ONEIROLOGY (Study of Dreams)

We seem to interpret everything that is not properly understood and which have some kind of patterns; the lines in palms, the forehead, the tipping of cards, movement of planets, constellations, placement of numbers etc and also dreams. This is because of our innate fascination to have a glimpse of unfolding future. The random occurrence of events in nature and not the most efficient way of rewarding the best gives hope to everyone to obtain best out of life and the world.

Working of dreams are not well understood so far but we may know more about them with passage of time, however for the time being occult interprets them to know future while rational minds interprets it just a play of mind. Do animals dream? They do, even without the advantage of language they dream about fights for territory and of being chased by predators etc. We have much more elaborate dreams, some simple some very complex mostly playing out events from life but sometimes bizarre scenes play out in our dreams having no connection with conscious mind. We have no control over our dreams; when, how and what will be played out in our dreams. We remember nightmares because intensity of such dreams seeps out of the subconscious to conscious and wakes us up abruptly. Do dreams have message?

Who knows! They could be giving signs of failing health or mental fatigue or just telling us to slow down in life.

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