Is it possible to talk to your subconscious in a dream?

[liza]

Hiya, When i was first researching lucid dreaming i heard it could be used to access ones subconscious mind, via a dream character. The dream character is supposed to be able to tell one all about their childhood, books they've read, etc, in detail from the memories we have stored in our subconscious that are inaccessible to us. Does anybody know if this is actually possible? Id love to be able to ask my subconscious why i have certain phobias or have it explain why i have a maths block. It sounds like a super useful thing to do with lucid dreams. So yea, have any of yous any experience with this?

[JoannaB]

Yes and no, I think. Yes, you can ask, and yes, you may get a good subconscious answer to your conscious questions in a dream. But our subconscious mind is not like a well trained dog - she is more like a cat, meaning she will do whatever she pleases. And thus, if you ask about your phobias, you may get (1) a useful answer; (2) a cryptic answer which needs lots of deciphering; (3) no answer; (4) a sarcastic, ironic, humorous answer; (5) an angry answer; (6) and any other type of answer your subconscious (which is very creative) can think of and feels like giving you. So, personally, I think absolutely do ask, but the answer you get may be very different from what you expect. Also have you considered dream interpretation of your own non-lucid dreams? For deciphering the subconscious mind that is a pretty powerful tool. While you may not get answers to specific questions you consciously chose, you may get some answers to some questions you did not know you had. For example for me, my dream self-interpretation has taught me among other things that I identify with my mother more than I consciously was willing to admit - I used to consciously think that my mother and I are nothing alike, but my non-lucid dreams have taught me otherwise.

[liza]

Thanks for the answer, that would make more sense than the subconscious telling you outright i suppose. Im very interested in learning non lucid dream interpretation, but i havent really found any useful resources. I imagine it can be a very useful, enriching thing to do. Can i ask how you went about learning? :]

[Voldmer]

Im very interested in learning non lucid dream interpretation, but i havent really found any useful resources. Robert Moss, who has written lots of books about dreaming, is heavily into using dreams to learn important things (and he advocates going with the dream, rather than taking control of it and steering it in the direction preferred by ones ego). His book "Conscious dreaming" is all about that. Also, Robert Waggoners book about lucid dreaming is substantially involved with learning from dreams (but covers much more also).

[JoannaB]

My approach has been a combination of opening up my own intuition more, and looking at dreams as puzzles or mysteries assuming they have hidden meanings to be solved, but also an apprenticeship in that I keep learning from others for example superman1 who has been great in helping me understand my own dreams better. This apprenticeship has taught me a few useful tools for dream interpretation, for example: interpret other characters in a dream as representing other parts of myself, or home meaning mind, etc. I don't believe though that anything has only one meaning, both in that one person dreaming of something may mean something different than another person dreaming of it, and also every dream has more than one meaning like an onion.

[Hitokage]

I once dreamed about being in Paris and I planned to talk directly with my subconscious before going to bed. Well I remembered that in my dream so I asked someone who was near to take me to subconscious, that I would like to talk with him. (yea called it him ) That someone took me to some kind of cafeteria and there he was, my subconscious. He/she/it looked a bit like Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu, Coach Carter,..). I told him that I would like to know everything what is hidden in my subconscious and have a control of it. He started to laugh and took me to the city center to the Eiffel Tower and told me that my wish is like if I wanted to take the tower and carry it through the city on my back Hahaha it was very interesting LD.

[liza]

Thanks everyone for the advice and tips. I actually had a pretty interpretable dream last night! :]