Dreams

United States
March 29, 2022 6:09pm CST
Do you have control over your dreams? Are there things you can do to influence them? I've been doing an experiment, and so far, it's working. I'm abstaining from a certain activity (and plan on perhaps kicking another idea up a notch) so that my physiology can take over during my dreams, to see who shows up. So far, it has worked. Yesterday, I thought of someone, and she entered my dream. Many times, I can dissect my dreams. They're usually symbolic, and sometimes have something to do with what I did the day before. I plan on trying a lot of cause/effect to better get a handle on what goes on while I'm dreaming. I do know the key is to sleep as long as possible, since you tend you remember your dreams, but also have many of them you can remember. The two things I can't seem to do is punch someone. Someone is holding my punch back! And even when a woman I know is over, there's always something preventing us from having sex. Someone in the room... Or something like not being able to throw a punch - a physical division, or some kind of division that prevents something from happening.
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30 Mar 22
I know what you mean. Perhaps the idea you're saying is like to conjure up a dream maybe? You wish for a good dream to happen and when it finally does, the sequence is not to your liking. I think of dreams like a watercolor painting or picturesque scene, like you can't touch it or something; like a watermark effect or some sort.
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• United States
31 Mar 22
Ha, right, conjure is a better term. Part of it is allowing what happens in the possibilities/fantasies in my head. I like your watercolor analogy :)
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1 Apr 22
@PinkFloydFan Thank you.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Mar 22
When I dream about my late husband we were always very close and in my dreams it is always like he is right there with me and I can even touch and hole his hand, Waking up I can feel that he was there and just moving on until we meet in dreams again,
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
30 Mar 22
That's interesting that you cannot hurt someone in your dreams. I wonder if you could hurt yourself, in one of your dreams. I have allowed myself to be shot by an intruder once in a dream, as I knew that it was a dream, and I was curious as to what might happen. Nothing happened, as I stayed alive in that dream body, impervious to the bullet, it seemed. Our dreams usually depict and relate to our life, and so if we cannot hurt people in our real life, we will seldom hurt them in our dreams, and yet the dream comes to us, as an aspect of our future self to attempt to lead us into going in that direction too. A dream can never hurt you, as it is mere pantomime, in its teaching aspects, via this medium.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
30 Mar 22
@PinkFloydFan I jumped purposefully off of a high cliff once in a dream. I wanted to see what would happen to me in the dream. I saw myself in that dream too, as I stayed in my soul body on the top of the cliff, and I saw my other body getting shattered and destroyed on the rocks below. I usually wake up after the big event. Yes, I also hate it when, some part of me is telling me that this is not a dream, but really a reality. Sometimes, my car has been smashed up, and I think that it is real, and my mind tells me it is real, I made a big mistake in my judgement this time, and I paid the price. I am then glad to wake up, and to see that it was not really real. But, then sometimes too, even at this stage, I am still in a secondary level of the dream, and I might now be sitting in a park, on a bench, which, after a while, I realise that I am still really dreaming here too, and so I wake up a second time finally for real then too. I do not like having to pay the price, even in my waking life, it just annoys me. Yes, I never turn on the radio, or do something mundane, until I have made some brief note, about my dream to jog my memory when I write it up, more detailed later.
• United States
31 Mar 22
@innertalks Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Definitely things I haven't seen, yet. This morning, I think I turned the TV on, and then smoked, and don't remember my dream now, but sometimes I do/see something in real life that associates it with something else that was in my dream. Metaphors and associations are everywhere in my dreams. It could be something like a household thing, like a toilet once, with the top not being able to connect, and earlier that day, I had something that symbolized something going wrong, not being connected. I don't remember what it is, but it was very obvious. I don't keep journals because I almost prefer not to remember the dreams. I figure that I will remember the great dreams without needing to write anything down.
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• United States
30 Mar 22
I think I've been shot/hit, but I definitely remember falling, which is when I woke up. It seems like I wake up right before the big event. I've never seen myself in a dream. I think dreams can affect your day. A few times, I confused what happened in a dream to what happened while I was awake. And a bad dream can still give you an uneasy feeling after waking up. And great dreams kinda stink, because then you have to wake up. I hate it when during the dream, I'm telling myself, "This is NOT a dream. Previously yes, they were dreams, but not this one" over and over, and then wake up. Lots of symbolism in dreams I can trace. But if I wake up, and say turn on the TV while I go brush my teeth, it's easy to forget.
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