Thread: Interesting.

You dream more than you think.

Your mind just erases dreams after each sleep cycle (you have 4 or more each night, depending on how long you sleep, about one every 90 minutes).

Keeping a dream journal, you can see common themes/aspects/occurences in your dreams, and learn to look out for them, so that when you are dreaming, you're more likely to go "hey, that's what I see when I'm dreaming. I must be dreaming", or such.

Also, of course, doing reality checks, looking out for anything weird, or even things that are common in dreams. Teaching yourself to do this is important, and in combination with increasing your general awareness of your surroundings, you'll teach yourself to look out more, so that when you are dreaming, you have the sort of analysis skills on the dream level, that enable you to become lucid.

Of course, this is what I've learned, so far, and, like you, I still have a long way to go.
There is a lot more to it. Many techniques to learn, etc.

http://www.dreamviews.com/

It really pays to read ALL of the material on the main page (tabs on the left). You can finish it in about 10 minutes, reading it thoroughly, unless you read slowly.

ANYWAY, learning to lucid dream, you can definitely acquire the skills to better deal with, confront, or manipulate (if you so choose) any dreams, especially the "bad", nightmarish ones.

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Ganbatte ze!

(Thank you!)

I was just thinking thought... the dreams i remember i remember perfectly. i can remember dreams i had when i was 3 years old. Every texture, every smell.

I remember one dream where i was in my crib and an arm with a black silk like substance hanging from the back of it. I was studying it from my crib watching it move. At first it didn't seem aware of me, but then it stopped moving. As did I. Suddenly it started floating. It was very slowly moving at me. Luckily i had my toy lightsaber in my crib with me (I loved that thing!!!) I remember i held it by the beam (plastic beam of course) and swung the handle at the hand. Then it came at me with blinding speed and the dream ended. Then there was this one dream i had, you know how some people have dreams where they cant run? I had a dream where not only could i barely run but there were zombies chasing me, when i yelled? Nothing came out.


I just find it so weird that i can remember some dreams so vividly and yet i dream more then i know.

I also find it intriguing that i can't tell if its a dream even when everything is impossible.