I like that everybody has experience of dreams and dreaming. Some maybe more than others, but I'm fascinated why we don't hear more about it or are taught more of it. I know people can keep dream diaries or analyse their dreams and I'm intrigued by this. I don't do it myself as I don't want to affect my subconscious with reading meaning into things then influencing future dream states knowing what imagery supposedly represents. I guess to me the best thing to help remember dreams is keeping a diary of them. Just knowing you'll be writing the facts of what you've seen and heard would be good, like training your brain to recall the details. I keep promising myself I shall do it, but I'm useless in the morning until at least a couple of hours after waking I've never been one of these jolly people who springs out of bed wide awake and all go. I'm slow.I mean limited brain cell activity slow.. o keeping a dream journal would be hard.
I'd also like to know the power of the subconscious mind and the positive effects of dream states. I know a lot of science delves into it, but I never hear much about it. That's odd when you think of a finally how much time we spend sleeping. You'd think they'd be teaching us stuff for it, like positive things to do and what gets best results. I go through stages of dreaming and at the moment it's been a while so I'm not sure while I'm drawn to write about it today. This isn't even a story but I just wanted to share a little.
The last thing I wanted to add was that I believe very much in the power of positive thought. Not only in influencing oneself, but others too. I think that could easily be applied to the dream state. In meditation or prayer I think thought is directed and builds energy. Most people can send or draw from that energy as they need. If they can do this in a waking state, even though to me it's like a kind of waking dream as you're resting your mind but conscious of the direction of your thoughts, then maybe it can be sonin a dream state. Your subconscious is perhaps best for doing stuff your own mind stops it from doing, it's given the freedom and potential it needs. If you're not challenging everything all the time it can do things you'd never allow, it can escape to places you'd never go, you could say things to people you'd never normally converse with. I like the idea of limitless potential it could offer...and yet how seldom a mind actually does dream so large. Why is that? As I say, I've never found myself anywhere but on Earth in my dreams so docs that mean we're all limited by our own first hand experiences?
Anyway, just my musings...but thank you if you read this far. I'm not elaborating too much on conversations or realism of where I've been etc in my dreams in case I sound too crazy, but I've never had a nightmare, and even when the worst happens and I dream my teeth drop out I know it's only a dream. I'm never deeply disturbed, and I find my dreams a great source of fun and comfort. One other thing is I'm deeply intrigued by prophetic dreams when you're told of preparing yourself for stuff that's going to happen and it docs! Nothing big like the lottery results more's the pity, but stuff like someone's going to announce they're having a baby, or someone else is not very well at all and prepare yourself for news. That really uncanny stuff, where inevitably you write it down as you really feel strongly what you're told is important, or you tell someone and it happens. It's never frightening of horrible, but it feels right so you learn to note it with limited skepticism, but you do figure it will happen when you learn to trust your instincts. It's happened a few times, and I'm always grateful for the insight.
Anyway..cheers for reading. Dream big people..we deserve it!
