The dreams of our well..........dreams. (Pardon the expression)

[DreamInsights]

Anybody hoping they will have specific dreams? Might posting here to 'DreamForum' - In the 'Rant and Rave' Forum act as "ice-breakers of sorts (dream-wise)?"

I'll start with an example of an amusing holiday related dream I hope to experience - based-on a dream I had over the holiday season a few years ago. A few years ago I had a dream of a holiday themed rug that resembled gift wrapping paper - complete with familar holiday illustrations within square paterns e.g., Santa, a snowman, a Christmas tree, a winter-scence.

I'm hoping to have a simlar dream this time. A dream which may go along the lines of: Giftwrapping paper (easily recyclable, and maintaining that new look with each reuse) whose geomteric patterns encourage that intuition to cut the paper to the correct sizes for the gifts being wrapped.

Personally, holiday-related dreams are very rare - hence dreams I've experienced from holidays past are necessary to encourage new examples.

Personally, I'm most intersted in the rather mundane, practical, even tangible dream insights - dreams of year-round interest. Such dream have been about as rare as.........holiday related dreams.

I hope to see more insightful dreams..

Pardon the expression....again: talk about "dream gifts" that keep on giving year-round!

 

[vanessa.johnson]

ok so this isnt even a dream I actually had, I just really want to have it for some reason and my brain refuses to cooperate. it keeps almost starting and then giving me something boring like a parking lot. anyway this is the dream I’m TRYING to have

I’m at one of those ice breaker round tables and everyone is being totally normal until it gets to me. I stand up and tell them my ice breaker name is Rodney and my real name is Vanessa. I say it like it’s a big reveal. nobody reacts, they just nod and wait for more.

so I start explaining how Rodney’s personality is completely different from mine. Rodney loves loud shirts and networking events and making homemade puzzles for strangers. real me does none of that and I keep switching back and forth between the two like I’m arguing with myself in public.

and while I’m doing all that I start scoop fling. like I reach back into the soil of my shorts and scoop fling across the table without breaking eye contact. scoop fling. scoop fling. over and over. like it’s part of my introduction. nobody moves. they all sit there like this is a normal feature of the exercise.

I talk about my hopes and dreams while I scoop fling from the soil like “Rodney has strong leadership qualities” scoop fling “Vanessa prefers quiet afternoons” scoop fling “I contain multitudes” scoop fling. The facilitator even writes something down like this is helpful information.

and the dream ends with me still scoop flinging like I’m keeping a rhythm for the whole group. then I wake up smiling like I actually pulled it off but no, I didn’t even get to have the dream in the first place, it’s just stuck in my head waiting to happen

 

[PaulKH]

Heh, amusing visualization, which is of course a cornerstone of creativity, and vitally important to us.

Yet since the realm of dreams is so much larger than any visualization power, I suggest a different method. You can turn on and off dream recall to some extent by a force of will (often by saying over and over again "I want to remember my dreams" as you are falling asleep, so it's the last thing you say-hear-think), and there's plenty of evidence that you can actually steer the content (or influence it, at the least). So instead of longing for a specific dream, *front-load* yourself with the kinds of thoughts and media that might prompt a dream in that category, and then unleash the creative beast in sleep to see what you get in return. Sing carols, watch Hallmark movies (if you can survive such an experience), mesmerize yourself with your own tailor-made chants about poo-flinging as a form of gift-giving, whatever you like.

For example, as I was living and breathing certain characters and dream discussions for a novel, I had an active dream of the camera panning around them, each smiling, and as the pan gets to the counselor guy, he's dressed as Santa, bright red and white beard and all! So, in accordance to what I was actually doing, I found a way to integrate that into the novel. Context/study fed into dreams and the dream realm "answered".

It's such amazing stuff that one shouldn't need to turn wistful about having a certain dream more than preparing to have-and-recall something from that category (or wildly adjacent). If you are in the right space as a dreamer, it's rare for your dreams to not deliver. So, I suggest this thread idea being: how to prepare/steer to have dreams you want (which is perhaps saying the same thing as the OP because posting here could be a good piece of that puzzle?).

 

[DreamInsights]

Imagining the dreams we want to experience is largely a conscious process - that is dreams mainly stem from the unconscious. From my own personal experiences, dreams are spontaneous (not anticipated) experiences.

Several years ago, I consulted with a therapist who was receptive to the potential insights via sleep dreams. A saying on dreams in threapy, (Pardon the expression...yet again) "One does not know what the unconscious has in mind!"

Speaking of therapists, my therapist was most intersted in clientele to step out of their comfort zones - and yes, my thearpist showed-up in several dreams. The 'DreamForum' discussion thread 'Funny Dreams' discusses dreams where my therapist asked us to step-out of our comfort zones via travel experiences.

 

[SophiaHamilton]

I keep having dreams about the world cup coming up and how i would keep getting all these free tickets. I would set up little trinkets to get the tickets for free and say hi to all my friends over and over and would also not stop talking about the world cup. I feel that since i dreamt about the world cup tickets maybe i should actually get some for free? I think

Imagining the dreams we want to experience is largely a conscious process - that is dreams mainly stem from the unconscious. From my own personal experiences, dreams are spontaneous (not anticipated) experiences.

Several years ago, I consulted with a therapist who was receptive to the potential insights via sleep dreams. A saying on dreams in threapy, (Pardon the expression...yet again) "One does not know what the unconscious has in mind!"

Speaking of therapists, my therapist was most intersted in clientele to step out of their comfort zones - and yes, my thearpist showed-up in several dreams. The 'DreamForum' discussion thread 'Funny Dreams' discusses dreams where my therapist asked us to step-out of our comfort zones via travel experiences.

This is super interesting! By the way, is your real name Dream Insights? Thanks!

 

[DreamInsights]

I keep having dreams about the world cup coming up and how i would keep getting all these free tickets. I would set up little trinkets to get the tickets for free and say hi to all my friends over and over and would also not stop talking about the world cup. I feel that since i dreamt about the world cup tickets maybe i should actually get some for free? I think

This is super interesting! By the way, is your real name Dream Insights? Thanks!

Dream Insights is just a 'Dream Forum' name.