Dream Interpretation?

[Pint0 Xtreme]

Dammit, then why do I occasionally get nuclear apocalyptic dreams? Well, the last one was a fresh breather. Instead of witnessing a nuclear explosion in LA, I saw scores of missiles firing into the sky during the night.

[RedImperator]

I once heard an interesting theory that dreams are a holdover from before writing. Prehistoric hunter-gatherers had to commit vast amounts of information about their environment to memory in order to survive, too much to sit down and consciously analyze. So instead, your subconscious sorts it all out, and you dream the results. So a hunter would dream about, say, finding a herd of antelope crossing a certain valley, and the next day he'd go down and, lo and behold, a herd of antelope. He thought he'd dreamed about the future, but what really happened is that all the information he knew--antelope migrating patterns, the time of year, the quality of the vegetation in that particular valley versus all the others, activities of other predators of antelope--was processed subconsciously and he dreamed the right answer.

[Zero]

This could also explain prophetic dreams that religious texts speak of. Strange how such things might work. That's a very interesting idea, at the least.

[RogueIce]

That dream occured because my alarm clock was going off in real life and thus influenced my dream into being one with an alarm clock (because that's where the sound comes from) and I of course wanted to turn the alarm clock off. When I did it in the dream, it didn't affect the real alarm clock so I still heard the sound. Therefore, nothing happened in the dream, even though I made every effort to silence it.

I can attest to that, in a sense. Like I mentioned in the "dream about SDNet" thread, I will sometimes have these dreams that, aside from what else is happening, I have to take a mad pee. So I pee, and pee, and pee. No matter how many times I pee, I still have this overpowering urge to go! It won't stop.

This is because, when I wake up, I have to go to pee. So I still had to go, and no matter what I did in my dream my body still had to go. Sort of like that poor alarm clock.

At any rate, in a more general sense, I was told that you have all sorts of dreams during the night, but you just don't remember them when you wake up. The ones you do remember are the one you "interrupted" by waking up in the middle of it (which is why, at least for me, I never have a "complete" dream). Is there any truth to this?