Explore the Power of Sleep and Dreams
…and how to start dreaming again. So you haven’t had any dreams for a while? Do you feel like you’re being shut off from creativity, making you feel dull? That’s probably not true, at least as far as the part about not dreaming. You’re probably just not remembering your dreams. There are a couple of…
It’s not at all widely talked about, but did you know your dreams can help heal you? Whether or not you remember them, they can help heal you mentally and emotionally (sleep is always good). If you remember them and work with them, however, they can do so much more for you. What a healing…
Your alarm goes off, and you wake up suddenly. You get up, and you’ve got somewhere to go. The dream fades. You wake up wondering what time it is. How much longer do you have to sleep? You look at the clock on your phone or on the nightstand. The dream fades. Your bed partner…
Question: What do news reports, professional reports, certain types of poems, lyrics, and short stories all have in common? Answer: Frameworks. Sometimes referred to as formats or templates, frameworks are essential to taming a flow of information. Dreams are a type of information. A framework helps organize the information so you can understand it and…
When you develop an interest in meteorology, you look up at the clouds. When you see a formation you’ve never seen before, you may snap a picture. When you develop an interest in botany, you find yourself looking down at the ground at the different plants. When you find a new leaf, you might take…
No hobby’s cheaper to explore and have than dream journaling. Dream journaling is the champion when it comes to that and the potential to make and save you money, and it’s not even close. You can find a pen or pencil and a free notebook somewhere. Get that, and that’s all you need to begin…
If you keep a dream diary for a while and try to understand each dream you recover, you’ll soon realize not every dream has a deeper meaning. Not every dream illuminates some insight into the subconscious. Sometimes a dream illustrates a slice of out of your life from the near-present or the past. But sometimes…
You might not have your lighted pen handy. You might not have your dream journal available, and there’s nothing else to write on that’s available. You might have a spouse or partner next to you in bed. Turning the bedside light on to write your dream down wouldn’t be kind, especially if they have something…
The question in the headline isn’t easy to answer. There are a lot of different opinions and only a few points of consensus. Here’s one definition: Dreams are a phenomena that happens primarily when sleeping, whether remembered or not. They’re a type of communication between the subconscious mind and the conscious. This communication can take…
In a previous post, I compared several weeks of my dream journal to Blue Opossum’s. He responded to the April 12 blog post by e-mail. Blue Opossum is a metacognitive dreamer, meaning he’s aware of a whole lot of his dreams, far more than most people. There are misconceptions in your post, but that is…