Learning from dreams.

[Myke Gregory]

This morning i learnt something in a dream. Too long to explain but its written in my Dream journal Just wanting to know wether YOU have learnt anything in your dreams?

[melanieb]

I've encountered a number of real world "truths" in my dreams, though most came from long-forgotten memories brought up by my dreaming mind. For example, when I was in my late twenties I saw a building that I recognized from a dream, a building I dreamed of walking in, and I recognized the building in real life while driving past it on my way to work. I assumed it was simply an image brought about by my mind pulling forth some random lost file and guessing what it might look like inside. I had never been inside the building before. I told my mother about it when I came to visit her one day, thinking it was just a neat dream. She told me that I had been in the building sometime between the ages of two and three, when my dad had some affiliation with the place. I hadn't been near that building for something like 26 years, for nearly all of my life that has conscious memory, yet my mind had found the imagery stored somewhere in my brain and accessed it. I still remain impressed. I would bet there are other images stored within that could prove very useful if only there was a reliable way to retrieve them. I would suggest this is what happened to you.

[Myke Gregory]

Wow. Thats crazy!!

[Linkzelda]

I see this is taking it to where it associates with waking life. I had dream recently where a female was guiding me somewhere in a library, but there were enough guards to make it awkward to shift from one shelf to another (hiding that is). If it were just me, I would've been more aggressive than stealthy, as I find myself doing a lot in my non-lucids related to some type of infiltration. However, I decided to rely on the female figure because it seemed she knew the guards' exact movements. I tried to talk to her, but she didn't say a single word to me, so through out the whole dream, I only said her name a few times, still no response from her. I started to get impatient because we reached a point where there's several guards at one area, so while the guard turns his back, the aggressive nature I have in my non-lucids activates. I wait for him to pass by, and decided to be foolish and whistle to see if he will get my attention, and he quickly does. Then I realized....I seriously screwed up by doing that, because when I was looking at Eva, she didn't have a weapon, and before we sneaked into the library, she looked like she took a lot of damage from someone/group of people. My emotions started to augment, because I'm the only one with the gun, so I couldn't screw this up, because I realized that she's obviously guiding me somewhere important, potentially the Akashic Records (at least my perception of it), and that itself is something I would exhibit every ounce of competence to accomplish. The guard finds both of us, alerts the other guards, and I thought that I could just shoot them in the mean time, but this random guy comes in with a shot gun....I try to shoot him, but I can't no bullets aren't coming out....then Eva gets shot. Obviously, she wasn't good to me if she was dead or near-death, so I was so angry at myself that I didn't let her guide me all the way through that the weapon I had suddenly worked, and I managed to kill every guard in the area. Problem is, even after checking and making sure things are cleared out, the dream starts to fade when I turn around to check back on Eva, who is most likely trying to endure the shotgun wound. I woke up almost crying, and I could've went into a DEILD since my body was still and my eyes were closed, but I didn't want to forget the details of this dream. What I learned from that? If it's just me in a non-lucid where I'm pitted against guards, it's okay to be aggressive and playful with them, but when it's with someone else, I have to be thoughtful on how my recklessness can can change their fate. Also, I realized that when I met Eva before sneaking into what could've been the Akashic Records, she had this enduring spirit in her, like I said before when she was degraded in a few areas, especially her hair. It was like she was the projection of how I felt in life, how I always instilled pain and worry in my life. I wanted to find her so that she would be the opposite, the projection that would be more positive, something I would strive for, but clearly, she shares the same feelings I have. If I'm sad, she will be sad, if I'm laconic, she will be laconic (which is why we didn't say anything throughout the dream). She can't be the ideal image of me being more positive in my life if I can't hold my own weight, and stop relying on her to be the ideal image if I can't be thoughtful of her position. She is me. She is my Anima. (I hope she is, because I never really cared much about others in non-lucids). That's what I learned. And that the pain of loss usually lets me have extreme dream control to where it's scary.

[littlezoe]

Once a dream figure told me in a normal dream, that by imitating hiccups i can enter lucid dreams. It sounded stupid, but when i woke up i started imitating hiccups, which put me into sleep paralysis immediately... Turns out it's an easy way to enter SP for me. I know the dream figure talked about an LD technique, but it was an SP technique after all... but still it was interesting, because i didn't think about it before

[Arch]

That's crazy, I've never learnt 'anything' from dreams. However I have had a precognitive dream where I dreamt I got 90/100 in my S1 test, 3 months later I got that mark.