Dreams are an incredible feature in us. Not only do we, but other animals also dream. Other mammals, reptiles, and even birds also dream. Once in a while, I see my dog sleeping and moving, and making noises. I keep imagining what she is dreaming about. How complex are their dreams? I bet that ours can be a bit more complex, since our dreams are based on our feelings and experiences, which for sure are also more complex. Like Eurythmics used to say, we travel the world and the seven seas, some of them want to use you and some of them want to be abused. We don't have limits in dreams and that is ok.
Many of our desires are meant to stay only in our dreams. Just because we kill someone in our dreams, it doesn't mean that we are murderers, or like my wife accuses me as a cheater when she dreams about me cheating on her. In this case, it wasn't even in my dreams lol. Fears and desires can be found there, as well as a random experience or a movie that you watched. Our brain tries to process everything to create these unique experiences.
However, many people use dreams as a possible sign of something that will come in the future. My mother-in-law loves that, she calls us once in a while to talk that she dreamed about something bad. I am not sure if she really dreamed that or if she just uses it as an excuse to make her point valid about an opinion. This isn't new, you can see in Holy books, people like Joseph, Jesus, Mohammad and the prophets that came with predictions that realized it based on dreams or divine messages. But how were they based on dreams or supernatural? If you check nowadays, many people show alternatives to bad things happening in the world and people just ignore them. Maybe religious leaders were just rational analytics of the reality, and most of the people decided to continue their lives normally as if nothing was happening.
I had some interesting dreams happening, and some of them show something, not about what is going to happen, but some signs about myself that I need to consider. Feelings that sometimes are oppressed or needs that are ignored. And about the dreams of a better future or dreams with those that we wanted to be near? Those are different dreams that we control, but still, we think about them. I keep thinking of people who are far from me, but I wish to be closer.
Dreams while sleeping, we don't have control, many times we wake up and wish that we hadn't had to wake up. And other times it is the opposite, we are glad that we are awake and that was a dream. But we should listen to the dreams; it is a good practice to understand a bit more about ourselves.
No entanto, muitas pessoas usam os sonhos como um possível sinal de algo que acontecerá no futuro. Minha sogra adora isso, ela nos liga de vez em quando para dizer que sonhou com algo ruim. Não tenho certeza se ela realmente sonhou com isso ou se ela apenas usa isso como uma desculpa para tornar seu ponto de vista válido sobre uma opinião. Isso não é novidade. Você pode ver nos livros sagrados pessoas como José, Jesus, Maomé e os profetas que fizeram previsões que se concretizaram com base em sonhos ou mensagens divinas. Mas como elas se baseavam em sonhos ou em algo sobrenatural? Se você observar hoje em dia, muitas pessoas mostram alternativas para coisas ruins que acontecem no mundo e simplesmente as ignoram. Talvez os líderes religiosos fossem apenas análises racionais da realidade, e a maioria das pessoas decidiu continuar suas vidas normalmente, como se nada estivesse acontecendo.
Tive alguns sonhos interessantes, e alguns deles mostram algo, não sobre o que vai acontecer, mas alguns sinais sobre mim que preciso considerar. Sentimentos que às vezes são oprimidos ou necessidades que são ignoradas. E sobre os sonhos de um futuro melhor ou sonhos com aqueles que gostaríamos de ter por perto? Esses são sonhos diferentes que controlamos, mas ainda assim, pensamos neles. Continuo pensando em pessoas que estão longe de mim, mas desejo estar mais perto.
Sonhos enquanto dormimos: não temos controle. Muitas vezes acordamos e desejamos não ter acordado. Outras vezes, acontece o oposto: ficamos felizes por estarmos acordados e por aquilo ter sido um sonho. Mas devemos ouvir os sonhos; é uma boa prática para entender um pouco mais sobre nós mesmos.
