Thread: Remembering dreams out of no where.

happened to me quite a few times. i personally don't think it has any more significance than remembering childhood experiences out of the blue.

I have experienced sporadic moments of dream recall and life memories after I first started trying to WILD (at that point unsuccessfully). Basically what I did was to lie in bed and relax, waiting for something to happen. Before falling asleep and before seeing dreamlets, I experienced brief memory flashes. In the first weeks I was doing my wild attempts, I would also experience similar flashes during the day, mostly when I was preparing food. I think this has to do with relaxation + concentration. When you lie in bed you are relaxed, in the meantime you can concentrate on your breathing while preparing to ld which keeps you gently focused. This somehow makes those memories more accessible. I usually have a very clear and focused mind when cooking too. I think TV may have a similar effect on you.

By the way I don't get those memory flashes as often now, and I even miss them because they were kind of cool.

Memory flashes from dreams happen at least once, or twice a week for me.
Bit like dejavu, but the memory of dream is too long to be false.

Just to add that one general goal of dreams is to keep the ego informed about something that might need a little attention in order that it doesn’t get out of hand and maybe cause some problems down the road.

It’s a little complicated, but there is also a kind of rhythm to dreams where certain ideas that need to be looked at eventually may rise to the surface in a dream and then recede until next time, maybe months later.

So overall, your experience of watching TV and having a dream come to mind is something like sitting with a friend who out of the blue says “Could we talk?”, obviously about something that’s bothering them.

In outer life, we could say “Maybe later, alright?”, or “OK, but let me finish this program first”, or we could turn off the TV and say “OK, let’s talk”.

The problem is that, although we probably know how to speak with a friend in these situations, we don’t usually know how to approach the memory of a dream that suddenly appears.

One tip is to stop what you’re doing if you can, grab a pen and paper (or your IPad etc.) and then focus on what you can remember about the dream.

Doing this in itself causes the dream to react just like a friend would if you treated her or his request in the same way, that is, the dream would feel very free and open to “talk” about what’s going on.

Then focus on the first image from the dream (which might be setting up a location, time of year, season, etc.) and jot down every single spontaneous memory, thought and feeling that comes to mind.

The trick is not to TRY to think of something, just let anything that wants to spring to mind come forward on its own.

It takes a little practice to decide when to move onto the next image or event in the dream. The key is to stick with the actual images in the dream as much as possible and not be led off into various thoughts etc. that tend to get too far away from the central message of the dream itself.

Anyway, after then going through everything that emerged from using this method, a basic clue about the dream’s meaning will often appear, and this will often prod the dreamer to take some kind of appropriate action if possible.

Of course, this method can’t really replace in-depth knowledge of how to analyze dreams but it’s usually best to have at least some kind of solid, ongoing connection with your unconscious so that you can have a chance of being provided with a useful heads-up about something important that has to be paid some attention to.

In order to learn how to look at dreams in more depth, you may want try a very good book by Robert Johnson called “Inner Work”. And the first chapter in “Man and his Symbols”, edited by C. G. Jung, also contains very valuable information about dreams.

Just to add that our world is becoming too “compulsively extroverted” as analyst Marion Woodman puts it, and therefore we often ignore quiet fleeting memories of old dreams, or a passing emotion, or a memory of certain situations etc. etc. that come from inside us. But each of these inner events can potentially contain some very valuable and helpful information about our overall situation.

Originally Posted by Athanor

Just to add that one general goal of dreams is to keep the ego informed about something that might need a little attention in order that it doesn’t get out of hand and maybe cause some problems down the road.

It’s a little complicated, but there is also a kind of rhythm to dreams where certain ideas that need to be looked at eventually may rise to the surface in a dream and then recede until next time, maybe months later.

So overall, your experience of watching TV and having a dream come to mind is something like sitting with a friend who out of the blue says “Could we talk?”, obviously about something that’s bothering them.

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One tip is to stop what you’re doing if you can, grab a pen and paper (or your IPad etc.) and then focus on what you can remember about the dream.

Doing this in itself causes the dream to react just like a friend would if you treated her or his request in the same way, that is, the dream would feel very free and open to “talk” about what’s going on.

Then focus on the first image from the dream (which might be setting up a location, time of year, season, etc.) and jot down every single spontaneous memory, thought and feeling that comes to mind.

The trick is not to TRY to think of something, just let anything that wants to spring to mind come forward on its own.

It takes a little practice to decide when to move onto the next image or event in the dream. The key is to stick with the actual images in the dream as much as possible and not be led off into various thoughts etc. that tend to get too far away from the central message of the dream itself.

Anyway, after then going through everything that emerged from using this method, a basic clue about the dream’s meaning will often appear, and this will often prod the dreamer to take some kind of appropriate action if possible.

A very good point, Athanor and also great advice on how to approach this issue to actually work with your dreams! I sometimes take brief notes when I have a real memory flash, then go back and examine it, but for some reason it never occurred to me to apply the same approach to dreams. Thanks for sharing!

Do you meditate NyxCC?

*Moved to Dream Signs and Recall

Yes

Very well explained! Thanks mate!