Origin of Dreams and How Meaningful They Can Be

Dreams are defined as. "A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. " Last night, I had nightmares like crazy, but woke up to feeling good that the sun was out and it was a good day.

What boggles me is distinguishing between what really causes dreams. Are they just completely out of the blue? Why are some remembered and some not? I've got so many questions because my nightmares are fierce, I wake up sweating, sometimes I shake as if I'm falling off a cliff, but then.................the moment comes where I wake up and realize reality hitting me right in the face, I'm here.......................for real................right now.

I can only recall one time where I realized I was in a dream. Because I knew that so many weird bizarre things were happening to me in that particular dream, I did stupid stuff like jumping off roofs, haha, wanting to fly, trying to injure myself and I kept telling myself before doing these stupid things, "It's ok, I'm dreaming, it's ok."

You know, make that two instances, hahh! When taking Driver's Ed, I had a dream that I was riding in my Honda Civic and my mom was in the passenger seat and we were on the 121 in Dallas and my mom and I were just talking about what to look for in driving, obstacles, and what not. And, all of the sudden, out of the blue, this huge go-kart was apparently just sitting there on the freeway, I didn't see it and I crashed my car into it. My mom was fine and I was fine. I couldn't process everything so, my mom tried her best to calm me down, I started to cry and said how sorry I was for doing this horrible thing and I told her that I was an idiot for not seeing the go kart. She said, "Justin, relax...............this is just a dream, not real life." Hahah! So, my emotions quickly changed from feeling sad to feeling really happy. Hahah, so, what did I do after that? I got out of the car, and jumped off a bridge so I could wake up and tell my mom all about it over breakfast!!!! It sure was hilarious!

I believe dreams have meaning. Some of them are frightening, some of them are awkward at first glance and others are unexplainable, but to everything there is a reason and dreams are not excluded from that. Well, that's my opinion, anyway. What's you take on it? Could it be that nightmares originate from negative energy/Adversary? Could it be that they are launched from a bad night or are they sporadic and can occur anytime? Could this be a cause for certain people with sleep apnea? Are they afraid of being in a "too real" dream? I'm very curious about this one.