Alcohol can have a significant impact on sleep and sleeping patterns. Under the influence of alcohol, the quantity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep decreases and Stage 4 sleep increases,...

As you age, your sleep patterns change; so too will the time you spend dreaming and the subjects of your dreams. By their mid-forties, many people begin to go to...

Not being aware, avoidance of feeling or looking at something, surrender of waking self. Idioms: lose sleep over, sleep around; put it to sleep; sleep in; sleeping panner; sleep like...

If you dream that you are driving a vehicle it is a sign that you should be careful to take no chances with your money, such as gambling, in the...

Adaptive theory speculates that species-wide sleep patterns developed as a way of adapting to the environment. Grazing animals, for example, sleep relatively few hours a day in short bursts. According...

Sewing, embroidery, or construction patterns in a dream are a suggestion from your subconscious mind to refrain from straying into unknown paths.For a dream featuring changing patterns see, Kaleidoscope, Colors,...

To dream you sleep or slumber, is evil to all except those who are in doubt or expectation of some danger, for this delivers them from pain and care. To...

(1) A car in a dream usually represents yourself and, in particular, your effectiveness in controlling your life, attaining your goals, etc.If you are driving the car, this may symbolize...

Sleep patterns vary markedly across different age groups, with people sleeping progressively less soundly in later life. Stage 4, or deep sleep, in particular, practically disappears among the elderly. Studies...

Future Happiness.How do you feel being alone? Have your negative patterns been repatterened to perfection? Are your patterns no longer able to haunt you? Could this be a good time...

What are the colors and condition of the apparel? This is another indication of patterns in your life now acting out. These are the patterns you clothe yourself in for...

During experiments to monitor the brain activ­ity of animals and humans while asleep, it was noted that the brain seemed to move through a series of levels of activity. In...

The sense of guiding, of being in control, of being at the helm. Vehicles such as cars often represent the physical body, so what happens to us in driving dreams...

To dream that you are taking driving lessons, suggests that you are lacking self-confidence and are having anxieties about your abilities.The dream may also reflect a desire to change your...

The observation of animal sleep patterns has long been of interest, dating as far back as 44 B.C.E., when the Roman natural philosopher Lucretius described “the twitching movements of dogs...

Most people who have kept a dog have witnessed it bark while it is obviously dreaming. Calling out during a disturbing or active dream is common to humans also. Some...

Material aspects: Physical abuse can give rise to nightmares and other terror dreams, further depleting our resources due to both broken sleep patterns and the over stimulation of the fright,...

In dreams we are able to appreciate the beauty of basic patterns. In a kaleidoscope, any arbitrary pattern of objects shows up as a beautiful symmetrical pattern because of the...

Animals exhibit a wide range of sleep patterns. While lions may slumber for two to three days at a time, some antelope sleep for only one hour a day. Dolphins...

To dream of taking a driving test suggests that you may be feeling pressure to be perfect from friends or family. You might also doubt your own ability to “steer”...

Nine is the number of completion of patterns and karma. It may mark the finish of a cycle, perhaps in business or in a relationship, or commcnt on the termination...

It seems that they do, although we can’t know for sure. All we can measure is whether or not they have REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is more or...

Oswald (as related in his book Sleep) observed active rocking in some children and adults during sleep. These rocking movements were very powerful, occur­ring at a rate of one per...

By the time a boy or girl reaches puberty, their sleep patterns and dreaming closely match those of an adult. Just like an adult, they spend about twenty-five per cent...

If one sees himself turning in his sleep and putting his face down, or resting on his stomach in a dream, it means that he will turn away from his...

It is very common for shapes and patterns of all sorts to appear in your dreams.You may not realize how often shapes and patterns appear in your dreams but if...

Dr Ernest Hartmann carried out studies in connection with people who have stable sleep pat­terns. His aim was to define whether waking events influ­enced people’s need for sleep.For instance, a...

Sleepwalking or moving is an attempt to put a dream into action. Most likely you have grown out of the habit, if you ever had it, but if an occasion...

There may be a physical cause for dreams in which you find yourself unable to move or sense anything; it is called sleep paralysis. During REM sleep when dreams are...

One of the most frequently occurring symbols of modern times. It points to the transformation into something new. Individual means of transportation, status symbol, motorized energy—it is also a sexual...

(See Sleep, Turning in one’s sleep)

Fumbling with a dress pattern may remark on difficulties with constructing a new attitude to wear. It may mention that you are looking at patterns of behavior or modeling or...

As the place where you rest, sleep, and make love, the bed may point to concerns and feelings about resting or sexual intimacy. Having numerous people in bed with you...

The road you are traveling. Notice any patterns stamped on the highway, they could be speaking of your internal patterns. 

While we sleep, our brain constantly remains active, passing through different phases or steps. Sleepiness This first step occurs just before we fall asleep, as we transition from wakefulness into...

1. An empty—or full—wagon reflects one’s life situation.2. Driving a wagon up a hill indicates a difficult situation is being contended with.3. Driving a wagon down a hill indi­cates a...

In a dream, a driving belt means begetting a son or going on ajourney.

(Sleep) To doze or fall forward on one’s face in a sleep in a dream means going astray.

1. The one in control of ministry or marriage, or l business;2. If you are in the passenger seat and someone unknown is driving, it means God is driving3. The...

Night terrors are not nightmares. In fact they are not even dreams. Also known as sleep terrors, night terrors occur during non-REM sleep, not during REM sleep when the majority...

Talking whilst asleep is a relatively common sleep disorder. The subject matter being talked about tends to be harmless. It may also make no sense at all. At other times,...

Spiritually, dancing has always been taken to represent the rhythm of life.The patterns created are reputed to mirror the patterns of creativity.If space and time are part of one continuum,...

If you dreamed that you or others drove a vehicle while drunk, this suggests that you are acting careless and being foolish. You are losing control of your life and...

Going fast (such as driving fast) can represent: Progressing quickly or easily somehow in your life (or a desire to do so).Wanting to move faster through life or a particular...

Material aspects: When we dream of the deep we are usually considering past family influences of which we may not be consciously aware. Patterns of behaviour are often repeated in...

To see a go-kart in your dream, symbolizes your hard driving attitude and your need to win.If you dream of driving the go-kart, you may be jeopardizing your health with...

REM sleep is recognized by tiny twitches of facial muscles and slight movements of the hands. Blood pressure rises, breathing and heartbeat become faster, eyes dart rapidly around the eyelids...

To see a race car in your dream, symbolizes your hard driving attitude and your need to win in any competitive situation.If you are driving the race car, your fast-paced...

Rights and privileges; things that we can and cannot do legally or morally. So, the questions here pertain to what type of license is pictured, and what’s happening with the...

We typically spend more than two hours each night dreaming but there is much that scientists do not know about how or why we dream.Freud, who greatly influenced the field...

Dreams of a mirror suggest -analysis, awareness, -consciousness, and a preoccupation with how others see you. This dream is a reality check about your public image, a lucid moment filled...

In 1937 through the use of the electroencephalograph (EEG) measuring tiny electrical brain impulses, Loomis and his associates discovered that the form of brainwaves changes with the onset of sleep.The...

Any flying insect relates to the world of thoughts and the intellect. As a pest, the mosquito connects to patterns of thought that can be both annoying and ultimately harmful....

I have found characters in my dreams relating directly to those I know and associate either from the past, present or future.Sometimes a character is showing me why someone else...

Very common with some people, especially during adolescence or times of stress. Sometimes accompa­nied by hallucinations. Sleep walking is normal as an occa­sional event in children.If the child is agitated,...

If you dream of a tunnel, then you are exploring and moving through the deeper regions of your psyche, bringing awareness to your unconscious thought patterns, beliefs, and patterns..If you...

To dream of many small tacks show many small worries and aggravations from others. Driving a tack shows you will overcome adversaries.To mash your finger while driving a tack shows...

The Balm for Weary Minds "Sleep is the balm for hurt minds, nature’s great second course." - William Shakespeare Sleep is an absolute necessity for our physical, mental, and emotional...

Driving a herd of camels or becoming the owner of such a herd means he will become the leader of a people.

When spiritually we attempt to reconcile two energies – the spiritual and the physical, or the active and the passive – we may experience that union in dreams in the...

Environment you are residing in.The structure the spirit is trapped in or resides in harmoniously. Particular rooms represent particular patterns controlling or playing out in the environment. Bedroom – rest,...

The valet is the intermediary between driving and a particular destination.If driving connects to your movement through your life and a destination is the consciousness of something to be expressed,...

If you dream of riding in a vehicle and someone else is driving, you will soon take a business trip at your bosses convenience.If you are riding in a vehicle...

(see also Feelings)Emotions in dreams are not symbolic; they are just themselves. However, you need to be aware that emotions come from the unconscious, from what Jung calls ‘the Shadow5...

E. and Kleitman, N. Aserinsky, while working under Kleitman in a sleep study laboratory, was the first to observe the rapid eye movements (REM) now known to occur dunng dreaming....