The 9 Powers of Dreaming

By Robert Moss / Source: Dream Manifesto

 

Have you ever said, “it’s only a dream”? While we often dismiss dreams, or fail to make room for them in the hurry of our daily lives, dreams can be a fabulous source of guidance, healing and juice for any day. Dreams offer us nine tremendous gifts.

 

1. We solve problems in our sleep

Jeff Taylor woke in the middle of the night from a dream in which he created an electronic bulletin board that was lit up with eager job-hunters logging in from all over the map. He scrawled the phrase “Monster board” on a pad in the dark, then rushed to an all-night coffee shop and roughed out the plan for what became the stunningly successful internet job agency, Monster.com

 

If you want to solve a problem, or need a fresh perspective, sleep on it. Write down your intention (“I would like guidance on X”) before turning in, and be ready to record something whenever you wake up. Even if you have forgotten your dreams, you may find you have your solution.

 

2. Dreams coach us for future challenges and opportunities.

John Lennon dreamed he read his own obituary and was shocked to find that he had murdered himself, in front of the Dakota on Central Park. Eleven months later, he was murdered in front of the Dakota by a demented fan who identified with the Beatles star to the point where he married a Japanese woman, collected the same type of art, and signed out of work the day before the murder as “John Lennon”.

 

Lennon’s dream was precognitive; it showed him a future event that was played out when the wannabe John Lennon killed the real one. But dreams also give us early warnings: they show us future challenges (and opportunities) that may or may not play out, depending on whether we read the message correctly and take appropriate action. I believe that my own life has been saved from fatal road accidents on three occasions because I was able to use dream previews as travel advisories.

 

3. Dreams show us what our bodies need to stay well.

Wanda Burch’s dead father turned up in a dream in a white medical coat yelling at her, “Get to a doctor immediately! You have cancer!” She acted on the warning, getting medical help early enough to survive the disease. Her survival chances were greatly enhanced as she developed the ability to harvest healing imagery from her dreams, as recounted in her book She Who Dreams.

 

We have a wise physician and healer available in our dreamtime every night. Our dream doctor can predict possible symptoms long before they develop, prescribe appropriate treatments, and give us images the body can believe in to make us well or keep us well. Our dream doctor makes house calls and doesn’t charge a cent!

 

4. Dreams hold up a magic mirror to our actions and behavior

Renowned Swiss analyst Carl Jung was impressed by the experience of a wealthy businessman who was about to embark on a new venture when he dreamed that he got himself so dirty that his arms were covered in black muck, up above the elbows. He concluded that the new project was “dirty business”, and abandoned it.

 

Dreams give us an objective picture of our current actions and attitudes, and show us where they are likely to lead. When I was leading a very fast-track life, I dreamed I took a corner at insanely high speed in a beautiful racing-green Jaguar. Then everything came to a stop. A doctor in a white coat turned up and inspected my engine. He cautioned me that I ought to be much more careful. “If you smash up this vehicle, don’t imagine you’ll get one as good any time soon.” I took the advice!

 

5. Dreams are a secret laboratory

Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli, a pioneer of quantum physics, said that dreams were his “secret laboratory.” He recorded many thousands of dreams, and they guided not only his work in physics, but his researches in other fields such as philology and the interaction of mind and matter.

 

Many of our greatest scientists, inventors and discoverers have been world-class dreamers. The list includes Isaac Newton, physicist Niels Bohr, chemist Friedrich Kekule, inventor Elias Howe (who dreamed up the first practical sewing machine needle, giving us the modern garment industry) and Albert Einstein, who woke on a spring morning with the special theory of relativity clear in his head.

 

6. Dreams are a creative studio

Jacqueline Mitchard, author of the bestselling first novel The Deep End of the Ocean told Oprah she got her whole plot from a dream, though it took her several years to bring all of the book through. The stunningly original architect Frank Gehry dreams up building designs. He says he based part of his design for a cancer center on dream conversations with a woman friend who had died from breast cancer. He dreamed his dead friend told to make his design softer, to appeal to women patients; in the finished version he worked in shapes derived from the folds of fabric in a shawl.

 

To be creative is to bring something new into the world. Whatever our field of interest – from a dinner party menu to the next leap in nanotechnology – our dreams provide a creative studio where we try out new ideas and make connections that escape the everyday mind.

 

 

7. Dreams help us mend our divided selves

New York actor and playwright Roger Ziegler dreamed he looked in a mirror and saw many selves, aspects of himself at many ages, each bringing different gifts. He was thrilled as he watched them embrace and join together, becoming a single being – all except a shy five-year-old he had to rescue later on.

 

Our dreams put us in touch with many parts of ourselves, including shadow aspects we may have sought to repress or deny, and also that larger and wiser Self who can help us grow.

 

8. Dreaming is a key to better relationships

Schoolteacher Marybeth Gurske dreamed that her heart was opened, and she saw an “energy cord” running from her open heart to her dream partner, the ultimate “Mister Right.” She painted that beautiful image. When she dated men, she checked whether the energy in the encounter matched that of the dream, and moved on fast when it did not. Every night, she imagined herself being drawn, inexorably, by that heart-cord towards the man of her dreams. Fourteen months later, she found him and they are now married.

 

Dreams can introduce our life partners. They can also put juice and depth into an existing relationship, or show us when it is time to cut our losses and move on. Sharing dreams in a family circle or among friends or workmates is a great way to build stronger connections, solve mutual problems – and have fabulous fun. Through dreams, we can also heal our relations with our departed, bringing a blessed sense of forgiveness, closure and continuing or reviving love.

 

9. Dreams recall us to our larger our purpose

Australian Aborigines say that the Big stories are hunting the right people to tell them, like predators stalking in the woods. Dreams put us in touch with our bigger stories and our larger life purpose. When we can make a connection between life’s everyday dramas and a bigger story, we find courage and direction for whatever life throws at us.

 

Robert Moss is a world authority on dreams, a bestselling novelist, and a former foreign correspondent and professor of ancient history. He is the author of The Three “Only” Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination and The Secret History of Dreaming (New World Library). Visit his website www.mossdreams.com

The Hidden Meanings of Dreams

By Lee Dye/ Source: ABC News

 

Here’s the scene: You wake up after dreaming about a horrible plane crash, and you’re scheduled to board an aircraft later in the day for a long-awaited trip. Will that nightmare have any effect on whether you continue with your plans?

 

Possibly, according to a new multi-cultural study involving nearly 1,100 people around the world. You may not cancel your trip, but your dream will probably weigh as heavily on your thoughts as if there had been a real plane crash that day, not just a dream, according to the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

The study suggests that humans from a wide range of cultures believe their dreams are a window into the inner workings of the mind and that they may even influence our activities while we’re awake. Dreams are serious stuff.

 

“Most people understand that dreams are unlikely to predict the future, but that doesn’t prevent them from finding meaning in their dreams, whether their contents are mundane or bizarre,” said psychologist Carey Morewedge of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, lead author of the study.

 

Do Dreams Really Mean Anything?

 

No doubt even the earliest humans were perplexed and fascinated by dreams that can sometimes seem as real as the world around us. Do they really mean anything? Scholars tended to dismiss them as little more than mental fireworks until the latter part of the 19th century. But when Sigmund Freud published “The Interpretation of Dreams” in 1899, he introduced science to the complex and bizarre world hidden in the human mind.

 

Freud called dreams the “royal road to the unconscious,” and for more than a century now, researchers have tried to travel down that road. We know now that dreams do mean something, and they are universal. The most common dream, according to some studies, occurs in all cultures, and it’s virtually certain that anyone reading this article has experienced the same dream. Someone, or something, is in hot pursuit, and if the dreamer can’t escape, the consequences will be deadly.

 

That universal dream usually means the person feels threatened, or under attack, or is recalling a time when an attack was real.

 

Dreams Contain ‘Hidden Truths’

 

Nearly as common is that old dream of showing up in public and discovering that you forgot to put your pants on before leaving the house. It can mean different things, but usually the person feels exposed or vulnerable.

 

The interpretation of dreams is still a fuzzy area, and may always be so, but Morewedge and Michael I. Norton of Harvard University and a large team of associates wanted to move dream research into a new arena that is difficult to study: Do dreams actually influence our behavior?

 

The researchers carried out six studies in both Eastern and Western cultures (the United States, South Korea and India) that led them to conclude that people place considerable importance in their dreams, because dreams come from within the brain, not from outside sources, and thus contain “hidden truths.”

 

 

Here are just a few of their findings:

 

A majority of 182 commuters in Boston reported that dreams affected their daily behavior. Some 68 percent said that dreams foretell the future, and 63 percent said at least one of their dreams had come true. “Participants were more likely to report that a dream of a plane crash would affect their travel plans than a conscious thought of a crash or a warning from the government,” the study found.

Three-hundred forty-one pedestrians were surveyed in Cambridge, Mass., and people who believed in the Freudian theory of the subconscious were more influenced by their dreams than were nonbelievers, but “regardless of the theory of dreams that they endorsed, participants considered dreams to be more important than similar thoughts occurring to them while awake…” the study found.

Sixty undergraduate psychology students at Rutgers University were asked whether they believed in God on a five-point scale ranging from definitely to doubtful. “Not surprisingly, believers rated dreams in which God spoke to them as more meaningful than did agnostics,” the study found. Also, not surprisingly, “agnostics reported that dreams were more meaningful when God suggested that they should take a year off to travel the world than when God suggested they should take a year off to work in a leper colony.”

The Role of Dreams in Our Waking Lives

 

Consistent throughout the study is the thread that dreams do play a role in the waking lives of most people. They come from within and, thus, contain “hidden truths” that could be useful in real life, or so most of us believe.

 

The researchers end their report by cautioning that dreams can cause a bit of mischief.

 

“Dreams of spousal infidelity may lead to suspicious accusations, alienating one’s spouse and potentially provoking actual infidelity,” they cite as one example. But they go on to add that dreams of infidelity may also be based on fact.

 

“Dreams may integrate seemingly unrelated evidence — unexplained credit card charges, smudges of lipstick, distant behavior — into a correct diagnosis of infidelity,” the study suggested.

 

But they are still just dreams. Not many psychologists would embrace the idea that dreams are a clear window into the inner self, and that they can predict the flight you are supposed to take later today is going to crash.

 

“We close by noting that, although dreams are unlikely to predict future world events, it is possible that they may provide some hidden insight into diurnal life in the way that laypeople believe they do,” the study concluded.

 

 

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A Few Famous Dreamers : The Power of Dreams

By Catherine Guthrie

Source: The Ledger

 

In her book, “The Committee of Sleep,” dream researcher Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., recounts stories of celebrities and historical figures who’ve successfully mined their dreams for gold.

 

Billy Joel: The singer/songwriter says he often dreams musical arrangements; he’s gone so far as to say, “I know all the music I’ve composed has come from a dream.”

 

Annamaria Gundlach: This artist found over time that she could design pots by waiting to see the next one in a dream. She observed its shape and size; it would usually be embedded with everyday objects such as nails and fabric, and she would faithfully re-create it. Her major traveling show was called Dreams in Clay.

 

Paul Horowitz: A real-life version of Jodie Foster’s character in the movie “Contact,” he’s a Harvard physics professor whose passion is designing telescopes to hunt for evidence of extraterrestrials. When he’s building a new one and gets stuck on a technical glitch, he’ll dream he’s looking over the shoulder of a man solving the very problem that has stumped him.

 

Frederick Banting: This Canadian doctor dreamed a way to isolate insulin and, therefore, make diabetes treatable.

 

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: On a rainy night in 1816, Lord Byron challenged his houseguests to write a horror story. That night, Shelley dreamed the basis for what would become her best-selling novel, “Frankenstein.”

 

Paul McCartney: In 1965, the 22-year-old Beatle dreamed the melody of the song “Yesterday.” Upon waking, he immediately sat down and played it on the piano.

 

Stephen King: The prolific writer of grisly tales admits that he’s reaped images from his vivid dreamscapes for his novels and short stories, including Salem’s Lot and It.

 

Katherine Mansfield: An unusual dream experience became her successful short story Sun and Moon. It is an impressionistic tale seen through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy. “I dreamed it all,” she said.

 

 

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Scientists Develop Software to Map Dreams

This is something I have been fascinated with since my childhood—Best wishes,Donald Ryles PhD

 

 

The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.

 

By Danielle Demetriou / Source: The Telegraph

 

A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.

 

While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the brain, the discovery paves the way for the ability to unlock people’s dreams and other brain processes.

 

A spokesman at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories said: “It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity.

 

“By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams.” The scientists, lead by chief researcher Yukiyaso Kamitani, focused on the image recognition procedures in the retina of the human eye.

 

It is while looking at an object that the eye’s retina is able to recognise an image, which is subsequently converted into electrical signals sent into the brain’s visual cortex.

 

The research investigated how electrical signals are captured and reconstructed into images, according to the study, which will be published in the US journal Neuron.

 

As part of the experiment, researchers showed testers the six letters of the word “neuron”, before using the technology to measure their brain activity and subsequently reconstruct the letters on a computer screen.

 

Since Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams over a century ago, the workings of the sleeping human mind have been the source of extensive analysis by scientists keen to unlock its mysteries.

 

Dreams were the focus of a scientific survey conducted by the Telegraph last year in which it was concluded that dreams were more likely to be shaped by events of the past week than childhood traumas.

 

 

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Sleep Can Bring Life Changing Ideas

From solving problems to flashes of inspiration, scientists are beginning to unravel the creative powerhouse that is the mind at night.

 

By Kate Wighton / Source: The Times UK

 

History is peppered with tales of phenomenal ideas taking shape in sleeping minds; Paul McCartney said that he awoke with the tune of Yesterday in his head, and Robert Louis Stevenson said that the idea for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to him in a dream.

 

But what exactly is going on in our minds while we sleep? Does slumber really prompt creative genius? And can the most uncreative of people receive flashes of inspiration once their head hits the pillow?

 

Scientists believe that the mind at night weaves together bits of information in innovative ways. Throughout the day your brain rarely gets a chance to stop and think. In a state of constant alertness, it responds to a stream of challenges, from writing a report for a work deadline to remembering where you left your car keys and figuring out what to buy for dinner.

 

Even when we are relaxing in front of the television, the brain is still beavering away, processing the information about the plot lines, or co-ordinating your arm movements every time you sip your wine. Believe or not, even watching Strictly Come Dancing requires brain power.

 

Sleep is the only time when your brain gets to relax and mull over the thoughts of the day. This is when new ideas and ways of thinking start to emerge.

 

“Think of your brain like a web,” says Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University.

 

“During the day the web is very tight, so you can only put information in a certain number of places. During sleep the web expands, and with the luxury of time, those bits of information can be put into lots of different places and make new associations.”

 

 

He adds that this process may help to foster the formation of new ideas. Experts, however, are divided on whether this occurs when you dream, or during deeper, non-dreaming sleep. This bringing together of seemingly unrelated bits of information is crucial to helping the brain think itself out of problems, says Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher at University of California, Berkeley.

 

“Sleep seems to stimulate your mind to make non-obvious connections. It puts all the information from the day into a big biological theatre and forces the mind to speak to people at the back of the theatre, who you may not think you have any connection with. This is the basis of creativity – connecting ideas, events and memories that wouldn’t normally fit together.”

 

In fact, this creative process has been visualised by scientists. By placing volunteers into brain scanners and sending them to sleep, scientists have seen that the areas associated with emotion go into overdrive, especially while dreaming, while the areas that are responsible for logic are switched off. This not only explains why dreams are incredibly random – you can be talking to a colleague one minute and the next minute sitting in a your old school classroom dressed in your pyjamas – but this rewiring also explains how the brain can pull together disparate information. As to how much sleep we need, experts believe this varies from person to person. But a sure sign of sleep deprivation is feeling sleepy during the day, aside from the mid-afternoon slump.

 

How to be inspired

 

Lack of sleep kills creativity: According to Professor Foster, a good night’s sleep increases the likelihood of developing novel solutions to problems. If your grey matter won’t produce a solution to a vexing problem – sleep on it.

 

Go to bed early: One study suggests that the most creative part of our sleeping occurs in the first half of the night, during slow-wave sleep. So if you need an answer to a solution and are short on time, it’s best to go to bed early and get up early, rather than to stay up late.

 

Mull over a problem before you go to bed: Try to direct your creative powers by thinking about the problem you want to solve, but don’t fret over it – you won’t be able to sleep.

 

 

 

Storing Memories and Building Consciousness

 

Once asleep, your brain gets busy making sense of your experiences from the previous day, consolidating memories and transforming short-term memories into long-term ones. Become sleep-deprived and your memory suffers.

 

Jan Born, a neuroscientist at the University of Lübeck, Germany, believes that this memory storage takes place in non-dreaming deep sleep, and that most of it is done in the first half of the night.

 

“Sleep is very important for establishing consciousness by creating long-term memories. Without memories we wouldn’t have consciousness.”

 

According to Jim Horne, a sleep researcher at the University of Loughborough, brain recovery begins after 30 minutes of sleep, and continues for the next five hours.

 

How to improve memory

 

If remembering phone numbers and directions is taxing, make sure that you’re getting enough sleep – about seven hours. Lack of shut-eye can affect our working memory.

 

One of the best times to commit something you want to learn to memory is between 6pm and 8pm, because that’s when our learning circuits are most active.

 

If you want to ensure that your grey matter has enough sleep to function properly, but find it hard to drop off, performing a routine before bedtime may help. According to Russell Foster, of Oxford University, routines help people to switch off and calm the chatter in their head. “For me, it’s reading. I have to read something before going to sleep, even if it means doing so by torchlight with my wife asleep next to me,” he says. Others find that the process of making a hot (caffeine-free) drink can help to prepare their minds for sleep.

 

Reining In Emotions

 

Studies have indicated that the emotional circuits in our brain are 60 per cent more active when we are tired, or, put another way: “When we are deprived of sleep, we have the emotional integrity of Britney Spears,” says Matthew Walker, a researcher at University of California, Berkeley.

 

Through his experiments he believes that the parts of the brain that keep our emotional brain in check start to dwindle when we need sleep. This results in our brains switching to an almost Neanderthal state – impulsive and driven by emotions. “Sleep refreshes the brain’s emotional circuits so that it can deal with emotional challenges,” he says.

 

Fretting points

 

Perils of sleep deprivation If you’re going through a tough time in your professional or personal life, getting enough sleep is essential. Become sleep-deprived and your frayed emotions will reach breaking point. Lack of sleep increases levels of the hormones cortisol and adrenalin, making us tetchy.

 

Don’t fret If you are worried about something, and find it hard to get to sleep, don’t lie there fretting. It’s likely that you will then start worrying about not getting enough sleep, and so the worry perpetuates. Jim Horne, a sleep researcher at the University of Loughborough, and author of Sleepfaring: A Journey Through The Science Of Sleep, recommends doing a jigsaw in a dimly-lit room. This will take your mind off your worries (more so than TV or a book), and should have you feeling sleepy within 10-20 minutes.

 

Don’t make important decisions late into the night Hold that conversation until the next morning, and have a fresh look at that angry e-mail before hitting send.

 

 

Battling the Midnight Munchies

 

Once you’ve nodded off, the brain ramps up various hormones to ensure that you’re not woken up by a gurgling tummy. These hormones trigger the release of fat from the body’s stores to keep hunger at bay until the morning. Unfortunately you won’t shed any pounds, although it’s worth remembering that not enough sleep can result in weight gain because the hormones are thrown out of sync.

 

How to keep hunger at bay

 

Try to avoid eating just before bedtime This applies to fatty foods in particular, as they may cause heartburn. Ditch the cheese sandwich in favour of a hot drink.

 

If you are on a diet It’s essential to get enough sleep if you want to lose weight. A lack of sleep plays havoc with the appetite controlling hormones, leptin and gherlin, making you super-hungry.

 

Avoid night-time trips to the fridge In most cases midnight snacking is simply comfort eating; your body doesn’t actually need sustenance. And for a good night’s sleep forget the nightcap, as alcohol can disrupt sleep.

 

Secret Dreams – And Those You Remember

 

Many of us will know people who claim that they never dream. They’re wrong; during a typical night we have four periods of dreaming sleep. However, although we all dream for 100 minutes a night, we remember only the last few minutes of a dream, if any of it at all.

 

The only way we can remember a dream is to wake up while it’s happening. Typically, this happens during our last cycle of dreams, which are the most intense, and occurs just before we’re due to get up and our alarm clock brings us out of slumber. Don’t over-analyse your dreams. According to Jan Born, of the University of Lübeck, we fill in the gaps in our dreams and stitch together random events to produce something meaningful.

 

Sweet dreams – and how to get them

 

Don’t fret over anxiety-filled dreams If you’re very anxious during the day, the chances are that you’ll have anxious dreams. Try to work out what’s worrying you – perhaps try writing it down, along with possible solutions.

 

Don’t watch the news or a depressing TV programme just before bed. Your head will be full of angst and woe, and this will bleed into your dreams. Try deep-breathing exercise to switch off your brain before going to sleep.

 

Try a herbal sleeping pill containing valerian and hops A study of 30 people last year found that it could ease insomnia. Similarly, in 2006, a study of 43 student nurses found that placing lavender oil on your pillow helped to reduce anxiety.

 

Protecting Us From Ourselves

 

As a form of self-protection, your brain paralyses the body while dreaming. However, if awoken suddenly from a nightmare, a person may find themselves briefly unable to move. This is known as sleep paralysis and in severe cases it prompts hallucinations, with the nightmare continuing in the waking mind.

 

Sleep-walking and sleep-talking occur in a non-dreaming stage of sleep. Consequently, your body is still able to move. Another type of “dreaming” that occurs in non-dreaming sleep is night terror. Particularly common in young children and people suffering from post-traumatic stress, these terrifying visions wake the person in a severely upset state. Yet the dreamers have no recollection of this in the morning.

 

Get a handle on sleep-walking and talking

 

If your child or partner is sleep-walking The most important thing is not to worry, as this could worsen the problem. Sleep-walking is linked to stress; if the person detects that you’re worried, it may make them more anxious.

 

Find the source of their angst And try to resolve it. Talk to the person or child about anything that may be troubling them

 

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10 Common Dreams and their Meanings

Source: The List Universe

Everyone dreams (even if we don’t always remember them after the fact) and researchers have found that the majority of us have dreams with similar themes.

For years people have tried to interpret the fleeting images that we see when we go to sleep – some interpretations are outright bizarre, while others are pretty understandable. This is a list of the interpretations that the Association for the Study of Dreams has given to the most recurring and common types of dream.10. Car Troubles

 

In these types of dreams you are usually in or near a car or some other type of vehicle which is out of control or has other problems that seem insurmountable. For example, the brakes may have failed, you may have lost control of the steering, or be heading over a cliff or crashing. You can either be the driver or the passenger. This is a very common type of nightmare and it occurs in all people – not just those who can drive. This dream usually means that you are feeling powerless over something in your life – or that you are heading for a crash (metaphorically speaking).

9. Faulty Machinery

In the faulty machinery dream you are trying to operate mechanical equipment which either fails to work, or fails to work in the way that you expect it to. The vast majority of these dreams involve a telephone – either trouble dialing, losing a connection, or dialing a wrong number. It can involve a lost Internet connection, or something manual like a jammed or broken machine. This dream often means that you feel you are losing touch with reality, or that a part of your body or mind is not functioning as it should. It can also occur when you are feeling anxious about making a connection with another person in real life.8. Lost or Trapped

 

Dreaming about being lost is very common and will usually occur when you are having conflict in deciding how to react in a situation in real life. In the dream you are trying to find your way out of an area – such as a forest, city streets, a large building, or other maze-like structure. Another way this dream plays out involves you being trapped, buried alive, caught in a web, or unable to move for some other reason. This is often accompanied by a feeling of terror. This dream usually means that you are trapped in real life – unable to make the right choice.7. Missed a Boat or Plane

 

In this type of dream you are rushing to catch a bus, train, plane, or other type of public transport – but you miss it – usually by a fraction of a second. Rather than feeling fear in this dream, you usually feel frustration. This dream can also occur in a different form, in which you arrive late for an important performance or sporting event that you are supposed to participate in, only to find that the event has already begun. This dream usually means that you feel that you have missed out on an important opportunity in your real life. It will often occur when you are struggling over an important decision.6. Failing a Test

 

This dream usually manifests itself in people who have been out of school for a long time. In the dream you are prevented from passing a test in a variety of different possible scenarios. In one scenario you find that you are unable to make it to the test on time, often through being unable to find the test room. In other versions you are unprepared (either through lack of study) or you are missing equipment. This dream usually means that you are feeling tested in some way in your real life. You may feel that you are unprepared for something or playing the wrong part in life.

5. Ill or Dying

In this dream, you (or a loved one) are ill, injured, or dying. It is a moderately common dream and, not surprisingly, occurs often at the onset of an illness. Aside from becoming ill, this dream can mean that you are emotionally hurt or are afraid of becoming hurt. The dream may also be warning you of an upcoming physical risk to yourself or a loved one. When it is someone else in the dream that dies, it can mean that you feel that part of yourself (that you see represented by that person) is dead. It may also mean that you wish the person would go away, or that you fear losing them.4. Being Chased

 

Dreaming of being chased can be a truly horrifying experience. Most often the chaser is a monster or some person that is frightening, and occasionally it may be an animal. You may be surprised to know that this is the most commonly experienced nightmare theme. The meaning of these dreams is that someone, something (possibly something as obscure as an emotion) is making you feel threatened. One way to determine the root of the threat is to ask yourself who or what in your real life most closely resembles the “creature” or circumstance in your dream. It is also worth noting that sometimes this dream is a replay of an actual event in your life.3. Bad or Missing Teeth

 

Teeth dreams are fairly common and they usually involve the discovery of extremely decayed or missing teeth in your own mouth. Sometimes you will dream that you open your mouth and your teeth begin to fall out. The fact that the majority of people today have reasonable teeth (perhaps with the exception of the British), it is not surprising that we feel so emotionally disturbed by these dreams. So, what does it mean when we dream about missing teeth? At the most basic level it means that we are afraid of being found unattractive. At a deeper level, it can signify a fear of embarrassment or a loss of power in real life. Oh – I was just kidding about the “British” thing!2. Dream Nudity

 

In this type of dream you are in a state of undress, partial undress, or inappropriate dress (for example wearing pajamas to work). Occasionally you are the witness of another person who is naked while you are clothed. This is often accompanied by feelings of embarrassment and shame, but occasionally with the feeling of pride or freedom. The meaning of this dream is that you are feeling exposed, awkward, or vulnerable, or you are afraid that you have revealed too much of yourself (such as a secret or a very personal feeling) in a real life situation. An interesting fact about this type of dream is that it occurs much more frequently in people who are involved in a wedding ceremony in their real life.1. Falling or Sinking

 

We have all had falling dreams – it is such a common dream, in fact, that myths have arisen over them; the most common myth is, of course, that you will die if you hit the ground in the dream. I can assure you, having hit the ground in more than one falling dream, that this is not true at all. In the falling dream we are usually falling through the air and frightened. Occasionally we may be sinking in water (and in danger of drowning). Typically a person having this dream is feeling insecure or lacking in support in their waking life. These dreams often occur when you are overwhelmed in life and feel ready to give up. If you have this dream you should evaluate your current situation and try to locate the problem that is overwhelming you. Deal with it and this dream should go away.

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