Dreams Blog

Edgar Cayce, a popular U.S.-based psychic, has come up with his interpretation of some common dreams that we experience.

1. Vehicular problems: This dream usually occurs to people who don’t know how to drive. The dreamer may find the vehicle not having brakes or about to collide with another vehicle or about to fall off a cliff. The dream serves as a symbol of a person’s life path. According to Cayce, you may be encountering some events in your life that you could not control.

2. Flunking in exams:  This dream usually happens to those who’ve been out of school for a long period of time. The dream may include not finishing the test on time, getting lost in the school grounds and not having the necessary requirements before taking the exam. Dream interpreters said that this has something to do with having frustrations about not achieving a goal or fear of not being accepted by the public.

3. Death or illness: This means that you have been hurt emotionally or fearful of being hurt in the long run.

4. Being chased around: This usually happens when you are stressed. Running from something dangerous in the dream is our instinct reaction to the threats of the world. We tend to avoid confronting the situation instead.

5. Missing teeth: It means that we are conscious about our looks and afraid of being ridiculed.

A popular psychologist revealed that it is perfectly normal when sometimes your whole body suddenly jerks awake before falling asleep.

According to Dr. Joan Woodworth, the said phenomena is called “myoclonic jerk.” She explained that our muscles sometimes relax faster even before the oxygen can gain access to them.

Woodworth has been touring the U.S. for the past years to explain in detail her studies on sleep and dreams. She came up with 5 types of sleep: Stage 1, 2, 3, 4 and REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep.

It is on the fifth stage or REM sleep that most of our dreams occur, according to Dr. Woodworth. In fact, when we wake up a person who’s currently on the REM stage, that person will likely recall the dream.

Dr. Woodworth added that the fifth stage of sleep usually takes place 2 hours during our sleep and the body goes to a sleep paralysis in order for us not to act out the dream. In some cases, people go to another stage where they can sleep-talk or sleep-walk.

She added that all of us do amazing things in our sleep but we are not in an articulated state.