Visions are truly a mystery to our world. Only certain people have the ability to have visions, it is often confused with dreams but visions are a whole different thing. It is full of wonders and unanswered questions and sometimes leaves a small trace of a magical presence. There are many mysteries to unravel and discoveries to analyze the meaning to. The adventure that the visions takes you on is yours, it has control of your mind and will take your mind into a wild roller coaster ride.
Visions are an astounding thing that is very difficult to understand the secrets behind them. There is a full history to it behind visions, many stories relating to it that happen in the world but also from the Bible. Visions actually do occur to some, but
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Dreams occur when the individual is completely drawn into sleep, but their mind is still in a waking state which pulls them into a dream (differencebetween.info/). While visions happen when they are fully awake, they all have a strong purpose unlike dreams that are normally random and queer. Dreams are a constant reoccurrence of a variety of images that could replay past events, connections to recent thoughts, people and so on (quora.com). God can use dreams to communicate and send messages to push the person to try to interpret and fully realize what it is about (patheos.com). Although, it is also said that dreams can be sent by the Devil just like nightmares (quora.com). The Devil can be manipulative and let others believe in something that is false. For example, Eliphaz from the Bible had a dream where he was deceived by the Devil, as he was posing as God leading Eliphaz thinking it was him (heritagebbc.com/). Visions on the other hand are all sent by God, holding lots of meaning, and for the individuals to commit and fulfill their …show more content…
Premonitions is the ability to foresee into the future, seeing shreds of future events while sleeping or awake (psychic-experiences.com). They handle the emotional realm of the person, giving them guidance by forewarning before the event actually occurs (ezinearticles.com). It is not entirely a vision, it sends out a warning usually being strikingly obvious, about future catastrophic occurrences. Precognitions also is the ability to foresee into the future, but only happens during sleep unlike premonitions that happen during night and day (psychic-experiences.com). It is associated with the emotional realm of the person like premonitions but, the warnings of the future event is more forcefully frequent and stronger (ezinearticles.com). The simple difference between the two is that one commonly happens during the day and the other at night (psychic-experiences.com). Comparing the two, precognitions are more in depth and gives the person somewhat of an idea, indicating there is knowledge in the vision. Premonitions are a lot less extreme, it sends out one or more warnings to give the person insight about the future (ezinearticles.com). Premonitions and precognitions are proved to be different, but the adventures it takes people on is all the
Sometimes having a vision is like having a daydream. In Black Elk Speaks, he sometimes has a yonder vision that pops up like a dream.
and visions one sees when they are in their last hours and even after they have passed
Oprah Winfrey once said, “The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” But, what actually is a dream and what do dreams really have to do with one’s everyday life? In essence, a dream is a series of mental images and emotions occurring during a slumber. Dreams can also deal with one’s personal aspirations, goals, ambitions, and even one’s emotions, such as love and hardship. However, dreams can also give rise to uneasy and terrible emotions; these dreams are essentially known as nightmares.
There are many facts that are unknown about dreams and their meanings. For centuries, philosophers and scientists have tried to understand the meaning of dreams. They have all been fascinated by the fact that the content of dreams may have meanings relating to one's life. Are dreams just thoughts in people's minds, or are dreams in fact representations of different areas in people's lives? Dreams represent many different areas of one's life in physical, emotional, and mental ways. Dreams can relay to people facts about their lives that they are not even aware of. There are also many ways that dreams can help cure different physical, emotional, and mental problems in one's life. This paper will discuss dreams and their meanings, and ways of interpreting a dream using such methods as hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis therapy that can help a person in physical, mental, and emotional ways. The first fact that will be discussed is what dreams are and how they work for people in allowing the person to discover more about himself. Dreams can be defined as "a conscious series of images that occur during sleep" (Collier's, vol. 8). Dreams are usually very vivid in color and imagery. They reveal to the dreamer different wishes, concerns, and worries that he or she has. Dreams usually reflect every part of who the dreamer is. The content of the person's dream is usually made up according to how old the dreamer is and how educated the he or she is (Collier's, vol. 8). Dreams are not planned out or thought up. The unconscious part of the mind brings out bits and pieces of information in the dreamer's mind and places them together. According to Encarta, dreams are almost always visual. Forty to fifty percent of dreams have some form of communication present in them and a very small percentage of dreams give the dreamer the ability to use his or her five senses (Encarta). Dreams allow one to take a closer look into his mind and himself in a quest for self-discovery. Dreams can be used to solve all different types of problems. In Sigmund Freud's book, The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud states: "As regards the dream, all the troubles of waking life are transferred by it to the sleeping state […]" (Freud 113). They relay things about a person that the person may not be able to see.
...es his "meditation". Before visions appear, there are flashes and disturbances in color, which are not explainable. The visions often follow a sequence from geometric figures to unfamiliar objects that vary with the individual.
During prescientific days, dreams were interpreted as ‘manifestations’ of a ‘higher power’. Since the introduction of psychology, dreams have had 4 distinct interpretations. The first interprets dreams as a “liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature”. The second interprets dreams as “accidental disturbances from ‘internal organs’. The third interprets dreams as a foretelling of the future. The last interpretation is Freud’s. He interprets dream as an expression of subconscious desires.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, dream is defined by a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring involuntarily in a person’s mind during certain stages of sleep. Dreams have fascinated humans since the beginning of time. The recorded history of dream interpretation dates back to 3000-4000 B.C. with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. They documented their dreams on clay tablets. People back then saw the dream world as an extension of reality, but that it was a more powerful realm. Furthermore, they believed that when they dream, their souls would leave their body during sleep and travel to the dream world.
...ry, dream lucidity appears to be a valid phenomena and one many people hope to achieve for themselves. Whatever your interest in the topic, you are sure to find an outlet for it in the plethora of internet resources available on the topic.
The way that each individual interprets, retrieves, and responds to the information in the world that surrounds you is known as perception. It is a personal way of creating opinions about others and ourselves in everyday life and being able to recognize it under various conditions. Each person’s perceptions are used as a kind of filter that every piece of information has to pass through before it determines the effect that it has or will have on the person from the stimulus. It is convincing to believe that we create multiple perceptions about different situations and objects each day. Perceptions reflect our opinions in many ways. The quality of a person’s perceptions is very important and can affect the response that is given through different situations. Perception is often deceived as reality. “Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings and action.” (Schermerhorn, et al.; p. 3). Perception can be influenced by a person’s personality, values, or experiences which, in turn, can play little role in reality. People make sense of the world that they perceive because the visual system makes practical explanations of the information that the eyes pick up.
According to Michael Swartz in his volume titled, The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism; he made an interesting claim regarding the genre of dream interpretation, based on the context of divination traditions. First of all, he proposes two basic types of divination traditions in general: We can also distinguish two basic types. Some diviners work through a fairly technical procedure using manuals
Everyone 's dreams are unique, therefore there are hundreds of different types of dreams and lucid dreams. To name a few, the most common are controllable dreams, awareness dreams, therapeutic dreams and the unproven Mutual Dreaming. Controllable lucid dreams are more commonly heard of from people who have had experience with lucidity several times before. This is because the art of lucid dreaming is not easy to master, especially not in one night. It takes practice, recording dreams, and especially hourly reality checks in the real world. Awareness Dreams are the most common. In this type of dream, the dreamer is only able to witness the events play out before them. They are still aware of the world around them, able to control all five of their senses but are only there for the ride. These types are usually induced by complete accident using the Dream Initiated Lucid Dream form. Therapeutic Lucidity is the event in which the dreamer is actively attempting to conquer fears, phobias, trauma and more. Throughout my study, I chose to partake in this type of Lucid dream to see if I was able to receive ease from several traumatic events in my past. (ENTER RESULTS FROM
interpretation abounds. However, there is a way to dream and not be at the mercy
The world we live in today is always changing, whether it be technology or the land. As these changes take place, society must adapt to them. Many things begin to change as a result of this and society beings to turn into something completely different. One of the most overlooked changes that takes place is that of the environment and landscape. The landscape is one of the most important parts of our society’s culture and has a great effect on how we live. It seems that nowadays, many individuals are taking advantage of the land and nothing appreciating it for every thing that it is worth. Its true that not everyone is going to look at the environment and landscape in the same way, however that is no excuse to disrespect it. Then again, a whole new argument can start from that, as different individuals are going to have different views on what disrespecting the land. Many positive things have come from taking advantage of the land, and also, there have been many negative things to come as a result of this. It all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure though, no matter what the case is, the land and environment we live in plays a huge part in each of our everyday lives.
The most common vision issues are the refractive errors, more commonly referred to as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia. Refractive errors occur when the shape of the eye prevents light from focusing directly on the retina. The length of the eyeball (either longer or shorter), changes in the shape of the cornea, or aging of the lens can cause refractive errors. Most people have one or more of these conditions. In these situations of refraction, the cornea and the lens bend (refract) incoming light rays so they focus precisely on the retina at the back of the eye (figure 2). Refraction is the bending of light as it passes through one object to another. Vision occurs when light rays are bent (refracted) as they pass through the cornea and the lens. The light is then focused on the retina, and then the retina converts the light-rays into messages that are sent through the optic nerve to the brain. The brain after that interpret these messages into the images we see.
All of us dream, several times at night. It is believed by some that we sleep in order that we may dream. Dreams can come true if somebody makes them true, as the saying goes, “A dream is just a dream, unless you make it come true”. Dreams provide us the actual picture of our thoughts. Dreams may tell us about any physical event which took place with us or which is going to happen with us. The dream is trying to inform the dreamer about his condition in any walk of life. Basically, we can dream about anything logical or illogical, fictious or non-fictious and reasonable or unreasonable.