how to distinguish dreams and reality?

[pumashared]

this question has always boggled my mind. quite a long read if you guys dont mind but i think my story will help you understand my question better.

I have had about 4 sleep paralysis nights in my life. The first one i encountered was probably the scariest out of all the other ones. of course i cant tell weather or not i was dreaming or this actually occurred. sleeping on the floor(i like to sleep on the floor rather than my bed) and someone came up stairs. hooded figure whos face i could not see. he sat right by my bed and started speaking to me in some kind of language. i did not understand what he was saying but to me it seamed like directions or words of advice. he did not seam like he wanted to hurt me.

I was super scared so i tried to move and i could not. this got me more scared because i had never experienced anything like this before. realizing i could not move i just decided just to shut my mind and go back to sleep. of course eventually i went to sleep.
the other sleep paralysis ones are much nicer. nothing crazy happened except the fact that i knew i had sleep paralysis and just slept it off.

of course my question what did my dream/reality mean and as how does one distinguish if this in fact reality?

thanks sorry for long read

[Azt]

Perhaps with this ....

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[STR]

this question has always boggled my mind. quite a long read if you guys dont mind but i think my story will help you understand my question better.

I have had about 4 sleep paralysis nights in my life. The first one i encountered was probably the scariest out of all the other ones. of course i cant tell weather or not i was dreaming or this actually occurred. sleeping on the floor(i like to sleep on the floor rather than my bed) and someone came up stairs. hooded figure whos face i could not see. he sat right by my bed and started speaking to me in some kind of language. i did not understand what he was saying but to me it seamed like directions or words of advice. he did not seam like he wanted to hurt me.

I was super scared so i tried to move and i could not. this got me more scared because i had never experienced anything like this before. realizing i could not move i just decided just to shut my mind and go back to sleep. of course eventually i went to sleep.
the other sleep paralysis ones are much nicer. nothing crazy happened except the fact that i knew i had sleep paralysis and just slept it off.

of course my question what did my dream/reality mean and as how does one distinguish if this in fact reality?

thanks sorry for long read


I will tell you a practical way to determine this for yourself in the future for any dream or event that you question as dream or ....something else.

What I suggest is to look at the event as dream first. Examine it as a dream. Interpret it. If it coincides with events current in your life then it is a dream event which usually teaches us so we can learn and grow to better navigate life's course. That is if we use it for the tool it provides us of course.

For example looking at this dream let us examine it now as a dream and see in your mind a bit to maybe get an idea of what was going on in your life at the time of this dream. If I were asked to give the meaning of this dream this is what I would tell you.

First remember dream is all about you. It is all reflections of you, aspects of yourself, your mask, persona etc etc. The stairs are the first thing we come to. The figure coming up the stairs tells us it is a higher learning dream, rising up or an aspect of you you reject or find worthy of hiding. An aspect of yourself is hiding, protecting itself apparently or staying 'dark and hooded' veiled is coming forth here presenting itself to you informing you of perhaps deceit or a need to conceal true feelings. You are wearing a protective mask hiding your true feelings from someone or yourself. You are learning (stairs) of a wool pulled over your eyes event in your life or fear such an event, perhaps relationship oriented and I say that because communication, which the confused language is about, indicates communicating, or I should say your lack of being able to communicate your true feelings to 'someone' as it takes to two express language.

So quite simply put you dreamt this because current events in your life seem to say based on the dream symbols your partner is in question in your mind, regarding true feelings, communications of said feelings and how to properly express what you yourself do not understand yet, and even if you could express it you are held back by the 'fear' of being used once more. You know with having the wool pulled over your eyes again. The hood expresses communication from the sub conscious that you do not understand yet but the hood itself reveals to me your inner fear to hide behind the mask to more than likely protect your heart. This is my guess. Now if this dream symbol interpretation does not fit events of your life at the time keep in mind other influences of the day, movies, arguments, life basically add to this all to confuse an overall message theme. Some aspects of the dreams we have are not as important as others but in this dream event it appears a communication or expression issue of something complex involving deeper communications between two people broke down causing or were in question long enough to bring this out of your subconcsious

[pumashared]

this question has always boggled my mind. quite a long read if you guys dont mind but i think my story will help you understand my question better.

I have had about 4 sleep paralysis nights in my life. The first one i encountered was probably the scariest out of all the other ones. of course i cant tell weather or not i was dreaming or this actually occurred. sleeping on the floor(i like to sleep on the floor rather than my bed) and someone came up stairs. hooded figure whos face i could not see. he sat right by my bed and started speaking to me in some kind of language. i did not understand what he was saying but to me it seamed like directions or words of advice. he did not seam like he wanted to hurt me.

I was super scared so i tried to move and i could not. this got me more scared because i had never experienced anything like this before. realizing i could not move i just decided just to shut my mind and go back to sleep. of course eventually i went to sleep.
the other sleep paralysis ones are much nicer. nothing crazy happened except the fact that i knew i had sleep paralysis and just slept it off.

of course my question what did my dream/reality mean and as how does one distinguish if this in fact reality?

thanks sorry for long read


I will tell you a practical way to determine this for yourself in the future for any dream or event that you question as dream or ....something else.

What I suggest is to look at the event as dream first. Examine it as a dream. Interpret it. If it coincides with events current in your life then it is a dream event which usually teaches us so we can learn and grow to better navigate life's course. That is if we use it for the tool it provides us of course.

For example looking at this dream let us examine it now as a dream and see in your mind a bit to maybe get an idea of what was going on in your life at the time of this dream. If I were asked to give the meaning of this dream this is what I would tell you.

First remember dream is all about you. It is all reflections of you, aspects of yourself, your mask, persona etc etc. The stairs are the first thing we come to. The figure coming up the stairs tells us it is a higher learning dream, rising up or an aspect of you you reject or find worthy of hiding. An aspect of yourself is hiding, protecting itself apparently or staying 'dark and hooded' veiled is coming forth here presenting itself to you informing you of perhaps deceit or a need to conceal true feelings. You are wearing a protective mask hiding your true feelings from someone or yourself. You are learning (stairs) of a wool pulled over your eyes event in your life or fear such an event, perhaps relationship oriented and I say that because communication, which the confused language is about, indicates communicating, or I should say your lack of being able to communicate your true feelings to 'someone' as it takes to two express language.

So quite simply put you dreamt this because current events in your life seem to say based on the dream symbols your partner is in question in your mind, regarding true feelings, communications of said feelings and how to properly express what you yourself do not understand yet, and even if you could express it you are held back by the 'fear' of being used once more. You know with having the wool pulled over your eyes again. The hood expresses communication from the sub conscious that you do not understand yet but the hood itself reveals to me your inner fear to hide behind the mask to more than likely protect your heart. This is my guess. Now if this dream symbol interpretation does not fit events of your life at the time keep in mind other influences of the day, movies, arguments, life basically add to this all to confuse an overall message theme. Some aspects of the dreams we have are not as important as others but in this dream event it appears a communication or expression issue of something complex involving deeper communications between two people broke down causing or were in question long enough to bring this out of your subconcsious

This has to be one of the best dream analysis i have had. thanks so much for your incite. To be honest im a little dissapointed that this hooded figure was perhaps some kind of entity giving me instructions to do a certin job or something but because i had not reached a level in mind brightness i could not understand him.

But after reading this it makes sense. to be honest im 24 Male and i have always been a loner and an outsider. I never had a girlfriend but once got very close to a girl and she really hurt me emotionally and it left me in such a bad state that i contemplated suicide. of course suicide sounds dumb to me now but when i was young i really though that was the best answer to stop the hurt feelings. Even tho it has been years after that incident and i have had many opportunities with other girls i have always shut them down fearing that i will develop feelings for them and will lead me to that path.
Also I always have been an outsider and not normal(im sure many avalonians feel the same way) although im a kind individual i feel like there is always an anger building inside of me ( from being sexually hurt when i was young by my neighbors). and although i have forgotten so much of the past sometimes those memories really ruin your day. either way this is why i really decided to join this website. to learn to control my anger and not feel helpless and meditation.

again thanks for listening to me and examining my dream.

[STR]

this question has always boggled my mind. quite a long read if you guys dont mind but i think my story will help you understand my question better.

I have had about 4 sleep paralysis nights in my life. The first one i encountered was probably the scariest out of all the other ones. of course i cant tell weather or not i was dreaming or this actually occurred. sleeping on the floor(i like to sleep on the floor rather than my bed) and someone came up stairs. hooded figure whos face i could not see. he sat right by my bed and started speaking to me in some kind of language. i did not understand what he was saying but to me it seamed like directions or words of advice. he did not seam like he wanted to hurt me.

I was super scared so i tried to move and i could not. this got me more scared because i had never experienced anything like this before. realizing i could not move i just decided just to shut my mind and go back to sleep. of course eventually i went to sleep.
the other sleep paralysis ones are much nicer. nothing crazy happened except the fact that i knew i had sleep paralysis and just slept it off.

of course my question what did my dream/reality mean and as how does one distinguish if this in fact reality?

thanks sorry for long read


I will tell you a practical way to determine this for yourself in the future for any dream or event that you question as dream or ....something else.

What I suggest is to look at the event as dream first. Examine it as a dream. Interpret it. If it coincides with events current in your life then it is a dream event which usually teaches us so we can learn and grow to better navigate life's course. That is if we use it for the tool it provides us of course.

For example looking at this dream let us examine it now as a dream and see in your mind a bit to maybe get an idea of what was going on in your life at the time of this dream. If I were asked to give the meaning of this dream this is what I would tell you.

First remember dream is all about you. It is all reflections of you, aspects of yourself, your mask, persona etc etc. The stairs are the first thing we come to. The figure coming up the stairs tells us it is a higher learning dream, rising up or an aspect of you you reject or find worthy of hiding. An aspect of yourself is hiding, protecting itself apparently or staying 'dark and hooded' veiled is coming forth here presenting itself to you informing you of perhaps deceit or a need to conceal true feelings. You are wearing a protective mask hiding your true feelings from someone or yourself. You are learning (stairs) of a wool pulled over your eyes event in your life or fear such an event, perhaps relationship oriented and I say that because communication, which the confused language is about, indicates communicating, or I should say your lack of being able to communicate your true feelings to 'someone' as it takes to two express language.

So quite simply put you dreamt this because current events in your life seem to say based on the dream symbols your partner is in question in your mind, regarding true feelings, communications of said feelings and how to properly express what you yourself do not understand yet, and even if you could express it you are held back by the 'fear' of being used once more. You know with having the wool pulled over your eyes again. The hood expresses communication from the sub conscious that you do not understand yet but the hood itself reveals to me your inner fear to hide behind the mask to more than likely protect your heart. This is my guess. Now if this dream symbol interpretation does not fit events of your life at the time keep in mind other influences of the day, movies, arguments, life basically add to this all to confuse an overall message theme. Some aspects of the dreams we have are not as important as others but in this dream event it appears a communication or expression issue of something complex involving deeper communications between two people broke down causing or were in question long enough to bring this out of your subconcsious

This has to be one of the best dream analysis i have had. thanks so much for your incite. To be honest im a little dissapointed that this hooded figure was perhaps some kind of entity giving me instructions to do a certin job or something but because i had not reached a level in mind brightness i could not understand him.

But after reading this it makes sense. to be honest im 24 Male and i have always been a loner and an outsider. I never had a girlfriend but once got very close to a girl and she really hurt me emotionally and it left me in such a bad state that i contemplated suicide. of course suicide sounds dumb to me now but when i was young i really though that was the best answer to stop the hurt feelings. Even tho it has been years after that incident and i have had many opportunities with other girls i have always shut them down fearing that i will develop feelings for them and will lead me to that path.
Also I always have been an outsider and not normal(im sure many avalonians feel the same way) although im a kind individual i feel like there is always an anger building inside of me ( from being sexually hurt when i was young by my neighbors). and although i have forgotten so much of the past sometimes those memories really ruin your day. either way this is why i really decided to join this website. to learn to control my anger and not feel helpless and meditation.

again thanks for listening to me and examining my dream.

Many like us that go inside ourselves will occasion the vent of steam built up by the way we digest and tho perhaps not the best way the advise would be to become aware of how you are processing and slowly, over time baby step your way into a new conditioning to better navigate relationships. May I suggest a beginning acting class or creative writing class to perhaps give you a venue to let that energy escape? The idea of security or I should say insecurity strikes me as I read your reply. Insecurity on the surface is thought to be a weakness but many of the most successful people in the world are very insecure. It is their insecurity that drives them you see? Most of the Hollywood big names are such people. You'd think they would be so together, successful and popular and all but it is not the case. Under the faux persona they are mostly a wreck. Trust me I read their dreams for them all the time. Wrecks for the most part. Lost and always struggling so you are not alone and $ or success have little to do with the obstacles thrown up at us in life.

These obstacles are yours there for you to work through to become the better more masterful life sailor. The best sailors in the world have navigated the most stormy seas they did not get there by sailing calm waters so ride the waves and more, get into it! You are here for a short while only. Remember success, failure, these are events. Not you, not anyone. These happen to all of us. Its how we deal with them that counts. When a storm comes up navigate it best you can and when and if it comes again if you do things right it won't be any challenge the next time this same or similar storm comes up again on your path. This is how I see life. I try to look at the obstacles as the areas of my life that my higher being wants me to work through. That rough patch friction relationship thorn in your side that cycles over and over or that same repeating pattern for relationships cropping up again and again repeating the same cycle is telling you you have not learned the lesson so you change the way you perceive the lesson. Once done, the obstacle is no longer so much an obstacle but your friend, there to teach so you learn and grow to become the best most masterful life sailor that is. This so when the time comes you are ready to move on to that place where these navigation skills learned will certainly be necessary.

[pumashared]

amazing answer. thanks .