Your mood during dreams

[Wolfjk]

Hi Dale,

Wolfjk, you said our dreams are there to protect the dreamer. But how can a nightmare protect anyone? When you wake up with your heart racing a mile a minute and fear running through your whole being... how can that be helpful? Personally, I'd rather be woken up more gently

Nightmares usually happen when there is some danger in sleep. Very often nightmares happen in very fast time – probably in reflex action time – to wake the sleeper from a cramp or a coughing fit, acid reflux, vomiting and in a slower time when the arms or legs go to sleep, or breathing becomes difficult. The subconscious tries to make the waking as smooth as possible, but it is sometimes traumatic. There is a structure and very interesting anatomy to a nightmare and to dreams in general. Incase of a nightmare the subconscious mind has to raise the level of consciousness, next it introduces a threatening figure or idea, and only if it is absolutely necessary it carries out the threat that wakes the sleeper. On waking, the sleeper often feels dream was real and looks around for the threatening figure, without realizing there was any danger in sleep.

I've always thought that dreams are controlled by our personalities, attitudes, health, and what we had for dinner. Still I hoped that there were such things as true prophetic dreams

I think dreams encompass all aspects of human nature, however prophetic dreams are limited by the laws of the universe. Times arrow points one way only: forward and we have stay behind it.

I may start meditating. I've been told that meditating helps you to remember your dreams.

Meditating is a good idea, however I think you should empty your mind and try to imagine nothingness. If you try to meditate with an aim in mind it will not work too well. I think dreams do their work while they are actually happening and remembering them is a waste of mental energy. That is the reason we remember so few. The best nights sleep iswhen you wake up and see the tail end of a dream dissapear into oblivion.
Cheers Wolfjk

[Dale]

Wolfjk, I have another eye surgery on Friday which will prevent me from being on here for a few days. I want to read your past discussions about dreams.

Its probably not possible to know what is going on in the future, but still the mind is a powerful energy. How do we know that while sleeping our mind is not connected to some universal force that permits it.

You have probably heard the theory that we are standing in the middle of this huge circle. A few gifted people are able to go from the center outward and enter another time even while awake, and that all people do it in their sleep. I don't know how to explain what I mean, but you probably get the picture. That is supposedly how we can look into the future.

Please don't laugh at me. I just wanted to throw that out to see what you think about it.
Dale

[Wolfjk]

Hi Dale
I hope your surgery goes well. I think today’s medics are brilliant. I had an operation on my hand two months ago and there’s hardly a mark left.

Its probably not possible to know what is going on in the future, but still the mind is a powerful energy. How do we know that while sleeping our mind is not connected to some universal force that permits it.

I too get the feeling that the subconscious mind is far superior to the conscious one we use in waking life. Sometimes the two overlap and some deep thinkers seem to get a glimpse of eternity.
I don’t
Know if you read or studied hypnotism; in regression experiments the subconscious mind of the hypnotized person knows what the hypnotist wishes to hear and can weave a fantastic tale to satisfy him or her.

You have probably heard the theory that we are standing in the middle of this huge circle. A few gifted people are able to go from the center outward and enter another time even while awake, and that all people do it in their sleep. I don't know how to explain what I mean, but you probably get the picture. That is supposedly how we can look into the future.

Throughout history every race of people had their own wise men who gave direction to the future-not always the right ones. Today we have the scientists and philosophers. Most of the insights happen in the conscious state, However the level of consciousness encompasses the whole of human existence. In times of crisis some individuals reach a very high level of consciousness. In sleep the construction of dreams point to a superior intelligence. Whether it is the same as the waking one or the waking one obscures it is a critical point. Everything points to some sort of duality. Perhaps some day we will be able to go from one to the other at will.
Cheers Wolfjk