Dreams Empower Your Life

My Dream Theory

I would like to reach to you for help if you do not mind?

I am very interested in a specific subject and need help from experienced lucid dreamers or persons who have experiences with dreams in general.

Basically I need help to understand if you have experienced or can relate to the statements put forth in theory 1 or theory 2.

If you have please leave a comment short or long.

If you have not it would be nice to get your feedback on what you think about the humble theories put forth.
Every contribution will be of great value for like-minded people ☺

So what do I have on my mind?

I am currently grappling with two theories that broadly speaking emphasises
- The effects of emotions created in dreams and their impact on our waken life
Theory 1 emphases that emotions from dreams affects our waken life.
Theory 2 builds of on the assumptions of theory 1 and emphasis the ability to use conscious created emotions from dreams to fulfil a personal goal(s).

Theory 1:
“Conscious or lucid dreams affects the waken emotions which consciously affects the mental state and emotions of our waken life”

Theory 2:
“We can consciously create dreams that creates specific emotions that support a desired waken mental-state. These consciously created emotions can empower us to act out a desired waken behaviour in order to fulfil a personal goal(s)“

Explanation and understanding of Theory 1
In the following I will explain the theory 1 by giving a humble example from my own experience.
I myself have often experience woken up form a positive dream or a negative dream, that I could remember but had no control of, and felt either a positive or negative mood depending on the dream.

The after-effects of the negative dream have been that I had to focus my thought on my waken state or life by remembering my current waken life situation, e.g. what activities I am currently doing at day to day basis, my relationships to friends and family or other aspects of my life, in order to get rid of the negative emotions still residing in my thoughts and feelings.

I have feel that negative emotions carried from my dream state into my waken life affects my normally positive attitude to life in the first hour upon awakening form a nights sleep. I am only consciously aware of this maximum 45-60 min. after I wake up. The faster I shift my mental focus the faster the negative emotions from my dreams disappear.

Thus I feel that negative emotions from conscious or lucid dreams affects my ability to think positive about a negative waken life problem.
As an example I could have had a fierce discussion with my partner that has not been resolved. At the moment I wake form my negative dream the emotions of this dream is actually making my negative feelings, from my waken life situation, worse than the actually is.

On the contrary I have experienced how a positive dream affects me. I feel a positive mood and the feeling of being energised and ready for the day with a positive attitude independently of my current life situation is overall negative or positive.
So if I have worrying problems in my waken life a positive dream can energise me with positive emotions and vice versa -if I have a positive life situation and wake up with positive emotions, from my dream I feel even more positive and motivated to gets started with the day.


Explanation and understanding of Theory 2
Regarding theory 2 I am currently not able to put forward personal empirical evidence that it is possible to: “consciously create dreams that creates specific emotions that support a desired waken mental-state and that these consciously created emotions can empower us to act out a desired waken behaviour in order to fulfil a personal goal(s).

At the moment I have not developed the skills to consciously take control of my dream aka. lucid dream. But I am sure you have!
I am therefore interested to hear your stories and experiences relating to one of the above theories especially theory 2.

Despite I do not have personal empirical data on this I would suggest that fields as the personal development movement and coaching movements are to some extent evidence for how creations of emotions are able to change human behaviour in our waken life. I do not have sources other than the general ideas that are prevailing in our societies today.

Assumptions regarding theory formulation
In order to put forward these humble theories I would like you to understand what assumptions they are build on. Below you will see a list of personal assumptions that the theories take point of departure in.

• Humans are able to lucid dream
• Human emotions/mental-state are controlling our behaviours
• Emotions in our dreams, lucid or not, affects our waken behaviour
• Emotions created in dreams are more or just as affect-full as emotions created in the waken state.
• The emotions developed/created in the conscious dream state will manifest in increased motivation and confidence of our abilities to act out the behaviours that will result in reaching our personal goal(s). This is based on my personal experience of both a positive mood and a negative mood thus affecting my emotion in waken life and in some instances been the basis of my day to day decision making.
• I will have to have a clear idea of how I am able to reach my personal goal. The method of attaining my personal goals will have to be explicit and known to me.

So what do you think about the theories put forth?

Kind regards
Nickolai from Denmark

I agree with 1 and 2. Dreams can effect your emotions. Especially emotions that you have for others in your life. If I dream about someone that I don't get along with IRL, but we get along together in the dream, it helps me to deal with them positively IRL. For Theory 2, again yes. I have done this specifically with people/DCs again. There was a person I didn't get along with IRL, and in a dream I messed them up, so a few nights later I went in and once lucid, I apologized to them (the point is I conciously did this and yes it did help).

I've found though, that just having a basic positive dream in some land far away really doesn't effect my mental state. It sort of raises the bar on what you can expect from life/existence, but doesn't always make you feel better.

I think your theories are correct but especially they ring true in our relationships others (at least your part of the relationship). Maybe we just don't give other's the credit they deserve, the impact they have on our lives and on our days.

With that said, I think dreams have effected the way I feel at times where I live, when I'm out. I've been in so many nice dreams where I was out on the town, that often on those nights out IRL (and after a few drinks) everything indeed begins to feel dreamlike (in the right scenarios, things similar to dreams I've had).

Edit again: Also this is a subject I am close to right now, my next efforts in dreaming I'm going to basically try to make every dream as positive as possible and just make the DCs happy and work together with them, it should rub off IRL in many good ways.

So to comment, I find that both are true, but they are specific to different Schema and perceptions, such as your mind's reaction to a specific person place or thing.