11-02-2014, 12:00 AM
Mornings Son wrote:
Looking back at your life, could there be any event where you have been surrounded by enemies (teeth)?
Is you dreams pointing to recap that must be done?
Do you have a dream diary beside your bed and do you use it right when you wake up?
Writing down your intend before lie down to sleep and dream, helps me to get a better recall.
I do not believe that the teeth and other halucinations at night are a direct result of any trauma. According to my mother I have been spooked by 'teeth' at night ever since I was about three years old (not a lot of time for many traumatic events to have occured) and it is not always teeth per se, but something that looks dangerous.
On the dream journal; ever since I read that Don Juan teased Castaneda about his journal labeled 'My Dreams' I never bothered. There is so much floatsom and junk in most dreams I never saw the advantage. Remembering, however I think is really important. Memory is the bridge between dreaming and waking life.
That is perhaps why really good recapitulation is helpful. A lot of dreams are semi-lucid now. My best shot at dreaming recently came after a day I had really concentrated on recalling details in recapitulation - amazing how we cannot even remember what we had for breakfast two days ago! We walk around in waking life in a mostly unaware fog, and so it is in dreaming.
This is ironic and funny. For two nights I have had dreams where I realize 'this is ridiculous, this isn't supposed to happen', but I forgot to look at my hands. In fact in one of them it was as if a house had landed on another and merged with it. As if one house fell from the sky catty corner to the other, and rested perfectly well on the original's foundation. I wandered around inside the house (houses), I could go from the living room of the original into the bedroom of the off-center house, and different people were in the rooms. I remember trying to figure out how the hell this could be real. In one room there was someone in there that I actually talked to about dreaming. But I never made the damn connection and realized I was in a dream, forgot to look at my hands. *facepalm*
Maybe there are some other memory devices that can help.
So close for two nights.
Never tried the sage thing (I associate it with a particular airy fairy hippy chick I know so I am prejudiced against it therefore it may not work for me). Is sage really helpful though? Would sweetgrass work?
I am so impatient. I realize long dryspells are natural and it took a couple of years to be able to look at my hands for the first time since I was introduced to the concept. I'll get it.
Looking back at your life, could there be any event where you have been surrounded by enemies (teeth)?
Is you dreams pointing to recap that must be done?
Do you have a dream diary beside your bed and do you use it right when you wake up?
Writing down your intend before lie down to sleep and dream, helps me to get a better recall.
I do not believe that the teeth and other halucinations at night are a direct result of any trauma. According to my mother I have been spooked by 'teeth' at night ever since I was about three years old (not a lot of time for many traumatic events to have occured) and it is not always teeth per se, but something that looks dangerous.
On the dream journal; ever since I read that Don Juan teased Castaneda about his journal labeled 'My Dreams' I never bothered. There is so much floatsom and junk in most dreams I never saw the advantage. Remembering, however I think is really important. Memory is the bridge between dreaming and waking life.
That is perhaps why really good recapitulation is helpful. A lot of dreams are semi-lucid now. My best shot at dreaming recently came after a day I had really concentrated on recalling details in recapitulation - amazing how we cannot even remember what we had for breakfast two days ago! We walk around in waking life in a mostly unaware fog, and so it is in dreaming.
This is ironic and funny. For two nights I have had dreams where I realize 'this is ridiculous, this isn't supposed to happen', but I forgot to look at my hands. In fact in one of them it was as if a house had landed on another and merged with it. As if one house fell from the sky catty corner to the other, and rested perfectly well on the original's foundation. I wandered around inside the house (houses), I could go from the living room of the original into the bedroom of the off-center house, and different people were in the rooms. I remember trying to figure out how the hell this could be real. In one room there was someone in there that I actually talked to about dreaming. But I never made the damn connection and realized I was in a dream, forgot to look at my hands. *facepalm*
Maybe there are some other memory devices that can help.
So close for two nights.
Never tried the sage thing (I associate it with a particular airy fairy hippy chick I know so I am prejudiced against it therefore it may not work for me). Is sage really helpful though? Would sweetgrass work?
I am so impatient. I realize long dryspells are natural and it took a couple of years to be able to look at my hands for the first time since I was introduced to the concept. I'll get it.