Our Dreams

Some times we see in dreams things that bear an obvious relationship to some either recent or distant part of our waking moments. Other times, we see things that (seemingly) bear not much resemblance or relationship to our conscious experiences. The intention here is to evaluate the nature of each of these kinds of relationships and possibly also the relationship between both kinds of relationships.

Now as a case study, we are aware it is often possible to experience an elaborate problem in our waking moments and find solutions or insight to it in a following dream; and is there a kind of relationship stronger than the one which tends to exist between a problem and its solution?

If we can agree that it is possible for a waking moment, so elaborate as to constitute a problem that we cannot easily solve while awake, to have such a strong relationship with a sleeping moment as to constitute one of the strongest kinds of relationships there are between any two entities, then we can conclude that it is not outside reason to say that any sort of dream could be at least somewhat related to an earlier experienced waking moment.

In view of this, we can see that it is likely that any sort of dream we have, however obscure, could have roots in various facets and levels of our waking experiences even down to the subconscious levels of these experiences and that things which we perceive in dreams are ultimately influenced by nothing more than related perceptions in our waking moments.

Given these considerations, it seems we can safely say that whatever we dream cannot be taken for granted as it could well be clearly related to an obscure part of our waking experience or be obscurely related to a clear part of it - with both the clear and obscure parts existing to varying degrees as the case may be.

A further consideration would be to question if our dreams, given how seemingly correlated they are with our waking moments, might have a subconscious that is similar to that of our waking moments. At this point it is easy to see that our dreams might not be subconscious at all but merely our conscious sleeping experience.