Thread: Using LD's to find repressed memories

I hope I'm not Hijacking your thread but I would be pretty leary about any "memories" uncovered through dream lucidity.

In fact, I would suggest that more false memories result from people experiencing lucidity without understanding that their just dreaming lucidly.

Take all these people that get kidnapped by aliens. Ever notice how it only happens at night, after they've gone to bed? And how about that paralysis they all suffer, kind of like Sleep Paralysis, Eh?

Thats why I wouldn't really trust any memories uncovered through LD.

Another question might be, if lucid dreaminf did enduce a "repressed memory" would it be real enough to fool a psychiatrist or hypnotherapist?

hypnosis is nothing but WILD. The problem is that your subconsciousness mixes truth and imagination, so you cant take it literally.
But I´m sure it can help you to find out about repressed memories. just make sure you can deal with them.

im not sure how many people are familiar with fibromyalgia, but its an assortment of differnt diseases caused by repressed emotion. Mainly rage.
ive uncovered memories through meditation and each one that i can remember and deal with helps relieve the problems somewhat. I was just thinking it would be kind of cool if i could just relive them in my dreams.
I definitley understand the fact that you need to be ready for them, cause theyre pretty ugly things.

Originally Posted by falling2theSun

Hi there, i was wondering if anyones ever used there dreams to unlock memories. Maybe having a dream guide show you to an area where you could see memories of your life like they were on tv. At least thats how id like to imagine it happening haha. But yeah, has anyone ever done anything like this?

That sounds like an interesting idea, though my guides seem to prefer present and future to past, except once in awhile when they want to show me about something that happened to someone else... oh, like when Elizabeth Smart was found and it was in the news, I had a vivid dream showing how she had been kidnapped in the past that related to some things that came out about her in the news afterwards.

Have you ever read Brian L. Weiss, M.D.'s books on past life regression? He's a psychiatrist who stumbled onto past lives... new to him at least... while accidently telling a patient to go back to their earliest memory. He didn't specify that it be in *this* lifetime though, so the patient wandered rather farther back, to Weiss's amazement. He's pretty fascinating to read, and past life regression has become his major field of interest as a result of that patient's work with him.

The best thing you could do is ask before you go to sleep for a clear dream showing you what *really* happened at the time you wish to remember, and wait and see if it comes! I get advice on all kinds of things by doing that. I just either pray to God/dess or simply speak to my guides and ask them. Sometimes, the advice shows up in other ways too, not only in dreams, but maybe the next day, I'll hear someone talking about the very thing I wanted to know in the supermarket line or something. Or I'll turn on the tv, and the first thing up is the answer to my question. Be watchful for your answers all around you, not just in dreams.

Originally Posted by falling2theSun

im not sure how many people are familiar with fibromyalgia, but its an assortment of differnt diseases caused by repressed emotion. Mainly rage.
ive uncovered memories through meditation and each one that i can remember and deal with helps relieve the problems somewhat. I was just thinking it would be kind of cool if i could just relive them in my dreams.
I definitley understand the fact that you need to be ready for them, cause theyre pretty ugly things.

When I had come to the conclusion already from researching it that what was hurting my muscles was fibromyalgia, my mailorder book club, from whom I'd ordered a book on dreams by Robert Moss, instead sent me _The Fibromyalgia Solution_ by David Dryland, M.D. Now, I don't believe in mere coincidence anymore, but synchronicity means "meaningful coincidence." That I believe in! That book was the verification that yes, it is fibromyalgia I'm dealing with. It's been wonderful to read, especially for the lucid way in which he describes the causes and offers solutions.

The causes are more related to stress and adrenaline, really. Stress causes an adrenaline surge, and that is the main part of the problem. It's hard nowadays to avoid stress, though I do make an effort, so we also need to work on new ways to deal with it, like meditation and relaxing more fully, and online avoiding flame wars and ugliness for me, especially close to bedtime. I have always had a problem with adrenaline, so it made a lot of sense to me. My adrenaline pumps get stuck in the ON position whenever they get triggered, and then I can't sleep, and then my muscles end up killing me.

I suppose your repressed memories might be causing stress, and so related to the fibromyalgia, maybe, but I don't recall him talking about that in the book. If so, I would have thought the psychoanalysis I went through in the 70's for a clinical depression would have prevented the fibro though. We humans are wired so strangely! I think I got rid of most of my post-divorce rage in my dreams, actually. I spent several years beating my ex to a pulp in my dreams, something I could not ever actually do! He must have deserved it.

Anyway, if fibromyalgia's the problem, you might want to read Dr. Dryland's book!