Thread: If you resolve a conflict while dreaming, do you resolve it in RL?

What do you think?

What kind of conflict?

If you mean an inner conflict, such as a phobia, then yea sure why not.

If you mean a conflict between you and another person, No.

Yeah, it depends on the type of conflict. Anything that is related to self-control issues or phobias probably could be resolved, but an amputee probably couldn't grow their missing limb back.

I've found that dreams are a great place to explore and resolve inner confilcts. However, depending on how deeply disturbing and/or intrenched the problem is, it can take more than one LD confronting and working to resolve it to "fix" it for the long term.

Plus with things that scare the pants off of you IWL, yes you can use dreams to get more comfortable with them. If one of your fears is something like being eaten alive by a shark you can become less afraid of the sight of sharks, and even being in the water witrh sharks. However, if you have the bad luck of actually being bitten by a shark in waking life, it probably will still scare the crap out of you, obviously.

I don't think an amputated arm would be a conflict.. Maybe you could have some kind of acceptance issue about having an amputated arm. I could see that being the case.

Yah, I was wondering about conflicts we have between people also. Wouldn't the reason we have conflicts between people probably have something to do with ourselves?

A lot of times when someone I am often around in RL (like a family member or friend) is in one of my dreams they usually act differently. Maybe it's my mind's way of revealing to me something about that person or how I'm dealing with them?

I guess I lean towards looking at dreams in a very symbolic way rather than just random stuff created carelessly by my mind.

I sometimes wonder if the things in my waking life are just symbols for me to learn from as well.

...life is but a dream.

I agree that LDing about people you are having conflicts with in waking life can be helpful. Often, like stateofmind mentioned, the dream reveals things about myself or about the other person that I wasn't aware of that are adding to the conflict. I also like to talk to the DC of the person to practice what I might say in waking life.

I think internal conflicts can be resolved. You can also prepare. I would REALLY like to spend several lucid dreams thinking of gimmicks and ideas for my game mod, then test them out in Real-Time.