What Are Dreams
What are dreams? People say dreams are mental images of one’s most intimate and desirable wants. I agree with this, but only to a small degree. I mean, this makes sense when you’re having a good dream, but what if you’re having a nightmare? Is the thought of falling off a cliff, being shot, or someone chasing you with an axe really your deepest, darkest desire? I would hope that it is not. So really, what do these bad dreams mean?
I’m not going to bore you with a really long scientific meaning to this question. Urban legend gives us so many more interesting answers. One legend about bad dreams is: you have bad dreams by having bad actions. I’m sure we all can remember being told or telling our children. “You had that bad dream because you were acting badly all day yesterday.” Come on, I know I wasn’t the only one! And no, my mom wasn’t mentally abusing me by telling me this. It is just a way to remind kids to mind their behavior. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it did not.
Another legend about bad dreams is that your bad dreams come from what you had eaten the night before. This has to be my second favorite legend ever. We have all heard it before.”That sandwich I ate last night gave me nightmares. Really, does a certain food make you have a certain kind of dream? My doctor tells me to stay away from tomato based dishes because of my GERD, but not because it will make me have a nightmare about getting my head cut off.
My last and favorite urban legend about bad dreams is the one about if you have a dream about falling and you hit the ground, you will not wake up. Where did this one start? Who defied the odds and lived to tell the story that they hit the ground? Why can’t anyone hit the ground after them? Until I meet this person I’m staying asleep.
See, I told you this would be more entertaining than a scientific explanation. Urban legends about having bad dreams, do you have any?
Never thought of dreams that way.I have not had anyv dreams in a long time, but I have in the past. Sometimes when you wake up from a bad dream they can seem so real, almost as if they really happen.Yes this was more interesting than science.