Dreams are a window into our psyche. In the dream state, we are working out our current individual issues. Dreams provide insight into our state-of-being. They open a window between our unconscious and our conscious mind. If we want to look, learn and grew we can do so by tapping into our dreams. To sum it up, dreams deepen our self knowledge.
Everyone dreams, even if you think you don't dream you really do. People generally just remember 1% of their dreams. Almost all dreams take place during our REM sleep. We process and recover from traumatic experiences through our dream state. Often our dreams will tell us there is work to be done in recovering from a upsetting life experience. It's like a caretaker knocking at the window saying "Hello, we have a problem here, Quit sweeping this under the rug, this needs to be addressed. I will keep bringing this up until you get this resolved."
According to research, our unconscious continues to process during our waking hours in visions, daydreams and fantasies. Also, dreams consolidate life lessons and memories we have experienced to insure our survival and well being. Our dreams even open our psychic channels to our artistic expression.
If you are having trouble remembering your dreams, here are some simple tools to help you recall them:
- Sometimes simply telling yourself and setting your mind to remember your dreams upon waking will do the trick. You can set this intention just before drifting off to sleep by saying to yourself, "I intent to remember my dreams when I wake up."
- Upon waking, simply keep your eyes closed and stay in bed for several minutes, letting your dreams float into your consciousness.
- Keep a dream journal by your bed to use right upon waking when your dream is most vivid and clear.
- Both prescription and non prescription drugs can alter your dreams and/or dull dreams.
- Take advantage of sleeping in later on the weekends.
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Out of curiosity, why do you think we remember so little or few of our dreams? I know a lot of what goes on in dreams is just our unconscious sorting through the events of the day and trying to work things out. But, it seems like being able to remember more of our dreams would be beneficial... so I wonder why we don't seem to remember much.
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