datamining your dreams

Do dreams have meaning?

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What was the last or strangest dream you had? Describe it as vividly as possible. I'll start.

I was being spoken to by someone, who was sitting across an old table from me. They were a cloaked figure, but they didn't seem wholly malevolent. Instead, they were warning me. The room was dusty, and there was nothing in it but myself, the figure, and a lantern that was casting little rays around the room.

They grabbed my hand, and began sliding tiny rubber bands over my fingers.

They told me to 'count my sins like (whickets? Whippets? Crickets? Something sounding sort of like this.)', and cast them away.

I almost immediately awoke after this.
 
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This was the most memorable.

I was in some high place. I looked out and saw a vast panorama full of hills. Somehow, I knew it was where I lived at the time, even though it looked nothing like it. I was in some kind of court yard. I had some companion with me but never saw them. There was a small window as if to a basement suite in the home that the courtyard belonged to. My companion and I decided to enter into it. People were home. They did not want me there but were not unkindly. They took me out. I never saw them, but I sensed their will. I don't remember being in the home. As they guided me out, they led me past a gate of metal bars. Behind the gate was a beast with many faces, but each face was mine. They were angry and clearly destructive. As we walked away from it, I woke.
 
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YE24 said:
This was the most memorable.

I was in some high place. I looked out and saw a vast panorama full of hills. Somehow, I knew it was where I lived at the time, even though it looked nothing like it. I was in some kind of court yard. I had some companion with me but never saw them. There was a small window as if to a basement suite in the home that the courtyard belonged to. My companion and I decided to enter into it. People were home. They did not want me there but were not unkindly. They took me out. I never saw them, but I sensed their will. I don't remember being in the home. As they guided me out, they led me past a gate of metal bars. Behind the gate was a beast with many faces, but each face was mine. They were angry and clearly destructive. As we walked away from it, I woke.
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So, you and a faceless companion are surveying a wide region of hills, beyond a courtyard that you're sat in, outside some kind of large building. You enter in through a basement window, but find yourself unwelcome, but taken out in a non-hostile manner, by a group of people who were already inside- and took you out of the bounds of the property, well, which seems to be guarded by a beast of many of your own faces, with an angry nature.

If you can think of the people who are there, maybe there is more information to it-

But if I were to take a stab at this, I think it's a bit like this.

You and some mental companion have delved too far within your own mind- thus the angry, many-faced creature guarding the gates. By some fluke of your own psyche, you managed to reach a forbidden sector of your mind- and whatever was there was hidden away for a reason. You were forced to retreat from this, in a sense- you got very close to learning something about yourself that your inner self- like, a 'subconscious' did not want you becoming conscious to, and so cast you out of the garden.
That said, there is a strangely biblical tone to your dream. Two companions cast out of a garden, guarded by a monstrous being, by a generally kind-natured group/individual.
 
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You insist on interpreting it, so this is my reading: The beast was a warning for a choice I would go on to make that caused serious damage in my life. The fact that the identities of the others involved were never clear was, I think, part of the point. Exploration would lead me to a place I shouldn't be, where I faced dangers I didn't apprehend. The focus was on the danger to myself that I myself was posing.

I expect something similar from yours, and will take such a liberty as you took with mine. The "casting sins away" is very plainly religious. You don't know what the word was because you're not at the spiritual level where you can know. I think mine was similar, for the details I couldn't discern. The bands are representative of the binding and constraint of sin. He was attempting to make you aware of it. The Christian response to yours is to place your trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins. That's how they're cast away in the Christian ideology. Not sure of your background.

When you say the lantern was casting little rays, can you describe that more? That's plainly a feature that deserves more. Perhaps there's no more to speak of.
 
Only women talk about their dreams.

Although while I mostly don't even pay attention to or remember mine anymore, as the world's gotten weirder I'll admit that the frequency of dreams where I die have increased a fair bit (or rather I don't die, something has happened where it'll happen any moment, like I got shot in chest or a bomb is falling overhead and I've got a split second to come to terms with it).
Not to the point of being common, but they're somewhat upsetting when they happen.

I'm not sure if that's a common phenomenon or not. Who knows, maybe a little bit of memento mori is healthy.
 
for ages and ages I've barely remembered anything of my dreams, usually what I recall was just me standing around in relatively bland places doing not much and sorta wandering around, but last couple of months it's been a lot more of the "random famous and/or important things and places and activities etc" like normal people describe
I'm not sure what this change means
 
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