Types of Dreams
Daydream
Studies show that we all have the tendency to daydream an average of 70-120 minutes a day. Day dreaming is classified as a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. It occurs during our waking hours when we let our imagination carry us away. As our minds begin to wander and our level of awareness decreases, we lose ourselves in our imagined scenario and fantasy.
Lucid Dream
Lucid dreams occurs when you realize you are dreaming in the middle of your dream. "Wait a second. This is only a dream!" Most dreamers wake themselves up once they realize that they are only dreaming. Other dreamers have cultivated the skill to remain in the lucid state of dreaming. They become an active participant in their dream, make decisions in their dreams and influence the dream's outcome without awakening.
Nightmare
A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes the dreamer to wake up feeling anxious and frightened. Nightmares may be a response to real life trauma and situations. These type of nightmares fall under a special category called Post-traumatic stress nightmare (PSN). Nightmares may also occur because we have ignored or refused to accept a particular life situation. Research shows that most people who have regular nightmares have had a family history of psychiatric problems, bad drug experiences, people who have contemplated suicide, and/or rocky relationships. Nightmares are an indication of a fear that needs to be acknowledged and confronted. It is a way for our subconscious to make up take notice. "Pay attention!"
Recurring Dreams
Recurring dreams repeat themselves with little variation in story or theme. These dreams may be positive, but most often they are nightmares. Dreams may recur because a conflict depicted in the dream remains unresolved and ignored. Once you have found a resolution to the problem, your recurring dreams may cease.
Healing Dreams
Healing dreams serve as messages for the dreamer in regards to their health. Dreams of this nature may be telling the dreamer that he/she needs to go to the dentist or doctor.
Prophetic Dreams
Prophetic dreams, also referred to as precognitive dreams, are dreams that seemingly foretells the future. One rational theory to explain this phenomenon is that our dreaming mind is able to piece together bits of information and observation that we normally overlook or that we do not seriously consider. In other words, our unconscious mind knows what is coming before we consciously piece together the same information.
Epic Dreams
Epic dreams are so huge, so compelling, and so vivid that you cannot ignore them. The details of such dreams remain with you for years, as if your dreamt it last night. These dreams possess much beauty and contain many archetypal symbology.
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Different Types of Dreams
Creative Dreams:
Many artists and writers have been inspired by images that have appeared in dreams. Such as Robert Loues Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Treasure Island; Mary Shelly and the Frankenstein's monster while dreaming. Many works of William Shakespeare, have very strong dream themes, to the extent that understanding their meaning is totally reliant on recongnizing the association between dreams and waking life.
In Lucid Dreams, the dreamer is aware that he is dreaming and can actually control the action: a bit like directing your own personal film. This takes lot of practice and skill - some lucid dreamers even claim to meet up with each other in their dreams, and wake to discover that they have both been dreaming about the same thing.
The most beneficial effect of Lucid Dreaming is that when a person is having a bad dream, he can either wake himself up or decide what he wants to happen in the dream and he can manipulate the outcome. This is very helpful to children who suffer from nightmares.
Nightmares: are usually the manifestation of personal fears and mean that something in the dreamer's life needs to be confronted. Common themes: experiencing a violent attack or seeing a friend have one; trying to get away from something or someone; trying and failing to set somewhere on time; and suffocating or paralysis.
Sometimes these nightmares will be related directly to the source of the fear or the anxiety that causes them, or they may just occur when the person is stressed.
Prophetic: The dreamer claims to be able to see into the future and predict events. Can be a form of warning for either the dream or someone close to him, and there are many examples of these types of dream coming true in real life.
Recurring: If a person has the same dream over and over, then something in the waking world is troubling him and needs to be sorted out. The subject matter and time of the dream should be analysed. Does it occur concurrently with certain factors in the dreamer's real world? Could it be linked to stress, or important events or people?
Visions: These can predict a future event, but in this instance may occur when the person is awake.
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