and nightmares.

Collective nightmare

Quite often an important aspect is not taken into account - the cultural factor. Talking about him, one cannot fail to mention the popular night terror: the man in the hat. The ominous silhouette has appeared to many people who have experienced sleep paralysis. Horror when a stranger in a hat comes to destroy you, and you can not move. The vision is so real and impressive that after such an incident, one person created the blog The Hat Man Project (trans. The Man in a Hat Project): he did research and found people who also described a similar figure that arose with sleep paralysis. The resource still exists, anyone can share their feelings and thoughts about the eerie vision.

How is it possible that all these people dreamed of the same evil character? If we assume that the state of sleep paralysis opens a portal to other worlds, it turns out that the parallel reality is extremely hostile to ours?

There is a hypothesis according to which those who have encountered the unknown try to find in the subconscious a culturally accessible clue

A state of stupor in a dream from the area of the unknown. When a person is threatened by something, instinct makes you panic.

The demons that sit on the chest of a sleeping person, depicted in old drawings, are one of the confirmations of what incredible images our psyche creates. The man in the hat, in turn, resembles Freddy Krueger. The movie A Nightmare on Elm Street is based on the experience of sleep paralysis and Freddie is created as a symbolic embodiment of evil. However, it does not matter what came first, the egg or the chicken. The main thing is that the man in the hat makes the imagination of the sleeping people real.

What have we come to? What are nightmares hiding? Perhaps they have a bit of everything from the above and something that has not yet been given to understand. The realm of dreams is uncharted territory, so it pays to keep your mind open to all possible hypotheses. To understand yourself and your dreams, you will have to penetrate deeper into them and put together all the fragments and small pieces. If you decide to do this, the unknown will cease to frighten. Who knows, suddenly the door to a new reality will open before us.

Three books on the subject

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
Georges Romet's Dictionary of Dream Symbols
The Gifts of Dreams by Araza
How the unconscious helps us find answers, know ourselves and see changes in reality”

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when and on what days do you dream

The father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud said: “The more strange a dream seems to us, the deeper meaning it carries. ” It is not for nothing that we used to call night visions with subtext prophetic dreams. They, like an internal oracle, not only suggest what is wrong, but also indicate where to run. Human consciousness is critical: sometimes it devalues events that are important for his internal development, forcing him to perceive them as something insignificant.

Haven't called your parents for a long time? Nothing, then, - calms the mind. Didn't talk heart to heart with the children? Time is like that. But the psyche can not be deceived - recognizing an obstacle that creates problems for the inner "I", it sends us signals in a dream when consciousness loses its vigilance. She pushes the "owner" to concentrate on something, to rethink, hints at the correct outcome. After all, prophetic means predictive.

But a person cannot always distinguish when he has prophetic dreams, and when the brain simply draws meaningless pictures. Experts say it is possible to learn to recognize dreams with meaning and understand why they dream. You can even calculate when the "dream prophecy" will come true.

- It depends on what phase the dream was in, - explains numerologist and esotericist Anton Ushmanov . - It is conditionally possible to divide a dream into 3 intervals - the beginning, the middle and the end. If a prophetic dream had a dream in the first phase, then it will come true within a year. If in the second, in the middle of the night, then - within 6 months. If in the third, closer to the morning - for a month. If you saw a prophetic dream just before dawn, it will come true within 12 days. And if, before sunset - during the day.

In addition, it is useful to know what days of the week prophetic dreams occur.

What is a prophetic dream

Prophetic dreams are usually viewed from two positions - scientific and esoteric. From the point of view of science, sleep as such is the result of the work of the brain, which, as you know, never sleeps. Throughout its life, the human supercomputer has been busy modeling reality based on experience gleaned through receptors, hearing, smell, sight. The human brain processes a million signals per second. But while we are awake, we cannot realize the results of this “revision” - consciousness interferes.

“At night, when our rational part is resting, the brain calmly processes all the information for the day through the subconscious,” explains the process psychologist Lyubov Ozhmegova . - And we see the images that the subconscious shows.

Just with their help, according to psychiatrist, psychotherapist, dream specialist, author of the first scientific Internet dream book in Runet Yaroslav Filatov , the brain helps a person understand how this or that situation will develop. In fact, the models that the brain builds are the very prophetic dreams.
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“Some say that the brain predicts in a dream,” Filatov argues. - But it would be more correct to say - it models: the state of objects, the reactions of people. Brain models are built constantly, and in a dream they appear to us.
Esotericists and followers of spiritual practices associate the phenomenon of prophetic dreams with the reading of information from space.

“It happens unconsciously,” shares his thoughts energy therapist, author of the life reconstruction method Alena Arkina , - Possible scenarios in real life are read.

- The most important thing in prophetic dreams is that, having seen them, a person can draw conclusions, realize the reasons for what is happening to him, get answers to questions, - summarizes the psychologist-hypnologist Alexandria Sadofyeva.

Why prophetic dreams occur

Mystic Denis Banchenko is sure that prophetic dreams occur for three reasons. First, when a person was too close to an important event. Secondly, when the "genius of the earth" directly pushes him to pay attention to this or that situation. And thirdly, when consciousness reaches such a level of development that it itself conducts an information signal from the outside.

- A person can capture the vibrations of space in the form of a beam of information (a future event), - energy therapist Alena Arkina explains . - In parallel, there is an infinite number of options for the development of events. And a person catches one of them in a dream.

This happens when the brain and subconscious are trying to show the most probable scenarios for the future. But why does our supercomputer and inner self need this? Why should they show us where to go and where to spread the straw?

“The brain is busy helping us to survive every minute,” psychiatrist Yaroslav Filatov reminds . If nothing bad happens, it doesn't mean that there are no dangers. And the task of the psyche is to reveal our capabilities and abilities that will help in development. From the fulfillment of these tasks, prophetic dreams are born.

In other words, in order for a person to “receive a hat” less during wakefulness, the psyche tries to reach out to him at night.

- Dreams are dreamed by all living beings who have a soul - assures esoteric Anton Ushmanov . - At night, we get the opportunity to live through some of the negative scenarios, "digest" them in a dream in order to avoid or learn how to cope live.

On what days prophetic dreams come true

Monday

It is believed that empty dreams are dreamed on the first day of the week. There can be many emotions and experiences in them, but not very prophecies. But if the dream that occurred on Monday is vivid and memorable, you can try to decipher it. Perhaps he will suggest a solution to some minor life task, but you should not look for a deep decisive meaning in it.

Tuesday

Dreams on Tuesday may come true. And, quite quickly - within two weeks. If the Tuesday dream is with a plus sign, it is better to make every effort to make it come true. And if with a minus sign, on the contrary, it makes sense to try to make sure that the dream does not come true. In fact, Tuesday is the day of choice, when you have to decide whether you want the dream to turn into reality or not. The consequences of inaction can be very unpleasant.

Wednesday

On Wednesdays, as esotericists say, there is not much trust in dreams. They are mostly empty. You don't have to trust them too much. In dreams that occurred on Wednesday, as a rule, there are no prophecies, but there are “bells” regarding your character and personal qualities. They can be a revelation. Try to figure out what the psyche signals: this will help to work on yourself.

If the dream you had on Monday is vivid and memorable, you can try to decipher it. Photo: pixabay.

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Thursday

"Dreams from Thursday to Friday are prophetic" - this is how people think. And experts say it's true: Thursday's visions openly hint at the future and indicate how this or that situation will develop. Prophetic dreams that appeared on Thursday will come true within three years. Often on Thursdays, romantic, fabulous visions come. But in fact, they are far from romance as such. She is just a symbol. Even in such dreams, you need to look for important life prophecies.

Friday

Friday dreams are usually very ordinary. Deciphering them is just a waste of time. But if you dream of a romantic plot on Friday, it directly hints at a relationship with your soulmate. A bad dream "about love" does not bode well in reality. So be vigilant and take action.

Saturday

Saturday sleep should be analyzed more closely. It may come true before noon. In addition, esotericists say that a dream that occurred on Saturday can predict not only your future: you can see in it what awaits your loved ones. I often have nightmares on Saturdays. They do not need to be afraid, but worth taking into account.

Sunday

Sunday sleep can be "ordered". If you concentrate well and formulate a desire (or question), you may dream of exactly the situation that worries you the most. Sunday dreams are often prophetic and come true quickly. Often on Sundays, good prophetic dreams are dreamed, predicting prosperity.