I would like to take this opportunity to correct a dreaming misconception that has been getting passed around like a bad STD. Mainly the role that belief plays in dreams.
They way in which belief shapes dreams is very much misunderstood, or at the very least inaccurate.
People are always saying if you want something to work in dreams, you have to believe it will work. This is not the case at all.
Last night I had a dream where I snuck a ride in the back of an old lady's van. Didn't seem like she was capable of noticing me, she was barely aware enough to drive. And just as I thought to myself "There is no way she's going to notice me", she turned around, saw me and freaked.
Later in the same dream, while running from the cops, I hid in a house, only to hear the home owner enter. Again I thought to myself "There is no way this house could belong to the old lady from earlier". I totally believed it, the odds of that happening (in my mind) were astronomical. But sure enough, in walks the poor traumatized lady, who gets even more freaked out finding me in her house.
In both instances, I truly believed certain things weren't going to happen, and yet they did. My belief had zero effect. In fact the exact opposite of what I believed happend!
In my particular case, I was using my beliefs combined with negatives. She's not going to look at me, this is not going to be her house. Those negatives have no effect whatsoever on dreams. The events that unfolded happened because I had invoked the image of what I didn't want to happen, and that's what I got. Had nothing to do with belief.
If believing has any effect on dreams, then it's from belief systems, and those systems are more important than the actual belief. If you want something to happen, you need to invoke a system that contains that which you want to make happen. This can be done simply by thinking about it.
So stop telling people to believe to make dreams work. Believe me, you're not doing anyone any favors by repeating stuff like that.
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