Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Dreams can help you make good decisions in any number of areas. Deciding who to marry is no exception. As we sleep, we mull over the events of the day, processing information. Paying attention to your dreams sheds light on this information. By analyzing and understanding your dreams, you understand more about yourself and more…
Sure, you can study your dreams, but you can’t scientifically study your dreams. Your dreams are still worth studying, just as it’s worth looking at your face in a mirror every morning. The mirror shows you a reflection of your external self. The dream shows you a reflection of your interior self, potentially an even…
No self-development author is ever going to tell you to “be your own self-development coach.” That will upset their business model that usually consists of selling you books and seminars. Further, it’s assumed by many that you can’t do this. The consequence of this belief pretty much means you’ll be a slave to others’ thoughts…
After “what happened,” one question is almost always important to ask about your dream. Here it is: “How did it make you feel?” Were you happy? Sad? Anxious? Relaxed? Or something else? The answer will color your interpretation of every other symbol that comes up in your dream. Sometimes it’s a natural question. You’ll wake…
Q: A girl I went out on a second date with told me that she had a dream where we were married and that we had a couple of kids together? She said that she didn’t want to get married right now, that she just thought that it was a weird, interesting dream. I don’t…
Ideas don’t have to be complex to be powerful. Rather, they have to be acted upon. They must be tried. The idea has got to be taken from the page into practice. Product of your environment Do you know anyone who has beat the odds growing up? They come from the kind of place where…
It’s understandable why someone would want to take some kind of dream analysis shortcut. Quicker is usually better. It’s “efficient.” But not in this case. People wake up in the morning. There’s a rush to get everything done. Get breakfast. Get to work. Sometimes they’ve made a promise to themselves to go to the gym…
When you’re faced with a tough dilemma, it’s easy to go back and forth, hemming and hawing, perplexed. Both sides of the issue can make sense. Both sides look pretty good—or are equally repellent. Positives and negatives? Well, they weigh out almost the same. You can see the sense of both options (or, in some…
Nobody, I mean nobody, wants to be around an obnoxious person. There’s nothing to recommend hanging out with them. They’re loud or seem that way. They’re out for themselves. They don’t listen. They don’t even really see you as another person. You’re a means to an end. Unless there’s another compelling reason to have them…
When you keep a dream journal for a while—and take the time to understand the dreams—you’ll note that sometimes two or more consecutive dreams are related. On the surface, they may or may not have the same subjects. Rather, it’s the meaning or the category that’s related. It’s not unlike a series of lectures from…
Find yourself waking up angry because of a dream? Don’t let it go! Don’t forget it. Go on, write it down! We might do something only because it makes sense to do it. We brush our teeth, for example, because we want to avoid cavities. It makes sense to avoid cavities. They’re painful and…
The first few lines of the dream journal entry read like a list: A park in summer with a bandstand. The Beach Boys song “When I Grow Up to Be a Man” playing in the background (The bandstand was empty. Neither the Beach Boys nor any other band was playing in the bandstand. The song…
In your dreams, you can and will explore alternate scenarios—even if you rarely do so when you’re awake. It’s a good idea to be ready for it. Otherwise, when it happens, it can throw you for a loop. You/I can’t think that. It’s wrong. It doesn’t work that way. That’s stupid. You’ve got to hurry.…