Will we ever... decode dreams?

[Evil Eye]

You wake up. You were dreaming, but in the haze of morning, you cannot quite remember what ran through your head. Childhood acquaintances were there. You were in Australia. One guy was a pirate. There was something about a cow. Perhaps. We have all had similarly murky memories of an earlier night’s dream. But what if you could actually record your dreaming brain? Could you reconstruct the stories that play out in your head?



It appears to be plausible. Science fiction is full of machines that can peer inside our heads and decipher our thoughts, and science, it seems, is catching up. The news abounds with tales of scientists who have created “mind-reading” machines that can convert our thoughts into images, most of these stories including a throwaway line about one day recording our dreams. But visualising our everyday thoughts is no easy matter, and dream-reading is more difficult still.

Full article: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120208-will-we-ever-decode-dreams





Would you like to be able to record your dreams for later playback?

 

[Evil Eye]

You could probably make money selling something like that

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Dreams are metaphorical. For example if you are under water it might a sign that you are under pressure; you are under a lot of stress in life.



If you dream of flying, maybe you feel trapped or grounded in your life and feel a need to escape?



If you dream of someone dying or being hurt, it is a metaphor that means you want to cut off a relationship from that person.



To be chased means that you are running away from an unresolved problem in your dreams that you are not able to escape in real life. Often your pursuer is faceless because there is no person chasing you. you are running from your own unresolved anxiety.



Rooms are metaphors to rooms of your personality, to explore those rooms means you want to explore your feelings. Dreaming is supposed to be therapeutic this way.





To OP question:

I have some dreams that I would like to record and explore more deeply.

I can decode my own dreams but I need to remember them first.

 

[DrLeftover]

Lucid Dreaming (you are aware you are dreaming and are able to exercise some control over the events) is a lot of fun, and can be most memorable.



As for 'meaning'... ... your dream 'means' you were in deep, or REM, sleep.