Why do people think dreams can be interpreted? What's the psychology behind thiinking this way?

Question

The fact is that interpreting dreams is for entertainment purposes only and is a way people started their business to make money from because they didn't want to go to college and get a real job.

It's a proven fact that dreams are merely what you think about all day and are mish mashed with other thoughts. There is no interpretation for dreams. And you can change your dreams or stop your dream anytime you desire.

Answer 1

Well, Sophie, I'm wondering what kind of answer you're looking for.

Clearly you're looking for some kind of answer:  you know we're dream interpreters, and you posted here attacking dream interpretation for a reason.

Maybe you're looking for a fight.  It could be that you've got a lot of free-floating hostility, or it could be that you find the idea that your own dreams might tell you something threatening.

But I don't think it's that.  I think you're preoccupied with money:  your profile is all about money, and business, and your accusation sounds to me like you resent dream interpreters for making money.  That's the kind of resentment we might expect to hear from someone facing serious, and unjust, money troubles.

So, I'll let you in on something:  I make no money off the dreams I interpret here.  I don't think anyone here does.  It's a free site.  There are one or two people with businesses who seem to want the visibility; but it's a very small proportion.

I interpret dreams for free, because dreams interest me.  I'm at about a 50% "best answer" rate, which means half the time my answers are chosen as the best available explanation of the dream.  Do you think I'm just lucky?

--And don't say that the people whose dreams I interpret are especially foolish, because that doesn't explain why they pick my answers over, for example, DreamDoc (who I think has a 25% rating).

Personally, I'm a rationalist.  I don't believe in psychic interpreters; I think that dream dictionaries aren't very useful; but none of that means that we shouldn't study dreams.

Look:  dreams are spontaneously-occuring, universally-experienced, private *narratives* which every one of us gets every night.  If they were just noise, why are they in the form of narratives?  If they're just noise that somehow we *order* into narratives, fine, but what can we learn about the way the human mind orders noise?

I'm a hypnotist.  It's my job to speak to people in symbolically literate, emotionally salient ways that communicate specific messages to their inmost minds.  And don't give me "placebo effects" and don't give me "people want to believe."  If you think it's so easy, you try to hypnotise someone.

Studying dreaming, unravelling specific messages from rich dream narratives, has been totally helpful to me in learning better the emotional-symbolic language of the unconscious.  It's made me a better hypnotist, a better storyteller, and it's given me a better perspective on the emotional lives of the people around me.

So, how about this:  if it's such nonsense, then anyone can do it.  And you're a smart lady:  so jump in and you should be able to get a "best answer" rating of 15% in no time.

Or are you just talking?

Conrad.

ps -  Good luck with your finances.  Tough times.

C.

Answer 2

The scenario of Interpretation of Dreams is that God use dreams to send a message to his people inorder to take precaution of things that will happen. So interpreting it will make u know what God is revealing to you.  Through this a solution can be found.  Dream is not only what you think or imagine.  Some dream comes as a sign.  For example, God show Joseph in a dream what he was going to be  and he became a great man.

If someone is going to do something bad to you, you will not know but in dream you could see some sign of killing in your dream that could indicate that there is some killing coming your way either to you or to someone close to you. Dreams can be interpreted.

Answer 3

I remember a dream I had when I was younger that was so real.

It was something I couldn't have dredged up from past experience as I hadn't been down that path before.

Only in later life did I 'experience' that sensation and that dream came back in an instant.

The dream was on a subject that can't really be talked about here, if you catch my drift.

Answer 4

I had a dream when I was little that somebody died, and he really did a few days later.

Answer 5

are you being a dumb person? dreams can be prophetic and none of that hokey pokey s@%# either the subconscious mind is a very powerful calculator and as such can prepare you for an event that has or might occur. it can also be like you said nothing or a subconscious interpretation of happened. a prophetic dream will be much like the one i had with my friend who was proposed to and then an arguement between me and the guy who made the proposal, my dream happened two weeks prior. dreams are a natural function so please become a little smart first before you post a question

and also to, the guy below me is correct.

Answer 6

There is more than one language in the world, likewise there are as many ways of expression.  You happen to know one.  Others are bi, even tri-lingual.

Regards

Answer 7

Your facts are yours  They are not supported by the numbers of people in history and currently who study the human mind and brain.  Tell your ideas of control to combat veterans who suffer from PTSD.  That they are connected to daily life fits with some theories. That they serve no purpose does not fit with the man who invented benzene from a dream about snakes.   You would do well to study.  There is a great deal of literature on the mind.  Some neurological studies where parts of the brain are stimulated with electricity have yielded some interesting results too.  Entertain yourself with some good reading.

Answer 8

That goes back at least as far as Freud.  Our dreams can be information we're suppressing in our conscious states.  Of course some dreams mean nothing, but some can account for our behaviours and feelings.