Harbal wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:27 amBut don't you find that when you think about particular aspects of some disturbing dreams, you can often relate them to fears and anxieties that you are conscious of?
I find that most people, including me, piece together significance and relevance of dreams or nightmares post hoc, meaning that connection between the conscious and subconsciousness is tenuous sometimes.
Nightmares, for example, are a way of forcing your consciousness to address subconscious fears and premonitions.
It's a way for your brain and body to focus your attention to what your instinct believes is a direct threat to your person and those around you.
Perhaps they don't so much tell you what you didn't already consciously know, but rather prompt you to do something about it. I daresay dreams have other functions, but I don't think there is anything mystical about them.
Depends on how you define mystical. I think nature itself is mystical, or magical, but that doesn't imply, at least to me, that it's not also perfectly natural.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:32 am
I find that most people, including me, piece together significance and relevance of dreams or nightmares post hoc, meaning that connection between the conscious and subconsciousness is tenuous sometimes.
Nightmares, for example, are a way of forcing your consciousness to address subconscious fears and premonitions.
It's a way for your brain and body to focus your attention to what your instinct believes is a direct threat to your person and those around you.
Perhaps they don't so much tell you what you didn't already consciously know, but rather prompt you to do something about it. I daresay dreams have other functions, but I don't think there is anything mystical about them.
Depends on how you define mystical. I think nature itself is mystical, or magical, but that doesn't imply, at least to me, that it's not also perfectly natural.
