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I'm posting this in the beginners section because I feel it is most applicable here, and will provide the most benefits for newer members.
Let's get started! So a while ago, I saw a TV show with a dream analyst speaking and she was talking to people about their recurring dreams, and interpreting them in their literal meaning. Eventually, this analyst went on to explain the significant power dreams have on your conscious life. While I had known this was always true, this woman piqued my curiosity and away I went... to research!
While many theories talk about the possible meanings of why we dream, and what dreams actually are, many seem to agree that dreams are bits of your conscious thoughts manifesting into emotion, feelings, and images during sleep. Sleep as we all know also plays a vital role in our hormonal levels, and returns us to homeostasis after a challenging or even relaxing day.
Freud believed dreams were our unconscious desires, motivations, and thoughts represented and presented both through and by images, colors, shapes, emotions, and etc. Other famous psychologists have suggested that dreams are the result of internal body system (limbic, nervous, and sympathetic nervous systems) all arousing and acting thus causing certain areas of our brain (hippocampus, amygdala,) and emotions to become active which are then manifested into our thoughts during sleep returning us to homeostasis.
Anyway, to the bread and butter of this post. Our dreams have been found to influence our lives because they are a way to expose our repressed thoughts/fears to us. Dreams have also been found to have links to events in our lives, as well as conscious desires we have. That being said, you are able to use your desires to motivate your brain via sleep. Right before laying down for sleep, you can meditate over a concept of yourself, or a desire you have for yourself (get better with women, lose weight, etc) for a few minutes before sleeping and that concept will manifest itself in your dream. Scientists havent exactly found out why, (and my theory is, its your conscious thought rerouting neural connections in your brain during sleep to cause conscious motivation during an unconscious state) but your desires during pre-sleep meditation will lead to conscious motivation. Thus, after doing this for a short while, you will suddenly find motivation to approach women, or motivation to not eat, or motivation to exercise. Whatever the case may be, your pre sleep mediated desires will have a direct link to your conscious motivation.
Happy dreaming fellas,
Richard
Let's get started! So a while ago, I saw a TV show with a dream analyst speaking and she was talking to people about their recurring dreams, and interpreting them in their literal meaning. Eventually, this analyst went on to explain the significant power dreams have on your conscious life. While I had known this was always true, this woman piqued my curiosity and away I went... to research!
While many theories talk about the possible meanings of why we dream, and what dreams actually are, many seem to agree that dreams are bits of your conscious thoughts manifesting into emotion, feelings, and images during sleep. Sleep as we all know also plays a vital role in our hormonal levels, and returns us to homeostasis after a challenging or even relaxing day.
Freud believed dreams were our unconscious desires, motivations, and thoughts represented and presented both through and by images, colors, shapes, emotions, and etc. Other famous psychologists have suggested that dreams are the result of internal body system (limbic, nervous, and sympathetic nervous systems) all arousing and acting thus causing certain areas of our brain (hippocampus, amygdala,) and emotions to become active which are then manifested into our thoughts during sleep returning us to homeostasis.
Anyway, to the bread and butter of this post. Our dreams have been found to influence our lives because they are a way to expose our repressed thoughts/fears to us. Dreams have also been found to have links to events in our lives, as well as conscious desires we have. That being said, you are able to use your desires to motivate your brain via sleep. Right before laying down for sleep, you can meditate over a concept of yourself, or a desire you have for yourself (get better with women, lose weight, etc) for a few minutes before sleeping and that concept will manifest itself in your dream. Scientists havent exactly found out why, (and my theory is, its your conscious thought rerouting neural connections in your brain during sleep to cause conscious motivation during an unconscious state) but your desires during pre-sleep meditation will lead to conscious motivation. Thus, after doing this for a short while, you will suddenly find motivation to approach women, or motivation to not eat, or motivation to exercise. Whatever the case may be, your pre sleep mediated desires will have a direct link to your conscious motivation.
Happy dreaming fellas,
Richard
