Dreams or Demons: Unravelling 5 Different Types of Dreams and Their Meaning
Shataghnee Chanda
September 5, 2024. 4 minute Read
Listen to this scenario carefully, You wake up in the morning with a heavy head and yawn but your last night’s memory is vividly stuck in your mind. By confusing dreams with reality, you got down from bed heading towards the washroom.
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Meanwhile, you suddenly realise that you have forgotten the memory and that it was your dream from last night. Now, you remember nothing about that!
Are you having a smile on your face? Then, The One Liner is here to dive your interest one step ahead!
Did you know that around 95 per cent of dreams are forgotten by the time a person gets out of bed?
Isn’t it fascinating? Yes, it is!
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In the article, we will discuss types of dreams, their significance, and how to interpret dreams.
Growing curiosity? Why wait? Let us dive into the surreal world of dreaming!
Know The Intriguing World of Dreams!
Have you ever wondered how some sleep feels so real after waking up? Or perhaps, you just regret it ending, as it was your secret wish in life! Dreams are a mystery of humanity since the series of memories and pictures come into your mind while speaking. These dreams can be strange, delightful, terrifying, or even prophetic.
But, why does that happen?
Scientifically, dreams are largely the result of the brain’s activity during Rapid Eye Movement (REM). These particular phenomena help the brain to create rapid, imaginary, and vivid memories in a cycle. During the initial stage of sleeping, our brain activities decrease, known as the NON-REM stage. However, as sleep intensifies, brain activities slowly start occurring, and we enter into REM sleep.
At night, the cycle of REM and NON-REM sleep occurs several times with each REM stage typically longer as night passes. By exploring different types of dreams, we will learn more about our inner self, and imaginary power!
Types of Dreams
A. Ordinary Dreams
1. Definition and Characteristics
Ordinary Dreams is a type of dream from which we wake up more often than ordinary dreams. These types of dreams usually occur during REM sleep, which is known by high activity of the brain. In an ordinary dream, we will experience different known scenarios, people, and feelings; however, this content is fragmented or illogical.
2. Common Elements Involved
Ordinary Dreams incorporate people we encounter daily, places we have been, and events that transpire in our lives. However, they can be fantastic and partly real, too; the laws of the physical world do not always apply.
You can fly or talk to the animals, or events can occur at times and places that are nonexistent. But even regular dreams, even though they seem to deal with nothing, nevertheless reflect our subconscious thoughts and emotions and give us a chance to glance into the inner world.
B. Lucid Dreams
1. Definition and Features
One exciting variety of dreams is lucid dreaming; it comes with an exclusive experience feeling wherein one can be aware that it is but a dream. During this process of lucid dreaming, one can control the storyline of the dream, its characters, and all their surroundings. In this respect, awareness alone would always make the dream both interesting and very often exhilarating experiences.
2. Techniques for Inducing Lucid Dreaming
The techniques below will help you get a lucid dream if that interests you.Reality Testing: First, there is something called reality testing, a habit of asking yourself throughout the day whether you are dreaming. The habit needs to be maintained and carried on into your dream, you can have lucid dreams.
- Wake-Back-To-Bed (WBTB): You sleep five to six hours, get up and stay awake for some time, and then go to bed. This can increase the likelihood of subsequent REM sleep periods producing a lucid dream.
- Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD): Before sleeping, repeat out loud something such as, "I will realise that I'm dreaming," several times as you are falling asleep. This may keep your mind primed to become lucid.
- Lucid Dreaming: Lucid dreaming is exciting but can also be very helpful in overcoming your fears, enhancing your creativity, and exploring your subconsciousness.
C. Nightmares
1. Understanding Nightmares
Among the more painful types of dreams are nightmares. They are terrible and unpleasant dreams, especially those that evoke strong, negative emotions: horrible fear, anxiety, or sadness. Anything could be a contributing factor to nightmares.
In the most usual cases, it would appear that something acting as a factor usually provoking stress, trauma, a certain kind of drug, or insomnia is involved in the appearance of nightmares. They occur more often in children but may occur at any age.
2. Coping Strategies
Some of the ways of dealing with nightmares frequently are as follows:
- Relaxation Techniques: The practice of relaxation exercises before sleep, including things like deep breathing, meditation, or muscle relaxation, helps to reduce nightmares.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: It helps to recognise and change the thinking patterns that may cause unrest during the night.
- Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT): While awake, one pictures a different, less-threatening ending to the nightmare, and it supposedly reduces its intensity.
Understanding what causes nightmares and how to cope with them will reduce their occurrence and intensity. Hence, enabling them to sleep much sounder.
D. Recurring Dreams
1. Meaning and Interpretations
Recurring dreams occur regularly throughout a person’s life, with some continuity of theme, setting, and even characters. They can be pleasing, neutral, or disturbing and are often unresolved or an emotion your subconscious mind is working through.
By its very nature, a recurring dream requires more of your attention in real life. For instance, the recurrence of a dream of being chased may indicate avoidance of an issue, or simply, fear of something or someone. While at it, a flying dream could merely indicate a need or wish to experience freedom, up above daily humbug-or simply, to feel on top of one’s life.
2. Solving Recurring Themes
It will generally involve a little reflection to understand what emotion, symbol, or theme is involved when remembering recurring dreams. This reflection will often aid in determining the current life stage. This includes writing down the dream and sharing it with a trusted friend or therapist. It is in these types of discussions that any valuable insight often arises.
Dealing with the problem your recurring dream is trying to show you stop dreaming and will solve the problem.
E. Prophecy Dreams
1. Understanding Prophecy's
Prophetic or precognitive are varieties of dreams, to predict the future. Quite often, prophetic dreams are vivid and well-remembered thus leaving a strong impression on the person who dreamed them. Though some believe in prophetic dreams, others consider they can foresee the future, while others say that these are just a function of the brain when it works out an event based on subconscious knowledge.
2. Controversies and Interpret
The concept of the prophetic dream borders on controversy because many sceptics try to explain such dreams as a form of coincidence or selective memory, in which the dreamer only remembers those dreams which come to pass. Evidence showing baseline correlates is critical even when limited to simple self-report, as found in confirmations obtained by questionnaire in the first study.
It is easy to say you had a prophetic dream, but you should be open-minded and critical. It would help to keep a dream journal in which you write down all your dreams and later, try to find the pattern. A prophetic dream-whether or not it is conceived as an actual prediction-could be important for your subconscious thoughts and feelings.
Dream Interpretation
A. Analysis and Reflection
The process is, therefore, a deeply personal and enlightening means of analysing the dreams themselves. All that one has to do is interpret the symbols, emotions, and themes of the dream wherein he understands better about the subconscious mind and how it trickles into the daily segment of the individual. The analysis of dreams does not take any professional help but rather closer and more open-mindedness of the person.
Keep a dream journal and jot down every dream upon waking, no matter how minuscule it may feel. Notice what patterns are coming through the symbology that continues to come up, the emotion deriving from them, and the themes; meditate on how that might apply to life. Sometimes it is unclear, and it may take more time to reflect to pull out what is being said.
B. Seeking Professional Help
Though most of us interpret our dreams themselves, some seek advice from experts, especially when the dreams get too disturbing or confusing. A professional therapist or counsellor qualified in analysing dreams will lead the individual to find deeper connections or meanings within his or her dreams.
Recurring dreams, nightmares, and trauma-coping dreams require professional interpretations of dreams where interpretation of the psychological underpinning of the dream is the most relevant step in healing and personal growth.
Final Thoughts
In a nutshell
These various general types of dreams-ordinary and lucid, nightmares, recurring dreams, prophetic visions-there can be a revelation about oneself through one’s emotions, wants, and fears. Advantages go from the discovery of oneself to the overcoming of personal stumbling blocks.
Accordingly, we can understand ourselves, settle these as-yet-undissolved problems, and even direct or encourage ourselves in the wake of life. But the next time that dream has to go, and you wake up, take that time to reflect; you never can tell what might fall between thoughts or messages.
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