Monthly Archives: February 2011
Shared dreaming… is it possible ?
Ive always wondered if it is possible that two lucid dreamers could share a dream, be in a dream together, meet in a dream and interact with eachother in a dream, whilst both dreamers know the dream has occurred ?
I decided to look a little into this as I have only ever came across it once, not personally but from a story I once read in a magazine.
Heres an interesting website! Lucid Crossroads
SO WHAT ABOUT SHARED DREAMING ? WHAT IS IT ?
Definition
Shared Dreaming or Mutual Dreaming mentioned by Stephen LaBerge[1] and Lynda Lane Magallon[2] is a type of dream where two or more people share the same dream content from the their own perspective. Upon waking the participants are able to recall the same details, settings and even conversations they had with each other during the mutual dream.
This is just the beginning…..
As soon as you dream…. write it down !
It’s easy to forget your dreams. In order to interpret your dreams you have to remember them, so forgetting them is a real problem. In fact, those who chronically forget their dreams tend to claim that they don’t dream. Dreams are remembered only if you wake up during, or just at the end of, a dream. But if you just turn over and fall asleep again, you’re not likely to remember a thing in the morning. So to remember a dream you have to write it down as soon as you wake up from it. It helps to keep a note pad and a pen by your bed—and tell yourself, before you fall asleep, that you want to write down any dreams you can remember that night.
Dreams: The clinical work attached to dream interpretation..
First, you need a written text of the dream. It’s best if you write it down right after you wake up from the dream. But sometimes it’s possible to remember a dream—or a dream fragment—that you haven’t written down, and so your psychotherapist can write down what you say.
Second, you have to describe thoroughly and understand your psychological associations to the various dream images. These associations must come from your personal life, not from a “dictionary” of fixed meanings. Essentially, this amounts to asking, “When you think of this particular dream image, what other things come to mind?” Dreaming of Mrs. Smith from your childhood, for example, doesn’t necessarily “mean” anything, but what you thought about Mrs. Smith when you were a child—in essence, what her life, behaviors, and values suggested to you then—might have something to say about the problems you struggle with today.
Third, you have to discover the links between all these associations. This process is a bit like those “connect the dots” puzzles that reveal a hidden picture. Psychologically, you simply need to understand what this net of associations from the dream is telling you specifically, at this precise time of your life, about your current problems and conflicts. Quite often, these associations are purely emotional; that is, you can take a particularly graphic dream image, examine your emotional reactions to it, look back into your past for times when you felt the same emotions, and then ask yourself in what way those situations from the past have any bearing on what is happening in your life now.
http://www.guidetopsychology.com/dreams.htm
Dream Text..
| To use dream material clinically—that is, in psychotherapy—we need to realize that we never use the dream itself. That might sound strange, but think about it. When you tell someone about a dream, it’s impossible to depict the jumble of images that you perceived while you were sleeping. All you can do is put the dream into words in an imperfect attempt to describe what you experienced. So, in the end, to talk about the dream you really talk about the text of your perception of the dream.
The text, of course, is language, and, as such, it’s already a form of interpretation of the raw experience. So does it even matter if the images came to you because of random electrical activity in the brain or because of that greasy pizza you ate before going to bed? Your attempt to make sense of those images, wherever they came from, can still reveal something very important about your current psychological process. |
http://www.guidetopsychology.com/dreams.htm
Marrying myself!
Stood at the altar,
Dressed in red,
In a fantasy castle.
No hair or makeup done..
Photographs being taken..
No Groom.
I marry myself…
Content 360 Application!
Thought Id try and get my foot in the door somehow with this dream machine idea! So I entered into this competition! Fingers crossed I get selected ! would be an awsome experience!
REMRAM 