People appearing in dreams

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Hi! I've noticed that generally when I have dreams, I find virtually NO people (or events) which take place after high school. That was 15 years ago. One of the theories I have is that people represent concepts, and once a concept has a person representing it, it doesn't need another.

Another possibility is I saw these people (and interacted with them) much more than anyone else since (since I was in school with 30 people in my class in both elementary and high school).

Are other people like this, too?

Thanks in advance,

ACG

Interesting theory.

Doesn't seem to apply to me, then again I've gone through several phases since I left high school.

Hmm. I usually dont dream about situations that occur IRL until after they have passed into ... well, the past.

This is worth thinking about more.

Alas it is rare for me to remember my dreams these days.

I frequently have people in my dreams from all times of my life.

But I never see faces. They're always a blur. I recognize the person by a "feeling".

It's exceedingly rare for me ever to have a dream. When I do happen to have a dream and people are in it, the people are usually significant in current events unfolding in my life, which is pretty rare.

I dreamt about wrong planet last night
you were all your avatars

perhaps people in dreams are avatars representing ideas

or perhaps you've suppressed your subconcious since leaving school
having to deal with the realities outside
pehaps you felt safer at school and more in touch with yourself

Im only guessing, random thoughts

I was just recently discussing a similar phenomenon with another member of this board. In my dreams, there are frequent encounters with children I attended grammar school with. There are others from middle and high school as well, but not as often. I’m not just talking about friends, but people that I barely knew. This is a recurring thing that has been going on as long as I remember.

I rarely do any dream interpretation, but have recently tried understanding these dreams. The only thing I could come up with is that those people represent an era in my life when I had a stable home, where I actually felt “at home.” Ever since I moved away from my boyhood home in the town I grew up in, I have never felt the feeling of “home.” The people from my past aren’t populating my dreams because they are important to me themselves, but only because they represent era in my life when I had some security. As an adult, I have been unable to create a new home for myself and home is an essential thing that is almost entirely missing from my life.

My dream characters aren’t limited only to people from the distant past. I do dream of people from all periods of my life. The people from my distant past though, show up in my dreams on a very consistent basis.

I was a smiley face?

(oh my god all my friends are jpegs
perhaps I need to get some fresh air)

I think the safe era theory is right
I've never been settled in adult life
I've moved 50 or 100 times (I can't even remember)
I really want to feel safe again
I wish things could just stay the same sometimes

Any other drifters out there?
Do your dreams dwell on better times?

In dreams, faces are always slightly distorted, or I just don't see them, strange, but it's the only way I can explain it. Dreams are just that, dreams.

Weird, I was going to post a thread like this recently but hesitated due to all the other active dream threads. I have the same experience. Most of my dreams involved people from high school (5 years ago for me). People I haven't seen since and they're exaggerations of what they were back then. Can't really say why it happens though. It stumps me.

I've noticed that a lot of my dreams involve people and events from now, but they often take place or end up in the house I grew up in. I haven't lived there in 6 years.

A few years ago after graduating high school, I had to decide where to go to college-- my choices were to either go to a small university near my family, go to a larger university 150 miles away where several of my friends were going, or go somewhere completely different.

In the midst of all that, I had a dream that I was driving down a city street on an icy road. I saw a bunch of old friends on the sidewalk, and I wanted to stop and talk with them. But when I hit the brakes, I ended up sliding on the ice and spinning out into this huge intersection. It was kind of like a roundabout, with about 10 streets converging into a big circle full of cars going every which way. I tried to turn around to go back and see my friends, but I had become disoriented from spinning out and couldn't figure out which street I had come from.

My first thought upon waking up was "Damn, my brain made a perfect metaphor for what I'm going through, and even came up with all kinds of cool symbolism. WHY CAN'T I THINK THAT CREATIVELY WHEN I'M AWAKE?!?" :p

So I was a Nazgûl (Ring Wraith) with a Christmas hat? I don't think I've ever really dreamt about WP or the people here... yet.

I think dreams are the way the brain renews its energy. It's likely that during sleep strong neuronal circuits are strengthened and weak neuronal circuits are weakened even more; do you ever wonder why you frequently dream of things from your day (i.e., the stronger circuits)? During REM Sleep, the Pons "seems" to fire randomly, possibly triggering dreams. But the mechanism as to which neurons are activated is unknown atm.

My thought on this is that stronger neuronal circuits are targeted by these firings and strengthened. I kinda wonder if REM Sleep isn't the neuronal strengthening portion of the sleep cycle and then Deep Sleep is the weakening of the lesser circuits. (Since upholding neuronal connections takes a great deal of energy; therefore, some circuits must be sacrificed.)

I'll be taking the Psychology of Sleep next semester. I should think it will be highly fascinating.

Sometimes, I have imagined that some of my acquaintances were interacting with Bob Barker.

My oddity with dreams is that I never see myself in them or anything really related to me in them. It's very strange. Yet to figure it out. It's like just another movie to watch in my dreams. Like watching someone else's life and all in them but not mine.

i don't usually remember dreams but have recently started having vivid sci-fi dreams the only thing that annoys me is if i wake before they finish. but i never see myself or anyone i know in my dreams.