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PostSubject: Dream Types   Dream Types Icon_minitimeSun Jun 08, 2008 12:01 pm

Just as there are different types of music there are different kinds of dreams. Although these different types of dreams can sometimes blend and merge, they are frequently broken into the following categories:

Amplifying Dreams
These exaggerate certain situations or life attitudes in order to point them out clearly for the dreamer. For example, a shy person may dream that they are invisible.

Anticipating Dreams
These dreams alert us to possible outcomes in situations in our waking life. For example, passing or failing an exam.

Cathartic Dreams
These dreams evoke extremely emotional reactions, when the unconscious is urging us to relieve pent up feelings we may feel unable to express in waking life. For example you may find yourself bursting into tears in your dream, or punching someone you find irritating, or telling your boss exactly what you think of them.

Contrary or Compensatory Dreams
In this type of dream, the unconscious places the dreaming self in a totally different situation to the one we find ourselves in waking life. For example, if your day has been filled with unhappiness and stress due to the death of a loved one or the end of a relationship, you may dream of yourself spending a carefree, happy day by the seaside. Your unconscious may also give you traits that you haven't expressed in waking life. For example, if you hate being the centre of attention you may dream of being a celebrity. Such dreams are thought to provide necessary balance and may also be suggesting to you that you should try to incorporate some of these traits into your waking life.

Daily Processing Dreams
This type of dream is sometimes known as factual dreaming. These are dreams in which you go over and over things that happened during the day, especially those that were repetitive or forced you to concentrate for long periods. These kinds of dreams don't tend to be laden with meaning, and most theorists think of them as bits and pieces of information your brain is processing.

Dreams of Childhood
Dreaming about your childhood may reflect a childhood dynamic which hasn't been worked out yet and requires a resolution.

False Awakening
It is thought that many reported sightings of ghosts are caused by false awakening, which occurs when you are acutally asleep but are convinced in your dream state that you are awake. This is the kind of vivid dream in which you wake up convinced that what happened in your dream really happened.

Incubated dreams
In this type of dreaming you set your mind on experiencing a particular kind of dream. For example, you may incubate a dream of a loved one by visualising your loved one's face before you sleep. The theory is that your unconscious responds to the suggestion.

Inspirational Dreams
Many great works of art, music and literature have allegedly been inspired by dreams, when the unconscious brings a creative idea to the fore. For example, poet and artist William Blake said that his work was inspired by the visions in his dreams.

Lucid Dreams
These dreams occur when you become aware that you are dreaming. It takes time and practice to stop yourself waking up, but it is possible to learn how to control the course of your dreams and become a lucid dreamer.

Mutual Dreams
This is when two people dream the same dream. These dreams can be spontaneous or incubated, when two people who are close decide on a dream location together and imagine themselves meeting up before going to sleep.

Nightmares
Nightmares are dreams that cause us distress or terrify us by waking us up before the situation has been resolved. Nightmares take place during REM sleep and typically occur when a person is feeling anxious or helpless in waking life. If you can identify the what is triggering these dreams, and work through the unresolved anxieties, it is possible to get this type of dream to cease.

Night Terrors
This type of dream is simialr to nightmares, but happen in deep sleep. We do not often remember what has terrified us, but we may be left with a lingering feeling of unexplained dread.

Out-of Body Experiences
Tis is also known as astral travel or projection, out-of-body experiences are thought to occur at times of physical and emotional trauma. Researchers often dismiss the idea but those that experience such dreams say that thier mind, consciousness or spirit leaves their body and travels through time and space.

Past Life Dreams
If you dream of being in a historical setting some believe this is evidence of past life recall, although most dream theorists dismiss the existence of past life or far memory dreams, or genetic dreams when you assume the identity of an ancestor.

Physiological Dreams
These dreams reflect the state of your body. For example, if you have an upset stomach, you may dream that you are being violently sick. These dreams may also highlight the progress of serious physical conditions or in some cases predict the onset of them.

Precognitive Dreams
These dreams are thought to predict real life events of which the dreamer has no conscious awareness. These dreams tend to be more common in people with psychic abilities. They are extremely rare but there have been many instances when people claim to have dreamt of things before they happened. For example, many people have cancelled flights or trains because of a foreboding dream.

Problem-solving Dreams
These dreams occur when you have gone to bed mulling over a problem and found answers in their dreams. This could be because your unconscious has already solved the problem and sleeping on it gives your unconscious a chance to express itself.

Psychological Dreams
These are dreams that bring things we would rather not think about to our attention. These dreams make us face aspects of our life or ourselves that might be hindering our progress. They are often about fear, anxieties, resentment, guilt and insecurities.

Recurring Dreams
Dreams that reoccur typically happen when the dreamer is worried about a situation that isn't resolving itself in waking life. When the problem is resolved in waking life the dreams usually end. This type of dream can also occur when the dreamer is suffering from some kind of trauma or phobia that has been repressed and not resolved.

Sexual Dreams
In dreams, sex can reflect the archetypal pattern which underlies the waking sex life or may represent a hoped for reunion with another part of ourselves into a whole.

Telepathic Dreams
In this type of dream someone you know appears in your dream in distress and you later find out that that person was experiencing a real life crisis at the time, such as extreme unhappiness, an accident or even death. It is thought that this type of dream is a meeting of minds between two people who are close to each other emotionally.

Vigilant Dreams
These are processing dreams that involve your senses. For example if your phone rings while you are asleep, the sound may be incorporated into your dream ans something else, such as a police siren.

Wish-fulfilment Dreams
These are the type of dreams in which you literally live the dream. We might win the lottery, date a celebrity or just go on a long holiday. In these dreams our unconscious is trying to compensate for disappointment or dissatisfaction with our current circumstances in waking life.


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PostSubject: Re: Dream Types   Dream Types Icon_minitimeMon Jun 09, 2008 12:04 am

i didnt know that there were so many different types.
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PostSubject: Re: Dream Types   Dream Types Icon_minitimeMon Jun 09, 2008 12:06 am

I think there are around 15/20 in total.
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PostSubject: Re: Dream Types   Dream Types Icon_minitimeThu Jun 12, 2008 4:24 pm

Very interesting whens the next installment?
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