What was interesting about the dream was that I was basically incompetent not knowing what to do until I sat down and explained IRAs to the young woman. Then I settled down and relaxed and woke up.
Probably just firing neurons but dreams are interesting to me. Some cultures spend a lot of time telling each other their dreams. Not here in the US of A.
even if just neurons firing, at the very least they are the brain sorting out & filing events and thoughts of the day. so at that very least, here it is that you are able to watch your own mind and often in living color. wow. and so if anything, dreams offer a sense of our ability to look at ourselves that we might not be just wrapped up in ourselves but rather that we are able to unravel ourselves.
here in the us of a, when we are not distracted by western medicine & science we are hijacked by religion and so there is sadly little opportunity for shared objectivity & clear introspection.
I can only remember one dream I had...For the rest of my life I can only remember dreams for about 45 seconds to a minute after waking up. They just eveporate.
put a pad & paper by bed, a dream journal. as soon as you awaken write down at least some of the dream elements and actions. by as soon i mean as soon. do not even take the time to scratch yourself. wake up, pick up your pen and write. if you are falling back to sleep you don't even have to write down it all, just some. when you read back your journal more details will come to mind later. more and more you will recall. eventually they will no longer just evaporate. and, if you want, they will become so stable that you can even stalk them.
I routinely have weird dreams .One of my recurring dreams is it's Christmas Eve and I haven't done anything no tree , no presents ,nothing and as I head to the stores in a panic they all close .
recurring dreams are excellent opportunities to come into contact with your dream self. most dreams are very different and yet when we awaken, we wake up to the same world. and so we consider the world real and dreams not because when we sleep, each time the world is different but when we awaken the world is the same.
but what happens to reality if when we sleep, we dream the same dream with the same dream characters as we had the night before.
if you are not happy with either the elements of a recurring dream or with your dream character's reactions and thoughts to the elements, simply give yourself instructions before sleeping and upon waking of how you want your dream character to behave. it is, after all, your dream character.
The vast majority of my dreams are rooted in work-related trauma, often accompanied by kicking, thrashing, & screaming. The dreams, not so much the trauma...It's been nearly six years since I ER'd, though, and if I'm still dreaming then I'm not remembering them.
when you mentioned that in a prior post i wondered what that must be like. i could understand but not relate. i thought i knew how to deal with it even though i'd never experienced it. then when my mother died, i would have dreams of her which produced similar similar experience as yours.
though part of my problem was because i am often a lucid dreamer (in that my consciousness is awake during the dream). what i found is that i'd be in a nonlucid dream, dreaming of my mom, and then the dream would turn lucid. my counsciousness would awaken to the dream during the dream. of course being conscious, i would remember that my mother had just died. so not only in the dream would i become hysterically sad, but my dream character would be crying and going into convulsions which of course would wake up my physical body. i would then find myself in my physical body, my body crying and in convulsions.
i had a simpler solution than you might easily manage because i simply stopped myself from dreaming lucidly as i can turn that on and off. i also stopped dreaming about my mother because i was not ready to deal with any of that type of dreamwork then.
my point being that you can control this. and not just control it, but more importantly, you can resolve this. being such a bright guy i would suggest you do it with some professional guidance as such dreamwork can put a mind like yours over the edge. if you are not adverse to meditation which i think would help, i would suggest you start there. if you like, i have some very mindful cousins on maui who can either help or possibly refer
What was interesting about the dream was that I was basically incompetent not knowing what to do until I sat down and explained IRAs to the young woman. Then I settled down and relaxed and woke up.
Probably just firing neurons but dreams are interesting to me. Some cultures spend a lot of time telling each other their dreams. Not here in the US of A.
even if just neurons firing, at the very least they are the brain sorting out & filing events and thoughts of the day. so at that very least, here it is that you are able to watch your own mind and often in living color. wow. and so if anything, dreams offer a sense of our ability to look at ourselves that we might not be just wrapped up in ourselves but rather that we are able to unravel ourselves.
here in the us of a, when we are not distracted by western medicine & science we are hijacked by religion and so there is sadly little opportunity for shared objectivity & clear introspection.
I can only remember one dream I had...For the rest of my life I can only remember dreams for about 45 seconds to a minute after waking up. They just eveporate.
put a pad & paper by bed, a dream journal. as soon as you awaken write down at least some of the dream elements and actions. by as soon i mean as soon. do not even take the time to scratch yourself. wake up, pick up your pen and write. if you are falling back to sleep you don't even have to write down it all, just some. when you read back your journal more details will come to mind later. more and more you will recall. eventually they will no longer just evaporate. and, if you want, they will become so stable that you can even stalk them.
I routinely have weird dreams .One of my recurring dreams is it's Christmas Eve and I haven't done anything no tree , no presents ,nothing and as I head to the stores in a panic they all close .
recurring dreams are excellent opportunities to come into contact with your dream self. most dreams are very different and yet when we awaken, we wake up to the same world. and so we consider the world real and dreams not because when we sleep, each time the world is different but when we awaken the world is the same.
but what happens to reality if when we sleep, we dream the same dream with the same dream characters as we had the night before.
if you are not happy with either the elements of a recurring dream or with your dream character's reactions and thoughts to the elements, simply give yourself instructions before sleeping and upon waking of how you want your dream character to behave. it is, after all, your dream character.
The vast majority of my dreams are rooted in work-related trauma, often accompanied by kicking, thrashing, & screaming. The dreams, not so much the trauma...It's been nearly six years since I ER'd, though, and if I'm still dreaming then I'm not remembering them.
when you mentioned that in a prior post i wondered what that must be like. i could understand but not relate. i thought i knew how to deal with it even though i'd never experienced it. then when my mother died, i would have dreams of her which produced similar experience as yours.
though part of my problem was because i am often a lucid dreamer (in that my consciousness is awake during the dream). what i found is that i'd be in a nonlucid dream, dreaming of my mom, and then the dream would turn lucid. my consciousness would awaken to the dream during the dream. of course being conscious, i would remember that my mother had just died. so not only in the dream would i become hysterically sad, but my dream character would be crying and going into convulsions which of course would wake up my physical body. i would then find myself in my physical body, my body crying and in convulsions.
i had a simpler solution than you might easily manage because, as i can turn all that on and off at will, i simply stopped myself from dreaming lucidly. also i stopped dreaming about my mother because i was not ready to deal with any of that type of dreamwork then.
my point being that you can control this. and not just control it, but more importantly, you can resolve this. being such a bright guy i would suggest you do it with some professional guidance as such dreamwork can put a mind like yours over the edge. if you are not adverse to meditation which i think would help, i would suggest you start there. if you like, i have some very mindful cousins on maui who can either help directly or possibly refer you to someone more local to you.
