How to talk about DREAMS in English

Every night you dream at least, at least 10 dreams a night. Do you remember your dreams?

If you do, you're well on your way to having some fantastic times when you close your eyes.

Today I'm going to teach you about one of my favourite things in the world ever - dreams

and dreaming. Maybe you know the Supertramp song: "Dreamer". I'm not going to sing it

for you, but I'm going to teach you about some things I know about dreams.

The first one is I want you to ask yourself this question: When you dream, do you dream

only in black and white or do you dream in colour? It's interesting because everyone's

different. When I dream, I always dream in colour. Some people only dream in black and

white, so it's a cool little thing you can ask your friends, ask your family, and see,

you'll find out everyone's different. Some people only dream in colour; some people only

dream in black and white. I do not know the psychology behind it. I think it's interesting,

but I don't know why.

The second question that I have for you is: When you dream, are you yourself? This means

first-person. So, are you...? Are you doing the action? Or are you watching or seeing

yourself do the action? Some people are both, and can do both; it can switch. For me, I

am always myself doing the action. Some people, it's like they're watching a movie, and they

are the star in the movie. And other people, like I said, can switch and do both. At one

point of the dream they can be a main character, and the other point or other dream, they can

watch themselves. How about you? Tell me your answers in the comments. Tell me. Do you dream

in black and white, or colour? And are you yourself in the dream or do you see or watch

yourself in a dream? We'll do a little survey and find out from answers all around the world.

What happens when you dream?

Let's go into some terminology, some vocabulary, if you will, about dreams. Commonly... We

don't really have a word for them because we don't call them "night dreams", but we

do have what are called "daydreams". "Daydreams" are what you maybe do at work when you're

supposed to be working or at school when you're supposed to be learning, or just at the end

of the day on the bus. Daydreams are basically like you are physically there, but your brain

is imagining different things. This is one of my hobbies, daydreaming. I remember when

I was young-I'm so old now-I would just sit in my room for hours and daydream about everything

and anything. It was fantastic. My imagination, massive. So daydreams happen during the daytime,

yeah? And "night dreams", we don't actually call them "night dreams", we just call them

"dreams". Are you a dreamer? "A dreamer" is someone who dreams, daydreams all the time.

They don't really get a lot done. But I'm a dreamer. You got to have dreams, right?

Let's go through a couple of kinds of types of dreams. The first one is "lucid". So "lucid

dreams" mean you realize in the dream that you are actually dreaming. Now, this, ladies

and gentlemen, can be really cool because you might wake up during the dream, and you

go: "Hey, I'm dreaming right now." If you can do this, if you can realize you're having

a lucid dream, you can then begin to control your dreams. This is one thing that I experimented

with when I was younger is that I would realize that I was dreaming, and I would change my

dream and make it more into a fantasy. A fantastic fantasy of feathers and fudgesicles.

This is a really terrible kind of dream, it's called a "nightmare". Nightmares are also

known as "bad dreams". Usually when we're children, we're sleeping, we might

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wake up, screaming or crying. Maybe we have dreams about monsters. This would be a nightmare.

Bad dreams or nightmares cause anxiety, so something bad is happening to you in the dream,

you might dream of death, somebody's dead. Maybe you watched a zombie movie, and in your

dream, you're being chased by zombies. It's on a subconscious level, so things that we

might have done in the day or talked about or seen can come back in our dream. They can

come back in a bad way, and become a nightmare. You might wake up screaming, or crying, or

something bad has happened in your dream world.

And some people have what's called a "reoccurring dream", a "recurring dream" means you have

the same dream over and over again. Again, lucid dreams, if you can control them, some

people can control them; nightmares and recurring dreams, it's almost impossible to control

them. Now, reoccurring dreams will happen, we don't know when, we don't really know why,

but it'll be the same situation and the same dream over and over again. It can go on for

years. People say you have this because you have some issue or some problem that's unresolved,

means you haven't fixed a problem. Other people just don't know why we have reoccurring dreams.

Have you had a reoccurring dream, or do you have those? I never have.

The next word is "prophetic dreams" or known as "psychic dreams". And you might hear the

word "psychic" on TV or in crazy movies where there's a person that can tell you your future

or foretell the future. These people might be doing it for money, or they might actually

have a gift to be able to foretell the future. But some people can have psychic or prophetic

dreams, which means something will happen in the dream and then it'll come true in the

future. So your dream foretells the future. This happens to me quite a lot. It won't be

the same situation, but the emotion or feeling that I have in the dream will happen in real

life again. It's pretty creepy, but interesting. I've gotten used to it.

These are some common themes or common things that people have analyzed dreams, and they

tell you about why you dream this. So, the first one: being chased. So if you're running

and running and running, and someone chases you, they tell you that... "They" being the

dream experts mean that you're not addressing something in your life. So not addressing

something means you're not solving a problem you have in your life, or you're not admitting

to a problem you have. So, you're being chased because you're not stopping, and going:

"Hey. I got a problem."

Anytime you dream about water, it always has to do with your emotions, and the different

types of water can mean different things. For example, if you're at a lake and it's

very calm, this is going to mean that maybe in the future you're going to have a calmness

or everything's going to be relaxed. If you have a dream where maybe you're in the ocean

and waves are crazy, this means your emotions are going to get very high and very tense.

Death, example you have a dream that somebody dies, actually it doesn't that somebody's

going to die. It actually means there's going to be a dramatic change in your life, so something

in your life is going to change in a big style, in a big way. Maybe you're going to move or

something is going to change your life.

Falling, this happens to me a lot. This is cool. People say that if you fall in your

dream, you always wake up before you land. Apparently, if you die in your dream, you

die in real life. I don't know. I've never died in my dream. Have you? Have you come

back from the dead? Are you a zombie? So dreaming of falling, if you are falling very slowly

almost like you're floating, it means that you're letting go of some emotions or you're

letting go of some problems. But if you're falling really quickly, I'm going to die,

it means that you're going to lose control of a situation or you already have lost control

of a situation, or you're going to lose control of a situation. So the forms, how fast you

fall, depends on the interpretation of it.

And the last one, apparently this is a really common or popular dream. People have dreams

that their partner-boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, whatever-are cheating on them, that means

that they're having sex or doing bad things with other people. This is actually a really,

really common dream, and it's a fear of being wronged. "Wronged" means someone does something

bad to you. So this is a fear we have, that someone's going to hurt you in some way, or

you have a feeling of being... Sorry, a fear of being left alone or abandoned because if

someone cheats on you, probably your relationship will be over,

and the person's gone out of your life.

So, other things you guys can do to help you with your dreams. I hear people say:

"I don't dream." You do dream, but the thing is you don't remember your dreams.

We only remember the dreams that you wake up during.

If you want to, just for fun, you can make a dream

diary. So if you wake up, you write down your dreams. And you wake up in the morning, go:

"Whoa.

I don't remember that." You don't remember it because it's gone. So if you write it...

Wake up and write it down and you can read it, it's really cool.

Last piece of advice or a myth, a legend, my grandmother or my gran told me that if

you have a dream that the stone is missing from a ring... For example, I have a ring

and I have an amethyst in it, if I have a dream that a stone is missing from the ring,

it means that someone close to me is going to die. Have you ever had that dream?

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.

All of these things that I've told you about being chased, and water, and death, these

are all people's interpretations of dreams. I do not believe that your dream and my dream,

if it's similar, has any similarities whatsoever. I think people's dreams are as individual

as each other, so you can go on to the internet, and look up: "Oh, I had a dream about a van.

What does a van mean?" And you're going to get maybe five different interpretations of

it. It's your chance to think about it, and reflect on what dreams mean to you. Not anyone

else or not anyone's interpretation of it, but try it out.

The last thing you can do just before you go to bed, try this social experiment. Before

you go to bed, eat cheese. The stinkier, the smeller, the grosser the cheese, apparently

the more vivid or crazy your dreams will be.

Sweet dreams.