About Dreams

[DarkWolf]

I'm going to whine and rant, so if you are easily offended, you were warned.

Can you please slow down with the stupid "I dreamt I was a <insert creature> so I'm a were<whatever>" threads? I mean grow up kids, maybe it is time to tell you about the tooth fairy?

A dream DOES NOT signify therianthropy of any kind. Most people dream of becoming an animal of a kind, or of being a werecreature - induced by media, and general fancies. Even recurring ones still signify a liking for the creature and so want to be one. IT IS A NORMAL THING.

Whether the dream is lucid/controlled/whatever it makes no difference. Yes some, maybe many, maybe all, of your dreams can seem realistic, where you can actually feel things and taste and smell etc. This is something called "sensory recall" where your mind is capable of recalling those senses from memory and can even apply them to items you've never touched before, or things you don't know you've ever smelt or tasted before. Like blood, or something. Your mind has an amazing capability of logically understanding the environment and figuring out my sheer guessing what something may taste or smell like, based on either past experience or variations of senses regarding something similar.

So even if you encounter a scenario in your dream that you have not experienced in waking life, the brain will guess and determine senses based on as much knowledge it retains about environments and the elements regarding it.

So yes, you can have recurring shapeshifting/I'm an animal dreams to realistic detail and it will still NOT mean or indicate therianthropy.

Also remember a rule of dreams: What you see in the dream in your visuo spatial sketchpad (term used to describe "seeing" things in your mind) IS NOT WHAT YOUR BRAIN IS THINKING - it is a by-product of wants/desires/wishes and other processes of the brain as it filters and sorts knowledge obtained during the day.

Dreams do not indicate therianthropy. So how about you share dreams, but please don't be so blindingly moronic to keep asking about if it means you're a were-whatever or "is this normal" - answer is always NO to therianthropy and YES to normal.

Sorry, I've reached the end of my patience with parents, college, general life, and need to vent and the situation of stupidity in this board is just begging to be ranted about.

[lordragoon]

Can we agree that therianthropy is just a 'you think you are, so you are'? Darkwolf, you said that you've experienced many/most of the things therians do, but that you aren't a therian yourself.
Does this mean that everyone, at some level or another, has a certain degree of an 'animal side'? Whether or not therianthropy is simply the placebo effect, even though such dreams are decidedly normal, that means having dreams could indicate therianthropy or might not - it all depends on belief?

Sorry, DarkWolf, but I had to respond to a rant with a question.

[Lone Werewolf]

Could you define your definition of theriantropy, first of all? Also, while I have to agree that dreams do not indicate a sign of theriantropy or wereism, I think that sometimes dreams can be more than random images brought forth by the brain. Even througout history, people have had precognitive dreams, and although it could have been a coincidence, their dreams often come true. In a sense, if people can think that they are a spiritual were-whatever based on phantom shifts or mental shifts or whatever, why can't they people use recurring dreams as a sign of theriantropy?

[GothicRogue]

I dont think this thread was really needed. Reason for posting our dreams is to tell if they were "shifting" dreams. This is not meant to place critical judgement other people on what they dream or see. yes the mind is thinking but it could also be an astral or something deeper then a dream.

[DarkWolf]

My definition of therianthropy:
A person who has a strong spiritual or physical connection with a type of animal.

Pseudo-Reason for rant (real reason for ranting about anything will NOT be given):
I have read, received PMs, and had e-mails all from people who have come to the conclusion than they are therianthropes based solely on their dreams. While yes, some dreams can mean things and some on VERY RARE occasions have been predictions, but at this rate if these typical dreams mean therianthropy, we're facing a world that is at least what 80% or more for therianthropes and only 20% normal human. Come on.

Does this mean that everyone, at some level or another, has a certain degree of an 'animal side'?

Every human on this earth that has ever been, is, and ever shall be is an animal. Therianthrope is a person who is so in touch with a different animal that they can relate/communicate/and "feel" that other animal 24/7 to a point where if such a thing as a soul existed theirs would be in the shape of the said animal. So everyone is animal, but for most of the human race that animal is human - because if we are all therianthropes we wouldn't have hunting and such cruelty to animals where in the name of science cats are electrocuted, monkeys are cut open as they cling to barbed wire...etc..

ScarletDevil: Perhaps so, but this is a Dreams forum, so I'm talking about dreams. Not everyone's opinions are going to positive.

[Kishi-Garou]

While yes, some dreams can mean things and some on VERY RARE occasions have been predictions, but at this rate if these typical dreams mean therianthropy, we're facing a world that is at least what 80% or more for therianthropes and only 20% normal human. Come on..

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Therianthrope is a person who is so in touch with a different animal that they can relate/communicate/and "feel" that other animal 24/7 to a point where if such a thing as a soul existed theirs would be in the shape of the said animal. So everyone is animal, but for most of the human race that animal is human - because if we are all therianthropes we wouldn't have hunting and such cruelty to animals where in the name of science cats are electrocuted, monkeys are cut open as they cling to barbed wire...etc....


You're funny! *chuckles*

We are all animals. Whether or not we are 'humane' depends on the person itself. In a sense, if you believe in reincarnation, every being here has been pretty much everything. But what really matters is how we look at things NOW. It doesn't matter who's seriously an animal, when it comes to saving our little furry friends, it matters WHAT you do.