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Originally Posted by MissWilly
What do you guys think dreams are about? I used to believe they were just your mind's way of expelling the day's extraneous images and events (i.e. you watch a Nightmare on Elm Street movie, Freddy shows up in your dream), but sometimes, I wonder if it isn't your mind's way of using current images to tell you something about yourself or what you just don't want to face.
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My theory is it dreaming is a way of the subconscious thinking outloud. Normally your conscious has its way with thinking when your awake, but when you go to sleep this overiding ceases and you as a conscious entity experience the world according to your unconscious. Sometimes 'you' can intrude on the thought processes of your unconscious and lucid dreaming occurs, the extent of which varies.
Dreaming accordingly doesn't have to make sense, how many thoughts a day do you have that are coherent and perfectly normal compared to the random crap that goes on? It is perfectly reasonable for it to point out things you won't or can't understand normally.
If you want to remember your dreams, lay in bed for a few minutes each morning and think about them. They need to be moved from your unconscious to your conscious, from where they can be stored in memory. I have had dreams that can put me for spare the entire day, the deep rooted meaning embedded has literally had me in a daze as i try to make sense of it all.
As for recurring dreams, i don't have recurring dreams as such, more recurring elements. Often when i try to run i don't go any faster and i have to drag myself along by my hands. I also can scream and shout, call 999 e.t.c but no-one will listen or i can never get through (though i know the root of this aspect, unlike the running one). Never any fucking good recurring elements, just the bad ones
When your falling asleep, see if you can catch yourself starting to dream. The portion of sleep when you just start to slip under is, apart from REM, the dreaming bit (this is where people sleep walk, as dreaming occurs by the paralasing effect of REM isn't present) in your sleep cycle. It is great fun for me to suddenly be transported from my bed into dream land, here i get the best chance of lucid control.
Change up what you eat and drink before bed. Lactose gives me the most random un-fun dreams, oranges and other citrus fruits gives me nightmares and tequila makes them all about sex (but beer just kills them). Think of things that change your digestive processes, such as excess acids, foods that cause bloating, foods that go right through you, or foods with high transit times (such as heavy fats). Since i started drinking water before bed.my dreams have perked upl