Our Dreams
How your brain processes information
Every now and then i get a message from someone who tells me
that whenever they see a dream it happens in real life. For the first instance
this might not sound like a serious problem but when the person starts seeing
real bad dreams then this observation can be very troubling.
First of all i do not disagree with the theory that some
dreams are visions. In fact i do believe in that however what most people don't
get is that most of the dreams that they worry about are nothing more than
reflections of their own thoughts.
Our brains do a lot of processing to the information we
collect. The information that we receive through our sense can get edited,
altered, distorted and modified. See also Do dreams tell the future
Once you develop a certain belief then lots of editing and
deletion is going to happen to your perception just because you unconsciously
want to prove your beliefs correct. See How your beliefs and concerns affect
your perception
In other words once you believe that your dreams become true
you will only focus on the instances where that happens and you will ignore all
other situations where the dreams never happened. If each 100 dreams a
coincidence happened and the dream became true then you will believe that
everything you see in your dreams becomes true because your mind will discard
those 99 instances where your dreams never happened.
Why your dreams happen in real life
Now that you are aware how your mind works its time to know
why some of your dreams become true:
1) You get what you focus: If you focused on the connections
between your dreams and your reality then your mind will very likely help you
find those connections. Our brains interprets events in light of our beliefs
and so once a belief is developed it strongly affects our perception. See Why
you get what you focus on
2) Your dreams reflected your worries: In so many cases we
dream about the things we are concerned about. We usually become concerned
about things that have a certain possibility of occurring and this is why we
might think that our dreams are becoming true. See Why do we dream in symbols
3) You created a self fulfilling prophecy: In my article How
your name affects your looks i explained how we create self fulfilling
prophecies all the time and then make them true. Once you believe that a dream
is going to happen your behaviour might change and so you might end up making
it true
4) You only remembered the ones that happened:How many
dreams that you saw never happened? And why are you focusing on some dreams
while ignoring the others? What's the percentage of those dreams compared to
the total number of dreams you had?
Don't be obsessed with dreams
Yes i believe that some dreams might be visions but still
this doesn't mean that you should obsess over all of your dreams. Even if you
have visions that would still be a very tiny percent compared to the number of
dreams you see.
Most of your dreams never happened and will never happen
simply because they are mere reflections of what's taking place inside your
mind. In short, chill :)
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