Types of Dreams

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Nightmare: A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes the dreamer to wake up feeling anxious and frightened. Nightmares may be a response to real life trauma and situations. These type of nightmares fall under a special category called Post-traumatic stress nightmare (PSN). Nightmares may also occur because we have ignored or refused to accept a particular life situation. Research shows that most people who have regular nightmares have had a family history of psychiatric problems, bad drug experiences, people who have contemplated suicide, and/or rocky relationships. Nightmares are an indication of a fear that needs to be acknowledged and confronted.

Daydream: Day dreaming is classified as a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. It occurs during our waking hours when we let our imagination carry us away.


Recurring Dreams: Recurring dreams repeat themselves with little variation in story or theme. These dreams may be positive, but most often they are nightmares. Dreams may recur because a conflict depicted in the dream remains unresolved and ignored. Once you have found a resolution to the problem, your recurring dreams may cease.

Healing Dreams: Healing dreams serve as messages for the dreamer in regards to their health. Dreams of this nature may be telling the dreamer that he/she needs to go to the dentist or doctor.

Prophetic Dreams: Prophetic dreams, also referred to as precognitive dreams, are dreams that seemingly foretells the future. One rational theory to explain this phenomenon is that our dreaming mind is able to piece together bits of information and observation that we normally overlook or that we do not seriously consider. In other words, our unconscious mind knows what is coming before we consciously piece together the same information.

Epic Dreams: Epic dreams are so huge, so compelling, and so vivid that you cannot ignore them. The details of such dreams remain with you for years, as if your dreamt it last night. These dreams possess much beauty and contain many archetypal symbology.

Lucid Dream: Lucid dreams occurs when you realize you are dreaming in the middle of your dream. "Wait a second. This is only a dream!" Most dreamers wake themselves up once they realize that they are only dreaming. Other dreamers have cultivated the skill to remain in the lucid state of dreaming. They become an active participant in their dream, make decisions in their dreams and influence the dream's outcome without awakening.

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Nightmare: A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes the dreamer to wake up feeling anxious and frightened. This is primarily due to eating too much in dinner, sleeping wrong way so that sensitive nerves along the forehead nerves are pressurized, hands are putting pressure on the chest etc etc.

Daydream: A creative, non-logical, non-linear thought process. In other words what most ppl do when they get bored in a classroom. Also what young people do thinking about the future and middle aged people do thinking about the past.


Recurring Dreams: Heard about that guy who saw Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 300 times ? Sort of that thing, only that you got to see everything free.

Healing Dreams: A dream where StJude appears and says 'You are healed' and you are healed. Also sometimes where Lord Shiva appears all tell someone about a secret healing herb that cures AIDS so that he can make big bucks in a short time and get mentioned in some newspapers.

Prophetic Dreams: Where you get wisdom from heavens in form of riddles so that you can deliver then to layman in riddles. By this one can join the lineage of Osho.

Epic Dreams: A dream that is so vast that makes no sense and you get up tired in the morning and says 'OMG this epic is too long and absurd. I quit'.

Lucid Dream: Where you direct your own dreams. Did you see the film Matrix ?