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| What It Means If You Dream About Someone Related Links Does Vitamin D Boost Your Mood?-A Comprehensive Review Salt May Boost Your Mood -But Health Authorities Don't Recommend It How to Feel Better -10 Great Tips Avoid These Foods If You Want to Boost Your Mood Something So Right-Get Used to Happiness Self-Confidence -How to Feel Better About Yourself Relationship Center Should I Marry Him? How Much Is Too Much Salt? Foods That Help You Lose Weight How to Get Rid of Those Dark Circles Foods That Help Treat Acne Natural Home Remedies for Headaches Quick Start Diet Small Steps to Lose Big Pounds September 29, 2010 By Muireann Prendergast, Staff Columnist Admit it. It’s happened to you at least once. You’ve dreamt about that colleague, that person you see on the bus every day or a friend of a friend and you’ve woken up looking at them in a new light. Was the dream a sign? If you dreamt about them, does this mean they also dreamt about you? Is this person your soulmate trying to communicate with you? Don’t worry, these questions aren’t just puzzling you, they have puzzled dreamers through the ages, as far back as the ancient Egyptians and maybe even further back. However, don’t expect easy solutions to your questions. There seems to be as many possible answers to what it is that dreams actually mean, as there are dreams themselves. So don’t go lifting that phone to call the person you dreamt about just yet. What are dreams? To complicate the matter, we cannot even say what dreams are exactly. Believe it or not, there is no universally-agreed definition as to what constitutes dreaming. What we can say dates back to a 1952 University of Chicago revelation, that dreaming happens during a period during sleep when our eyelids are fluttering. This is called REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep. During this period, complex brain activity was noted during the study including the memory recall of long periods of activity experienced before sleep by the dreamer. A 1957 study carried out at Stanford University found that dreams last from 5-20 minutes and that we spend about six years dreaming during an average lifespan. What Do Dreams Mean?--Different interpretations of dreams So, when you dream about someone, is a divine force trying to tell you something? The ancient Greeks and Egyptians thought so believing that dreams were a form of supernatural or divine communication. In Egypt, priests were called upon as dream interpreters while in Greece temples were built to cure sick people and the cures themselves were sought by calling upon divine intervention by inducing sleep and thereby dreams within the confines of the temple. In his 1899 publication, The Interpretation of Dreams, the Austrian- born father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud replaced the ancient world’s supernatural interpretation of dreams with a scientific one. He proposed that dreams were a form of ‘wish fulfillment’ loaded with symbols of the dreamer’s hidden desires. It is this interpretation that you are favoring when you wonder if your dreaming of a particular person reflects you’re a latent desire, or unfulfilled wish, towards them. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung developed Freud’s theory, modifying it and expanding upon it. He asserted that all characters in a dream represent not merely themselves but subjective aspects of the dreamer him or herself. Jung put forwards the idea that dreams have a language all of their own, expressive desires, illusions, hopes etc. For example an attractive figure in our dream might represent our personal desire to look more attractive. These systematic ideas were turned on their heads with a 1977 hypothesis from two Harvard University psychiatrists, James Allen and Robert McCarley. This version involves a neurobiological theory called Activation-Synthesis meaning that dreams are random. To put it simply, dreams are the arbitrary results of neurons firing in the brain although the material they fire with are our stored memories. If we go by this version, our dreaming about someone is relatively casual and happens on the basis that they are a face, among many others, stored in our memory bank. Conclusions? So what are our conclusions? Are there any? Do dreams mean something or are they entirely meaningless? Well, unfortunately, there is no satisfactory resolution to this issue and the debate continues. Which version should you lean towards? Well, that depends on whatever version makes you feel more comfortable on the bus or in the office. Fate or chance, you decide. You're just getting started. Find out more foods that keep you healthy, your skin young, and that speed up your metabolism: How to Feel Better - 10 Tips That Work /Foods That Speed Up Your Metabolism / Foods That Fight Wrinkles/ Does Vitamin D Boost Your Mood -A Comprehensive Review / What to Eat for Flawless Skin /Natural Body Cleanses |
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