1. DREAM FROM THE POINT OF
NBD
By
Naorem Binita Devi
Kakching,Manipur

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• Dream is some sort of activities while we are sleeping.
Earlier i never gave attention about dream. But sometimes
it gives me a thinking process “why and how does dream
come while someone is sleeping”. What message the
dream is trying to say and what is the connection to one’s
real world. I never search the meaning of dream at earlier
time. Sometimes, dream which i dreamt come into the
reality. For instance, once i dreamt about existing building
of rice mill in front of my house. The place at that time is
garden. Now the rice mill building exist in front of my
house. Latter when the rice mill existed, i told my parents
that i saw rice mill building in my dream. Likewise
something i dreamt and came it latter but i did not give any
attention on this matter.

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• I started giving thinking about dream since 2004. But this
time also i did not search it out what is the latent meaning
of my dream.
• But sometimes i am surprised what the dream wants to
give the message from one line.
• “do not go that place.” “call back from that place, saying to
my parents”. Latter in my dream i changed their direction.
• In reality situation, the investigator joined as an adhoc-
lecturer at one Institution on 8th January 2004.
• My first teaching experience gave me a lot of things to do
in my life. It gave me a foundation to analyse the dream
again and again. It gave me the foundation to explore
dream in one’s workplace situation. It gave an inspiration
to construct theories of dream how does it occur, how to
interpret, why such dream comes in one’s life, how does it
connect to real life situation, etc.

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• Dream has a meaning. If you minutely remember your dreams to
your waking life, you may come up one point that yes it says
something. Dream relates to past events (based on workplace) that
leads to present story and again it predicts one’s future life.
• Dream is some sort of activities which can be shown to the
dreamer with some form of symbols that are difficult to decipher
but it can give meaningful interpersonal conflictual situation or
one’s form of tension situation if one gets the meaning of the
symbol. It gives recall experiences when one awakes from the
sleep. Sometimes you find very strange situation after having been
recall your dream state. You may forget your dream also. As i think
it is one reason people neglect to study the dream. Researchers
found that dreams which we could not remember belong to deep
sleep. Those who can easily remember dream occur in REM sleep.

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• Dream is a journey like an explorer tries to find out new
things in unknown place. In doing so, hard work,
determination, patience, individual’s ideas, coordination
etc are needed. If you observe and think one moment, an
explorer who wants to explore unknown jungle or mission
to unknown place, what they do? Many strategies may
come up to find their goal.
• They try to collect many ideas and strategies from different
expert people or those who are very idealistic in such area.
• If you go to the jungle, on the way, you may stuck by many
thorns but you do not allow to enter the thorn inside your
body, why? You know the answer; give yourself.

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• Likewise, if you dreamt of bad dreams,i.e.,nightmare,
instead of remaining on bad mood, try to find out what is
going on around your waking life situation. Please do not
shallow such fear of nightmare you had seen last night,
otherwise what happen?
• Thorn which you did not allow to stuck in your body to
enable you work again in the jungle give a meaningful life
to the person.
• In the same way, nightmare that you seen in last night will
not allow to change in your mood in waking life. Instead,
search it out what is going on around so that it gives you an
interesting exploration in your dream.
• What i want to mean is : explore, discover, solve the
situation, enjoy, share to other and encourage about
dreams how to interpret it.

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• I accept that dreams are unconscious state as given by
Sigmund Freud. When you see any dream themes like
falling down from hill, climbing, broken teeth,
throwing stone to you, attacking you with knife or gun,
chasing you, catching fish, seeing God, seeing death
people and saying something to you, etc. Such themes
give you a different mood when you wake up in the
early morning. When you dreamt of very bad dream
like your mother or father died, or you involved a
major incident, what do you do when you open your
eyes? Might be you remember you own God and you
feel anxiety whenever you go out from the home.
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8. TYPES OF DREAM ACCORDING TO NBD:
• SIMPLE DREAM : sometimes dream come without any
warning, simply seeing your friend after a long time like
that.
• NAHEBA DREAM ( DREAM BEFORE DEATH) : In Meitei
community, we used word “NAHEBA” meaning dream
before death. Here terrible dream is associated to the
dreamer. It hardly take place. In such dream a very
different sound is associated from the dreamer. If she/he
can remember the God’s name, he/she can overcome the
dream. But in such dream period, external people knew
that the dreamer is under the period of “NAHEBA.” The
person who heard such sound, he/she has to wake up the
dreamer by touching the dreamer’s body. If you observe,
the moment you touch the body and bring the dreamer in
the waking sate, he/ she used the word of God. ( hey
Ishwar). I encountered such dream in my mother. i wake up
her from such dream period by touching the body.

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• MANGLONTABA DREAM ( DREAM WITHIN THE DREAM): Manglontaba
dream is also associated in the Meitei community dream. Here sometimes
we ourselves narrate our own dream to ourselves while sleeping. It is
considered a bad thing in our community.
• LAUGHING DREAM : Laughing dream is related to the someone tries to
laugh you when you are facing a problematic situation in real life and it
also shows that there is another way which the dreamer want to go in
another path if the problematic situation is very tense.
• EROTIC DREAM : It is related to someone’s fantasy towards their love
one in real life situation but express such desires in one’s dream for wish
fulfilment.
• WARNING DREAM : It relates to dreamer’s real life is entering in wrong
way which can lead him/her in a vulnerable position but the dreamer
does not know what is going on in their real life. In such case, the dreamer
dreamt of “do not go that place.””or call him/her back from that place.”
Etc.
• INTERPERSONAL DREAM : Interpersonal dream is related to the one’s
working with others in real life situation. Here the dreamer dreamt of
their relation in bad or good ways.

10. SOURCES OF DREAM:
• Anxiety, tension, and stressful situation in one’s life : According to
me, anxiety, tension and stressful situation is a source of dream.
Under such situation, a dreamer dreamt of attacking you, throwing
stone to you, unable to climb up, seeing nightmare etc. When you
are such situation, you have a sense of insecurity in your relation,
worry with someone etc.
• Pre-plan activities imposed by the external to the target person
unconsciously : Pre-plan activities is associated in the workplace
relationship. When a new employee enters to the workplace but
other already worked their never want him/her. In such situation
they plan some act to remove the young employee. In doing such
activities they kept young employee as a target person for their
goal. But the target person remains all the time in tension situation.
He/she unconsciously react toward them. then, they started doing
bullying attitude toward him/her. Whenever such act done by them
it happen in front of others. So the target understand that he/she is
wrong but she/he could do anything. Such condition gave him/her
an anxiety arousing situation that leads to dream. It is partly
associated with the first one but different intensity.

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• Cluster effects to the target person : It is same as above.
Here forming two groups but it is unknown to the target
person; here sometimes giving moral support and at the
last moment the two groups become one to gain their own
separate goal; in such withdrawing and attaching nature
gives the target a tense situation and it leads to dream.
• Realising one’s problem in real life situation and ready to
give guidance to him/her: When someone face the real life
situation that brought a wide known regarding the
problem, people started talking in the real life situation to
solve the problem. Because the problem is associated to
someone. Sometimes you see different figure in your
dream it means that the problem what the person is facing
is understood by the other people. That is why such things
are also a source of dream; because they want to help you.

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• Interpersonal conflictual situation focused to the
dreamer : Interpersonal problem is a problem in day to
day life at the workplace at the form of politics. When
your are under the politics, you are just like a football.
People tries to use you to gain their opportunity. If you
do not speak out also, it shows that you are speaking.
Such politics brought you a headache and sometimes
you aggressively react to them. such confusion,
headache,chaose, belief system etc. brought you a
source of dream.
• Desire to wish fulfilment: sometimes the source of the
dream relate to wish fulfilment. You want something in
real life but you did not get it ; it shows in your dream.

13. THEORY OF DREAM ACCORDING TO NBD:
INTERPERSONAL PRE-PLAN THEORY TO THE TARGET
PERSON:
• At the workplace, people possessing different educational
background, different age-group, different status, different
cultural aspects etc, working together under one rule and
regulation. In such working atmosphere, minor sector of
the workplace kept themselves their policies and strategies
under common understanding to bring welfare of the
workplace. Their common understanding was kept
objectively by other minor sector of the workplace and if in
case found, they together try to bring in true way.
• While doing such process, many conflictual situation was
involved i.e., not wanting to bring true way, wanting to
bring their own opinion on the way that leads to crisis
situation to the another one.

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• If in case, now, imagine, true way came and kept someone
at the workplace disregarding their opinion. But those
opinion was neglected, then they together tried to make
shaping the someone on true way. In trying to shape, they
may form cluster group and such cluster group keep
someone in anxiety/tension situation. If someone is under
tension/anxiety situation then dreams of fear factor was
associated to the someone ( here as a target by the
neglected people). So, according to me, the dream is
shaped by the external pre-plan act by the bi-cluster groups
to the target person; here the pre-plan act involve to
remove the target person but the target never knew their
plan; he/she unconsciously react toward the pre-plan act
people. On the other hand, pre-plan act people kept
him/her in an anxiety/tension situation through the help of
bullying attitude.

15. RELATING DREAM TO WAKINING LIFE ACCORDING TO
NBD:
• Associate dream to the earlier existing situation at the workplace or other in one’s
life;
• Associate dream to the present existing situation that is related to the past
situation at the workplace or other in one’s life;
• Associate dream message or dream content to the future in one’s life at the
workplace or other;
• Associate dream theme to the nature of struggle in one’s waking life;
• Associate dream symbol to the past deed or work you put but fruit shall come
later in one’s waking life;
• Associate dream theme to the nature of one’s interpersonal relation to the waking
life situation;
• Associate dream theme to what exactly happen in day to day life in one’s spouse,
son, daughter, and family members, neighbours and relatives;
• Associate dream theme to what exactly one wants to be in real life situation;
• Associate dream theme to what others are really to help in your day to day
struggle in waking life.

16. In my analysis part i want to ask question regarding the
dream to the dreamer:
• Do you remember the whole dream?
• What are you doing in the dream?
• What are others doing on the dream?
• What symbols did you see in your dream?
• The symbols that you seen in your dream, have any
meaning in your own way?
• Are you involved in any conflictual situation in the dream?
• Had you heard any message from the dead people?
• Do you feel fear after the dream? Say what type of dream.
• So, one can ask questions about the landscape,
interpersonal relation to the dream, erotic feeling, etc.

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• After having been collected the reports from the dreamer, i try to
find out the past, present and future aspects of the dreamer.
• For example, if the dreamer comes dream from the external
influences due to workplace conflictual situation or pre-plan act
from the external, the following questions can be used to decipher
the meaning and used as a therapeutic technique.
• Are you worked earlier in real life?
• What is the past condition in the post before you entered the
place?
• What is the other’s relation to the earlier person who worked here
before you joined it?
• Do you have any good support from your side?
• What is your relation to your colleague?
• Are they supportive?

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• Do you share your feeling of dissatisfaction to your colleagues?
• Do you have any interpersonal conflict to them?
• Do you hear any bullying attitude towards you?
• What you want to be from this workplace?
• What is your desire towards them?
• IF IN CASE , IF YOU APPEAR ANY EXAM,IN THE PAST BUT THE
RESULT WILL NOT COME OUT, THEN DREAM RELATED QUESTION IN
REAL LIFE SITUATION: ( crossing bridge, climbing, falling etc.):
• Did you appear any exam?
• Did you have any tension/anxiety? ( external, internal, or
interpersonal)
• When i analyze the dream i try to find out the dreamer real life
situation in detail in day to day life, past and what he/she wants to
be i.e., desire factor.
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19. Author’s Name:
• Naorem Binita Devi
• E-mail: binitaji@yahoo.co.in
• binitadevi@hotmail.com

20. THANK YOU,ALL