the dream state is an interesting place. i have been plagued with nightmares for the majority of my life and spent a lot of time attempting to understand why, and what they mean. after delving through various schools of thought and approaches to dream diagnosis, i have learned a number of things -
1) dreams are essentially your brain defragmenting. dumping all the files out on the floor and attempting to sort them.
2) through extensive training of the mind, you can exert an amount of conscious control over your dreams.
for example - as a call center agent, i used to get angry callers in my dreams that demanded i fix their problems. problems that operated on dream logic and had no real solution. eventually i learned how to ask them to "call back during operational hours" and the dreams stopped.
3) expanding on that, if you teach your mind to look at a clock when a dream starts getting weird, it will likely boot you out of the dream. the subconscious mind tends to not interpret abstract concepts such as time, or even written language.
4) freudian dream analysis is bullshit, not everything symbolizes penis.
5) everything that happens in a dream is subjective. these things are all YOUR interpretation of people or events and may be vastly different from what they are in the waking world. this is why other people will rarely make sense of your dreams, they don't have the same interpretation of it.
if you really want to know what's going on in the subconscious mind, i recommend this book.
it takes a different approach to understanding dreams that makes a lot of sense to their subjective nature. even things that seem arbitrary, like colors and numbers, tend to symbolize something... and having a way to interpret that can help quite a bit.
the dream state is an interesting place. i have been plagued with nightmares for the majority of my life and spent a lot of time attempting to understand why, and what they mean. after delving through various schools of thought and approaches to dream diagnosis, i have learned a number of things -
1) dreams are essentially your brain defragmenting. dumping all the files out on the floor and attempting to sort them.
2) through extensive training of the mind, you can exert an amount of conscious control over your dreams.
for example - as a call center agent, i used to get angry callers in my dreams that demanded i fix their problems. problems that operated on dream logic and had no real solution. eventually i learned how to ask them to "call back during operational hours" and the dreams stopped. /Y6WoMIu
3) expanding on that, if you teach your mind to look at a clock when a dream starts getting weird, it will likely boot you out of the dream. the subconscious mind tends to not interpret abstract concepts such as time, or even written language.
4) freudian dream analysis is bullshit, not everything symbolizes penis.
5) everything that happens in a dream is subjective. these things are all YOUR interpretation of people or events and may be vastly different from what they are in the waking world. this is why other people will rarely make sense of your dreams, they don't have the same interpretation of it.
if you really want to know what's going on in the subconscious mind, i recommend this book.
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it takes a different approach to understanding dreams that makes a lot of sense to their subjective nature. even things that seem arbitrary, like colors and numbers, tend to symbolize something... and having a way to interpret that can help quite a bit.
