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smoking

lately, i always dreamed that i was smoking and that my body was really aching for a cigarette... does this dream have to with me? i dont smoke, niether drink.. right now, i am really in the most deepest situation in my life, regarding with my lovelife...
and is it true that what you're dreaming is the oppposite of what will happen to you in reality?
hoping for your response..
thanks!

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Re: smoking

Hello Maan,
I wonder if you could fill out this dream more. Tell us more about what happens in the dream.
Usualy if dreams repeat it means that we are not getting the message.
While dreams may be tricly to interpret dreams do not lie - dreams may present things in an unusual way in oder to get the message across.
Dreams use symbols - for example, cigarettes are ignited, smoked and then the butt is disgarded ,,, does this fit for you ?
All the best
JC

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Re: Re: smoking

Maan,
As Justin stated, posting the a complete dream will provide better clues as to what smoking symbolizes in your dreams. Often the symbolism of smoking cigarettes depends on the attitude one has toward smoking. Since you do not smoke it may indicate that there is something in your life that you find disgusting or disagreeable, yet you are doing it anyway. You are engaged in something you don't normally do and it may threaten you.

Look at your personal life and see what may fit the above. What in your life do you feel you are doing that isn't something you normally would do. Cigarettes are an addition and if in your dream you are aching {the body}, the cigarettes probably symbolize something, or someone in your life. It could very well have to do with the relationship, your love life.

One other possibility from the pages of Freud. Anything that is placed into the mouth can be thought of as sexual. Since some people see this as disgusting, you may want to consider that aspect.
Gerard

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Re: Re: Re: smoking

Maan,
In response to your question, "is it true that what you're dreaming is the opposite of what will happen to you in reality?" No, that is not true. It doesn't necessarily means there could not be opposite conotations to the dream symbols but to generalize dreams as being opposite of what will happen in life is a wrong assumption. It is a wrong asumption to think dreams will predict what will happen in the future. They compensate what you already know {
perhaps unconsciuously but not consciously
} and if by deduction some event or experience is predicted in a dream it is because it is a normal occurrance that would happen. Go to this page for a better understanding of Precognitive Dreams.

Do not think of dreams as a source of predicting your future. Many dream dictionaries will use this premise {example: from Dream Central Dream Dictionary

Rage: If you dream that you see someone in a rage is a bad sign for your business endeavors or conditions, it also denotes a degree of unhappiness in your social life. If you are the person who flies in a rage denotes that your bad temper may cause unhappiness and harm to your friends. If you see a lover or a spouse in a rage then will you have much discord in your affairs of the heart.

The above are fixed assumptions of what the rage symbol means, and the first line is a prediction of what will happen in your life if rage is a symbol in your dream. If your waking life is centered on your business life then the meaning could apply but I doubt that it has much validity. NO dream symbol should ever be thought of as having a 'fixed' meaning. A symbol in one person's dream may have an entirely different meaning in another person's dream. It all depends on the individual life.

Dream symbols can have the opposite meaning in diffferent people's dreams. Jung recounts the dreams of a young man and an old man, both having pretty much identical dreams. The dream depicts the dreamer {both the old and young men} on a fox hunt with them riding their horse, chasing after the fox. When they come to a barrier that the horse must jumo, the young man successfully makes the jump where the old man's horse refuses to do so.
The interpretation by Jung is that the young man needs to be chasing after those things that fulfills his life, whereas the old man's dream is the opposite, he has already faced the chase and now is time to move on to another stage of life.
The old man's dream, while nearly identical to the young man's dream is in fact opposite in its message. The dream is about the individual and while many of the aspects of both dreams carry the same meaning, the final message is different acoording to the individual.

But don't confuse the dreams of different individuals as the same as what the individual dream message is trying to communicate. The dream is not trying to hide or disguise anything, it is merely presenting the dreamer with what is actually occuring in the dreamer's life at the time of the dream, especially the emotional aspects. The dream deals with the present and the past and any future events or experiences is from deductive reasoning and not a prediction mechanism of dreams.

While I am on the subject of Dream Central, I was at one time a regular contributor to its dream forum. While in whole it is a good place to seek answers to dream questions, its premise is flawed, as in the dictionary meaning I quoted above. Most dream theories are based on some type of interpretation of symbols and come close to what the symbols may represent. But unless the individual life is considered, placing all the fruit in one basket will lead you astray from the true meaning of the dream. I respect
DrDoc's
knowledge but it is flawed and based on personal assumptions that do not hold up to scientific scrutiny. Jung's philosophies are based on the science of the dream and is why we see more and more psychologists and professionals using his techniques in addressing dreams. If you look at my interpretations here at the forum, going back through all that are posted since I placed it on line in April 2001 {there have been 1258 posts}, you will see that my approach answers most dream quesitions satifactorily if not entirely. I am blessed with a good intuitive sense which undoubtly helps with seeing into the dream, but it is Jung's philosophies of the dream that provide the true insights to the dream world.

Another criticism of Dream Central is it has become so commerialised. If you go to Sleeps.com, the URL of Dream Central, you are confronted with a commerialised page selling tee shirts, astrology {DrDoc's orginal line of expertise}and a link to E-Harmony's match making site. The whole site is commerialised and even though I have an understanding of the costs involved in maintaining a website, I don't see the need to give so much space to commerialization. I hope someone will shoot me if I should ever do that to MDS.

What finally chased me away from contributing to Dream Central's forum was the personal attacks on Jung's philosophies by DrDoc and other regular Dream Central contribitors. If you can't respect the other person's reasoning then you either discuss the matter as mature adults or keep quite.
Gerard

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Re: smoking

Smoking could be something that you need to expel, you need to do the cleaning in some aspect of your life. You remember the most important part of your dream.
Marie

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Re: Re: smoking

Marie,
Excellent point. Those things that are opposite of what is good for us will appear in dreams. Discerning the symbols of an opposite can be difficult but when something such as smoking is within a dream and the dreamer does not in actuallity smoke, then the opposite is a metaphor for something else that needs to be 'cleansed'.

Gerard

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Re: Re: Re: smoking

hi guys! thanks a lot for your response..
well, i just realized that Gerard is right..
I think it has something to do with my relationship..
there are really LOTS of things that i am doing, that in fact, i dont normally do, or i really want to do..
thanks for your help...
i really appreciate it!
bye!


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