Jordan Peterson: What Your Dreams Can Tell You!

[@capitalbad1528]

I used to write down my dreams every morning. Once I had started my memory of the dreams improved fast. Soon I was able to remember several dreams per night. It was interesting seeing how different elements were woven into a dream. I started to interact with my dreams. E.g. at some point, I had dreams of being chased by scary animals. Those dreams weren't just scary, they were fun too - like action movies. I wasn't going to run away anymore, I decided, but confront the animals and ask them what they want. Next time I was chased down a hill by a bear, I stopped, turned around. The bear stopped right in front of me. "What do you want?" He told me to watch over my eggs. I looked down and saw an easter nest of painted eggs, colorful and ornamental, right in front of me on the ground. As I looked up, the bear was gone; neither he nor any of the other animals ever returned. Later I started lucid dreaming. I never qite knew what to do with it, so I used it for flying. At some point I stopped writing down my dreams; I found it had become too time consuming. Gradually I stopped remembering them again. Now a remember a dream here and there. It was a fun experience.

[@capitalbad1528]

@llriv I wrote them down by hand. I don't really know, but I doubt it would have made a difference; seems to me the important thing was to record them immediately, before I forgot them again, and, I guess, a general attitude of wanting to remember them.

[@capitalbad1528]

@llriv Hope it works for you! I kept my journal next to my bed; writing down my dreams was the very first thing I did every morning.

[@jwelectrician196]

I am going to try to start recalling my dreams as well. Thank you for your comment and subsequent replies, both of you. I will report my findings, successful or unsuccessful if you're interested

[@tobiaslislevatn6212]

Basically same thing happend to me. But same as you, I quit because it took to much time and didn’t find it so fun anymore. Never tried reading into the meaning of the dreams tho

[@truekingz8201]

I had a dream once of my father waking me up as if I was a child, but I woke up in the middle of a field while I was with the army. I woke up with tears in my eyes. It felt so real and I did not know what message he was trying to tell me. He passed away. Jordan peterson is right your ancestors communicate through your dreams.

[@purpleshade7895]

... one night i dream of the dog of my ex (i liked that dog). The dream was one of sadness. I woke up crying because the dog was dead in my dream... my ex emailed me couple of days later telling me the dog was dead. Humans have a connection to the world that we are unaware of.

[@lahmyint3000]

Daum

[@johnmccay9815]

Sending thought control tech, gives way to much advantage, then time travel future? I look at who’s lying. Dead give away, 🪰guy host, ya think, can’t figure out.

[@brmafuzfafaillio]

Dreams speak in symbols. Since your father passed away, maybe your dream meant that you must awake to -stay alive. Your father in a dream might have been a symbol of serving in the army because being a soldier is following command of the fatherland and a father-like authority.

[@PinciStrapped]

"Dream tends to occupy the space of uncertainty and to concentrate on fleshing out the unknown reality before you get a real grip on it"

[@TaylorMoats]

Had a dream with Jordan Peterson last night. He said something, then I said something. We both kind of laughed & then shook hands. Best dream I've had in awhile. :D

[@fevvral]

JP appeared in my dreams last night

[@abrahamhernandez5113]

From about the age of sixteen, dreams have showed me what to expect in the future and alerted me of problems in my life that I was unaware of. I wish i understood that sooner.

[@mybuickskill6979]

I've had that holy shit that's right! Feeling a few times in life. Peterson is still quite the man. Crazy ass Canadian 😁

I had a Marxist dream that Peterson is a liar

[@mybuickskill6979]

@ I think I would interpret that as you're thinking wrong about something 🤣🤣🤣🙃

[@JMAssainatorz]

Jungian collective subconscious. The artist goes into the world experiences something that aint verbal and translate that feeling into a medium that mirrors other peoples experience of the similar thing. Why is sad music sad? Its a collective experience of sad and what that means so when we hear sad music we become sad because we have all get reminded of those experiences we had in the past even if they where not verbal. The music is just the trigger that makes us all remember what that feelt like. being an artist my self i know the most important factor of any peice of art is story. Each work i make needs to embody and tell one. Make people feel. Dreams do the same id wager. it shifts to your feelings to articulate that which you cant.

[@fatmanpedaling]

Wishing you all the best Sir

[@ericevans8211]

Thank you for posting this video. As Peterson, (whom I respect) wants to find a rational explanation before accepting a spiritual one, I wonder how he would handle coming face to face with the demonic, like a person who is possessed. Organized evil exists, despite the tendency of most people to pretend that it does not. I continue to pray that JP receives direct revelation from God.

[@jwelectrician196]

I honestly feel Dr. Peterson has had these encounters and finds himself more Christian than we realize. This is only my opinion from watching his videos, lectures and interviews. He keeps it professional, but you can tell he has deep opinions and feelings on God himself, but does not use his gift other than in the sphere of influence he has been blessed with. I venture to believe his lectures have brought many that were on the fence, at very least, to the Scriptures themselves where those many people could use their own freewill and personal experience and understanding to make the choice to "believe" themselves...that's just a personal perspective from a devoted follower. All due respect my opinion means very little. Great question and prayer though. I honestly pray the same my friend.

[@jwelectrician196]

Also I believe the knowledge that Dr. Peterson unlocks for people is one of the strongest weapons we have against evil when aligned with the Will of God...

[@colejames423]

As a clinical psychologist, he’d probably be like, “wow, this person has a mental illness. They need help.” Just like he said in the video, there’s no reason to ascribe spirituality, or in this case “demons” to phenomena that can readily be explained empirically and rationally with biology. That’s bonkers.

[@888Longball]

As an INTJ, I believe that dreams are the minds attempt to reconcile the present by combining it with past experience and knowledge. Where the present doesn't fit with the past, something new must be created. To create something new often requires a quest for new experiences and knowledge. Once created, retrieving the something new into consciousness results in that flash of insight. So the dream is usually an incomplete vision. If you are lucky it is near complete and you wake up and write it down.

[@Tounushi]

OK, when it comes to dream symbolism, I have three that are recurring: extra rooms in my house underground facilities or storage areas Department stores. The three quite often mix together. Also, I rarely have a dream I'd class as nightmares. Horror dreams do happen, but I'm usually too entertained to want out. Like this one time there was an underground cave (of course) being researched by a science team. They let out something, along with torrents of blood from unadorned alcoves cut into the walls. These beings were invisible, but they turned the blood into a golden liquid. The dream ended when I (or my character) tried to crawl up one of the alcoves, but both ends of the torrent of blood started turning gold. "I" took an utility knife and dropped down on the creature below, which was now covered in gold blood.

[@bobhara7656]

I have for years had dreams about being lost in a place, always different,..a town, a city, a mountainous area, and I'm always try8ng to get back home. Can't find my car in the parking lot,..can't get the phone number of a taxi cab, etc. I always ask "which way is it to Seabrook" where I live. I understand the message,..it's about getting to my spiritual home, I believe. I also dream constantly about my beloved parents in different situations. Very painful at times but they persist regardless what I do in my "awake" time. I have been out of my body more times then I can count and have experienced the "Light" during meditation. Thoughts??

[@kyletanis5680]

How do we know WE aren't dreaming?

[@raghunath8246]

More often than not, I've been able to trace back the imagery in my dreams to real life events...a great part of it would be from the recent past...old memories that form a part of my dream are generally ones that had invoked intense reactions or emotions at the time of the event...I'll just elaborate one of my recent dreams...START OF DREAM...I'm at this small restaurant opening a jar of pickle only to find out that it is full of live but pickled miniature cobras...I took one in my palm and it had it's hood up but ws facing away from me...it had some kind of a base to it...perhaps it's coils but it reminded me of the knight piece on a chess board and was as un threatening but I immediately dropped it on the floor...END OF DREAM....I could clearly track the origins of the dream...it ws a combination of 3 memories...one frm the previous night, another from 2-3 years ago and another one from more than 10 years ago...The night before, just a few minutes before going to bed, I was scrolling through my KZbin wall and had seen a thumbnail of a cobra Video. (This perhaps triggered the dream)....then I remember seeing an actress on a news channel finding a baby cobra in her backyard and holding it in her palm, it had it's hood up but was facing away from her; this ws the memory from 2-3 yrs ago...and then there's this story a close friend of mine had told me more than 10 years ago....while in college, his brother had a friend from one of the north eastern states of India who had once bought a jar of snake pickle...that kinda stuck in my mind....so it's like I just took in these events, stored it in my mind and created a new scenario out of it...with me as the protagonist

[@gitfoad8032]

Surprises me how no-one talks about the full-on dream choreographies.

[@juice144pTTV]

Now I am afraid to go to sleep

[@shadowling77777]

dzoni dzekson Well there’s psychological definitely meaning there.

[@choulsarra6039]

Most of the times i have a several dreams per night , but the most astonishing dream i had in years is this one : i was stting with man on bench, behind us was a tree and in front of us a train moving , this man looked like Mat Damon stiing beside me , And I suddenly became aware i was in a dream , it was all of a sudden that my dream became lucide one , and i relized that all the men in my dream were my animus when i was dreaming, I was smilling and asked the Mat Damon figure in English ( I'm multilingual person i speak English French and Arabic) so I asked him : Are my animus and replied smiling : Oui ( Yes in English) and i said après tout tes mignon ( means you're cute after all ) and he said : ahh tu trouve mignon hein ( you find me cute hein ) and he seemed all smittened and smiling , and i said all men here are my animus and i was lauging ! I was really relieved i felt the most relief i could ever feel that all this men are my animus in my dream i m telling you I'm still in shoked out of this dream.

[@AdrianaRosalesAuthor]

Yes 🎉

[@redskinjim]

When i was a kid i had a dream about octopus parachuting down from the sky they ran on two legs with their other arms tucked up underneath i saw the parachutes but realized they were invaders from space. They killed everyone but me and when it caught me in the house I woke up….very terrifying i had it over and over again

[@paigekeller2397]

I just had a dream that I like had an arm injury, and to fix it… the doctor shrunk down my soul and put me inside my arm. And then I was inside my arm and I had to cut my way out through veins and shit. What does that mean??

[@PasqualeRaso1975]

I feel that in dreams I have limited expression that other minds are performing them trying to set the scene in a controlled environment where I'm forced to interact in a program being monitored and experimented on being preoccupied my mind kept in a state of limited imagination by the world I'm enslaved in that keeps me blinded because I'm not welcomed in the Astral Plane!

[@khmershakur9197]

I had a dream that I was dreaming and in that dream I was also dreaming.

[@lahmyint3000]

Trippy

[@chanceym6000]

Christopher Nolan wants to know your location

[@theresaclancy6091]

What about spiritual dreams??? Joseph in the Bible had a dream....

[@andym9423]

I would love an in depth lecture on that. That's my favorite story in the Bible

[@TJ-kk5zf]

Bernardo Kastrup

[@DJSTOEK]

🖤

[@paramgohil404]

Once i had a dream that my crush was sitting beside me and my hand was across her shoulder and we were laughing.

[@bobhara7656]

I love Joseph Campbell and the way he presents things. All due respect I can't listen to this man,..he seems to just ramble on,..as one person said here "as if he is infatuated with his own words but can't really get to a point". or something like that. I came here for an answer and got a word salad that stopped me listening half way thru. My loss?,..maybe,.. but at 71 I want somebody to get to the point not just ramble on. Peace,..I'll go listen to Joseph on this matter!

[@nathangamble125]

Last night I had a dream that Jordan Peterson was my teacher at school, and he made us complete an exam about critical thinking, but for some reason one of the questions instructed us to write ABDL porn. I failed the exam, because he didn't think my descriptions were explicit enough. I was about as confused about it as anyone reading this probably is. I'm not into ABDL, and I know basically nothing about Jordan Peterson; I didn't even know he'd made videos about interpreting dreams. WTF is _that_ dream supposed to mean?

[@lahmyint3000]

I dreamt of getting stabbed by my dads best friend that always come over but it was more like a Battle after he stabbed me and weird started stabbing each other and after that I tried to run but my uncle was in the way and we found out he was that one who wanted me dead and orchestrated/planned and my sister called the cops and idk why but we all helped him try and escape the cops but before that when I got stabbed I showed my parents my stab wounds and they didn’t believe me and he ran from the cops and he came back we gave him a lot of meat salt pepper and stuff and I was crying when he was about to leave and at the end my dad was like my son won at the end. 😭😂

[@robertgammill9811]

I don't know if you read these or if you have staff that does. And i don't know if you think about the things that people say or if you beleive that you already know everything that people think. It's hard to say. You seem like a real thinker but you say things that I'm confident you haven't given much thought to. You jump between one's notions and Frauds notions and your clients. You are right, where does it come from. It just appears in my head is not a very sophisticated answer. So then where does it come from? 🤔 Who does it come from? Maybe if being a teacher as you clearly are you should think on this one maybe just a little bit more than what did others think... just saying.

[@junevandermark952]

If you are a Christian ... you might have a dream that you saw and visited with Jesus. If you are a Muslim ... you might have a dream that you saw and visited with Muhammad. If you are a Hindu ... you might have a dream that you saw and visited with Krishna. If you are a Buddhist ... you might have a dream that you saw and visited with Buddha. All it proves ... is that dreams are NOT dependable.

[@noahstrodtman6121]

what an incredibly short sighted conclusion

[@junevandermark952]

@@noahstrodtman6121 Please explain what you believe is short-sighted about my conclusion. I don't know about you, but I relate to the following quote ... “We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” Anil Seth … neuroscientist.

[@pratap1037]

Didn't understand anything what he wants to convey 😎

[@plumleytube]

Dreams don't mean anything. Choose another subject.

[@purpleshade7895]

Meaning is something that comes afterward. Just like a piece of art is meaningless until somebody ask himself "what does it mean?"

[@purpleshade7895]

@llriv that is why meaning only comes with the question "what does it mean?". It is subjective and in deed nothing have meaning inherently outside that subjectivity.

[@leyk17]

Does it bother you that you can't understand your own dreams?

[@IBlackyl]

If you would have worked as a Psychoanalysist you would know that your statement is silly

[@dinglesplat3281]

I’m glad your deep Twitter research has taught you that. However Twitter had never really gotten along with really any study ever, nor science in general.

[@danielclark920]

I had a dream last night that my younger liberal brother was praising Hunter Biden.... I woke up in a cold sweat